Posts by Josep Carles Laínez
Memorial
A liturgical performance carried out at the so-called Piedra del Letrero, in the municipal area of Caudiel (Castellón), located on the ancient Roman (or pre-Roman) road that linked this village with Gaibiel. In complete nudity, with rhythms created by two stones and using as lyrics of the chant an Iberian text found in the Serreta…
Read MoreArchangel’s Appeal (experimental poetry)
Archangel’s Appeal was published by John M. Bennet in Columbus, Ohio. And I don’t know to what extent it’s a book of mine. The printer of my office computer broke down and had to be thrown away, but before that, it spat out four sheets with texts in a non-human language. It was revealed to…
Read MoreLost Film Work
The first half of the ’90s of the last century was the time for the first film projects…, and for absolute failures. I failed to complete any of them, but elements have survived from all that enable the memory of those video tests, voluntaristic, without means or budget, and practically without professional actors; none were…
Read MoreCom s’esdevé pagà
I met Lorenzo Banfi in Valencia, sometime in the 1990s, at a meeting of European nationalist movements. We talked about the actions they were developing in Milan and the language of Lombardy, and the future prospects compared to those of Valencia. Those were pleasant days of which I remember above all a dinner in a…
Read MoreEl borinot futboliste / Eth braulon futbolista
I wrote this story in one sitting one afternoon in Caudiel. In El borinot futboliste animals are once again the protagonists. The illustrator, Carlos Cuesta Dolz, was contacted by the singer and artist Toni de l’Hostal to inaugurate with him this new collection of Òc-Valéncia, “Joan Petit”, of full-color volumes in bilingual Valencian/Aranese edition. Having…
Read MoreFragments nocturns
Although I wrote these notebook entries in 2013, perhaps some of them date back much earlier than that year. In any case, they form part of my Tabularium project because I didn’t write them from the distance of everyday life, but rather while immersed in it, and they belong to a strange period of my…
Read MoreAs parolas desentas
“As parolas desentas”[Las palabras exentas] [“The Exempt Words”] gathers a series of reflections on language and literature in Aragonese. I consider them part of my diaries because I do not think of them outside of everyday experience. They are not aphorisms; they are notes of existence for those for whom the act of creating texts…
Read MoreCércol llàcteu de Coral
“Cércol llàcteu de Coral” [“Coral’s Milky Circle”] are seven annotations from March 2023, corresponding to a strict week. In the background, the work on the photographs for my exhibition Ipsissima Lux (inaugurated in Albacete on June 2, 2023). For reasons that escape me, I “chose” to write these diary entries in Valencian, but in a…
Read MoreMetaValéncia. Articles 1994-2022
A collection of 45 opinion articles published in various newspapers. Almost three decades of ideas, bad temper, and attempts to raise an alternative building to the one imposed on us. The title refers to the fact that in the pages of this book there are texts about sister lands (Andorra, Catalonia, and Occitania), and, of…
Read MoreDel bosque, no se sale
Spanish translation of Del bosc, no se n’ix. I carried it out by myself with enough fidelity to the original, although adding and revising, it is evident, idea and prose. The volume contains my story with the same illustrations of its Valencian predecessor, although here they are colored. The entire second part is an extraordinary…
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