Posts by Josep Carles Laínez
Los siervos están cansados (los señores también)
I met Alain Brossat in Tirana, on the occasion of the congress on populisms that took place at the state university of the Albanian capital in April 2012, and then we met again in Paris. Philosopher and great connoisseur of the world of cinema, the possibility arose of publishing in Spain this text, which is…
Read MoreLa nieve cae sobre Propercio
These diary fragments, written in Spanish, are part of the winter of 2015 in Encamp, and have a dark and oracular tone that transforms them into something different: into anathema. “La nieve cae sobre Propercio” [Snow Falls on Propertius], in Clarín, 129 (May-June, 2017), pp. 63-71. 63-71.
Read MorePiscina
Written between La Pobla de Farnals and Encamp during the months of July and August 2015, these are fragments of the diary in Spanish of those days in which there was a unique theme in my evenings and in my writing: that of a summer fascination for a young body, and the impossible desire to…
Read MorePalabres espardíes
These “Palabres espardíes” [Palabras esparcidas], scarce, practically gather all my diaristic material written in Asturian between 2007 and 2010, and that in some cases had nourished an ephemeral and almost clandestine blog titled Palabres perdíes pa Dánae L. “Palabres espardíes” [Scattered Words], in Lliteratura, 32 (May, 2016), pp. 17-20. 17-20.
Read MoreTres ensayos mormones
The present book gathers three studies on Mormonism written in Spanish. Two of them are focused on Joseph Smith: the first one I published in issue 106 of Debats magazine (2010) and aims to be a biographical approach to his figure, putting it in relation to the European tradition; the second one is a reflection…
Read MoreApartment Life
José Luis García Martín published in Clarín my article “Apartment Life,” with the brief notes of the summer of 2014, written in Spanish. The title refers to the album of the same name by the New York band Ivy, which illuminated my decade of the 90s, and which I listened to quite a lot during…
Read MoreEl paganismo explicado a los niños
Paganism has never died, and paganism is the religion of Europe. With these two premises, this book presents to parents and children the main vectors of a faith that, despite the attempts of destruction it has suffered for two millennia, has never disappeared from Europe, and has been maintained in different places, under strange forms,…
Read MoreCuadernu gris de 2012
This title, “Cuadernu gris de 2012” [Gray Notebook of 2012], gathers the notes written in the Asturian language, in a gray notebook, around 5:30-6:30 in the morning, over several weeks. Given their cohesion, I decided to publish them without mentioning the date on which they were written. “Cuadernu gris de 2012” [Gray Notebook of 2012],…
Read MoreCartas a Emilio Gascó Contell
This volume collects my meticulous edition of 23 unpublished letters, with their facsimile reproduction and an introductory study, sent by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928) to the Valencian writer and editor Emilio Gascó Contell (1898-1974). They belong to the years 1925-1927, that is to say, to the last stage of the life of the author of…
Read MoreThule
With Thule, I once again won the Theatre Award of the Academy of the Asturian Language in the 2008 edition. It is the third of the plays that are part of my “Tetraloxía del silenciu” [Tetralogy of Silence]. In it, two actors, playing six different characters, face loneliness and the limit in different contexts related…
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