jolasean
joxean sagastizabal · hordago
It was the most successful book in our school’s library. Then, “Kappo” by Aristi arrived and so we started to love literature physically. That is, we turned to page 114 and shook our hand between our legs. However, “Jolasean” was the pioneer. This was the book that showed us we were not children anymore and that we were turning into horny teenagers. And, by the way, this fast and funny book taught us to abandon “Nikolas Txiki”” on the shelf, and so we learnt there were other kinds of books.
blankets
craig thompson · astiberri
Some time ago, on the shelves of a comic shop we found a little treasure of the drawer Craig Thompson, “Goodbye Chunky Rice”. Now we can find the comic “Blankets” of the same drawer. This is almost a 600 page comic and it is at the top level among the autobiographic comic novels, which are lately more and more spread. Apart from being very well drawn, the themes stimulate everybody. However, the author gets an almost perfect narrativity by profiting the resources of the comic. He has achieved a way to make a living from the 9th art. It is worthwhile.
Marta Cárdenas
Oinarriak · Koldo Mitxelena
We rarely take a look at exhibition catalogues. If we receive them as a present we just take a fast look and leave them in our home library per secula seculorum . And if we are not offered one... Do you know anybody who buys exhibition catalogues? This is worthwhile. Here we find rough draft notebooks by the painter Marta Cárdenas. This precious and particular catalogue offers a way to see and taste the development of her work. A simple and complete work. A masterpiece on its own.
Sei pertsonaia autore bila
Luigi Pirandello. Itzulpena: Josu Zabaleta · Elkar/ Alberdania
Drama within drama. A double feeling arises with this book. On one hand, as we read it, we want to see this special play performed. We would like to know how the text that gathers different levels would be played on stage. On the other hand, we might be afraid of how much the characters and situations that we imagined when reading the play would lose or gain when they took on human form. Certainly, this fear comes because we are not used to reading drama. Pirandello’s could be a book that helps us overcome this lack.