Maruja Torres has written a book as urgent as a report, but also funny, biting and controversial with the best style marujil. I don’t know if he’s exaggerating, but it doesn’t seem like he’s lying. You don’t do stupid things when you write the “final provisions.”
When I interviewed Juan Tallón a few weeks ago, He told me he writes books very quickly. because he is afraid of dying with the work half done. Maruja also wrote The more people die, the more I want to live. quickly, in a year, I don’t know if with fear but certainly with the pleasure of ensuring what the title says (perhaps the best title of his career; now it’s me who exaggerates, but it’s good).
I did it an interview with the editorial staff from elDiario.es, which is one of her former lovers (published here between 2013 and early 2016). And she felt comfortable, because for her newspaper, editorial offices are “a refuge.” A place that is still necessary for collective thinking, even if we see that the future is moving closer to individualism, the virtual and prosthetics.
There is a question I ask you about your influence, especially on women journalists, which comes from a memory I have from the college where I studied journalism. I remember this common question that students asked: Are you Rosa Montero or Maruja Torres?
I guess this “being of” wasn’t just about being more of a fan of one or the other, as if they were making us choose between Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran, but also about a style of doing things. What kind of journalist do you want to be? Where do you want to place yourself. I have to admit, now that no one can hear us anymore, almost everyone said: “De Rosa”. I guess we already knew that being part of Maruja’s team was problematic. As she says in the book, she’s not the type to keep quiet.
The journalist’s answer to my question about whether there is a “Maruja school” is to deny the majority; she doesn’t like copies (“copies are bad,” she says). She thinks her influence is not about reproducing her style but about inspiring each person to cultivate their own style. This is not bad advice.
This would be the best answer to the question whether Rosa or Maruja.
I leave you now to continue with the rest of the newsletter. Beam roll and you will find many other recommendations: readings, articles, films by Javier Zurro and plans by Laura García Higueras. Remember that you can receive it every Friday by email. Pay attention to our content, which now We start with coverage of the San Sebastian Film Festival.
Three recommended articles
British historian Seb Falk has written a book that aims contribute to the demolition of medieval mythstitled The Light of the Middle Ages. He tells us about the scientific progress made at the time and the little-known role of the Iberian Peninsula as a driving force for development.
We witness with amazement how the growing demand for major musical events It generates strategies and activities that set off alarm bells, such as dynamic pricing (they increase if there are many requests) or resale.
Abderrahmane Sissako, director of Timbuktu comes back with the film black tea, where he tells the story of the unknown exile of Africans to Asia and the communities they formed there through a story of interracial love. We spoke to him about “Africa with beauty» that you want to show.
Three recommended books
I am in the image. Affective essays and critical fictions (Cliff), is an essay by Miguel Angel Hernandez (professor of art history at the University of Murcia) on the act and ethics of looking, which is in the tradition of Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes and Walter Benjamin. In bookstores on October 2.
The imprint of maps. Mapping the human (geoPlaneta) is a book by Kevin R. Wittmann that brings together many fascinating stories about how geography makes us understand the world, because cartography is also political. In bookstores on September 27.
The Dane Sven Holm has written a classic of dystopian literature, not unlike Ballard’s Skyscraper, title Termouche in 1967 and the Impedimenta publishing house is recovering. Termush is the name of the coastal refuge where an elite of supermillionaires who survived in a radioactive world found themselves. In bookstores from September 9.
Three recommended films, by Javier Zurro
On the way to San Sebastian to visit Zinemaldia from the train, I recommend these films:
‘Kneecap’: imagine 8 miles in Ireland, without Eminem and with a rap group that claims its language and culture. Well, that’s what this surprising film offers (and much better than this film) that has been taking off since the last Sundance Festival and that was chosen by Ireland to represent them at the Oscars (since it is not spoken in English). Fun, fresh and with a punky touch.
“The Aspirant”: It seems incredible that a tradition based on the humiliation of barely adult children continues to exist. Hazing is much more than a game. Behind them hide misogyny, homophobia, classism and abuse of power. This effective thriller shows this very well. which tells the story of the first 24 hours of a few rookies in an exclusive (chic) dormitory.
“Marcello Mio”: The idea may be above the final execution, but it is exciting and makes you smile to see Chiara Mastroianni search for her identity and transform into her father, the mythical Marcello. But above all, it is exciting to see the incombustible Catherine Deneuve in this exercise in metafiction, interpreting herself and opening up under the mask proposed by Christophe Honoré.
Three projects for the weekend, by Laura García Higueras
I’m also on my way to San Sebastian for the festival but I can’t help but recommend some plans:
From school to cinema. Greetings from San Sebastian! I confess that this is one of my favorite weekends of the year, in the heart of Donosti, to live the festival live. Good films, good races from one place to another and some pintxos (hopefully). One of my favorite images is seeing the lines of children about to enter the screenings, so if you are teachers, I encourage you to take your students to the sessions, you can do it in any corner of Spain. Discover programs like Aulafilm And EducaFilmoteca.
“All utopia stops at the belly.” The Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani in Palma opens this week this exhibition by Cuban artist Carlos Garaicoa. In it, through thirty works, he reflects on the conception of the city as a symbolic space. There are drawings of buildings, models, installations and intervention photographs with which he presents themes such as dystopian cities, despair and isolation, the collapse of 20th century ideologies and the collapse of contemporary cities.
Holiday Tribe. This weekend, Burgos celebrates this free festival that will feature artists such as María José Llergo, Gorka Urbizu, Ángeles Toledano, Izaro, Fillas de Cassandra, El Nido and Miss Bolivia. Everything indicates that it will be a very special edition since they will celebrate their tenth anniversary. Enjoy!
Librotea’s recommendations
This week, Librotea offers books that accompany us in the search for an apartment and others that help us stop looking at our cell phones:
