20 enero 2010

La balsa de piedra

Bueno, amigos, es verdad que os tenía un poco abandonados. Perdonadme, es que, como dice el poema de Nicanor Parra, "El premio Nóbel",
claro que ahora leo poco
no dispongo de mucho tiempo
pero caramba que he leído

por eso pido que me den
el Premio Nóbel de Lectura
a la brevedad imposible

Pero algo he leído últimamente, incluyendo esta graciosa y puntiaguda sátira: José Saramago, La balsa de piedra. Oslo recomiendo. Aquí en la costa del levante almeriense, mirando desde mi ventana (como en el cuento de Quim Monzó), me puedo imaginar en la proa de la balsa de piedra ibérica, pero con rumbo hacia Argel y no a las Azores.
(Aquí puede leer nuestra nota sobre La balsa de piedra.)

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Geoffrey Fox's short story collection Welcome to My Contri (1988, enlarged e-book 2010) was described by The New York Times Book Review as a "short and impressive work" in which "Mr. Fox [...] has created a memorable set of players who, while not natural antagonists (they often share the same dreams and goals), are still somehow bent on confrontation. Watching their sometimes vicious, often darkly humorous interactions leaves us thoroughly wrung out and aware that we are in the presence of a formidable new writer". Novels: A Gift for the Sultan (2010), Rabble! (2022) His articles, op-eds and book reviews have appeared in The Nation, The New York Times, the Village Voice and other publications. Since 2008, Fox has been living with his partner, architect Susana Torre, on the edge of the Mediterranean in the village of Carboneras in Andalusia, Spain, where his short stories (in Spanish) under the pen name "Baltasar Lotroyo" ("el otro yo" = alter ego in Spanish) have appeared in anthologies and online publications.