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Graphic novelsSeptember 2018The Violet
by Juan Sepúlveda / Antonio Mercero / Marina Cochet
Valencia, 1955. Bruno falls into a trap set by the police at the Ruzafa cinema to arrest homosexuals under the law of social danger. His entry into prison at the age of eighteen, and the pressure of his family, will force him to make decisions that will mark the rest of his life. The violet is a graphic novel about the persecution suffered by homosexuals during Franco's regime in Spain, and the coexistence of the women who married them. A story that brings to light the concentration camps for homosexuals that the regime created and that historically are being forgotten. It is a unique and self-concluding work. Marina was nominated as the best Spanish cartoonist in the Heroes Comic Con Valencia 2019 for this work. Antonio Santos Mercero, one of the two writers of the graphic novel EL VIOLETA, has won on Friday, October 15, the Planeta 2021 Award for the novel LA BESTIA, co-written with two other writers (Jorge Díaz and Agustín Martínez) under the pseudonym Carmen Mola. The Planeta 2021 Prize was presented by King Felipe VI to the winners and is endowed with 1 million euros. It is currently the literary prize with the largest financial endowment in the world, above the Nobel Prize for Literature. Antonio Santos Mercero is the author of four other novels: El final del hombre, La cuarta muerte, La vida desatenta and El caso de las japonesas muertas. He is also the scriptwriter of television series such as Hospital Central, Lobos and MIR. This title is one of the few selected by the ICEX panel of experts for the U.S. and Brazilian markets. New Spanish Books is a project of the Spanish Foreign Trade Institute ICEX in cooperation with the Spanish publishers' association FGEE. It is intended to make it easier for publishers from the world to gain access to new books from Spain and to help them decide which titles are worth translating. See www.newspanishbooks.us and www.newspanishbooks.br.com
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The ArtsMemoria y paisaje en el cine japonés de posguerra
by Pedro Iacobelli y Claudia Lira
La Segunda Guerra Mundial en Japón fue un evento único y transformador que implicó la reconstrucción física y espiritual del país. El paisaje —como categoría estética— y la memoria —como una entidad colectiva— son conceptos que permiten auscultar a los pueblos luego de crisis históricas profundas. En este sentido, la presente publicación examina las principales corrientes del cine japonés a partir de una lectura y análisis histórico y estético, e innova en la lectura de las sociedades poscrisis al incorporar una visión interdisciplinaria original. “No hay nación cuyo sentido del tiempo y del espacio se mantengan invariables después de una catástrofe fundamental. El cine de posguerra de Japón, a través del desarrollo estético de sus identidades espaciales y temporales, conjuga poéticamente las nociones de trauma, origen e identidad. Los minuciosos escritos que reúne este libro analizan ese corpus fílmico en torno a los conceptos de memoria y paisaje, pero no solo como tipificación de argumentos, elementos de drama o iconografías, sino especialmente como ideas audiovisuales de la conciencia moderna en crisis, forma que desde occidente o desde nuestra periferia contemplamos con una extrañeza familiar”. Pablo Corro PhD, director del Magíster en Estudios de Cine. Instituto de Estética UC
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FictionJune 2020Drawings of Hiroshima
by Marcelo Simonetti
“The sky was covered with grey clouds. The drizzle was lighter than normal, almost pious. The Japanese were advancing through the streets with short, fast steps. Satoru was ahead of them. He pedaled at a good pace. From his bicycle seat, the city revealed itself to his eyes as a sequence of frames. It was strange to be there, in his grandfather's city, and to ride through it as he had probably never done before: on two wheels. Even so, the possibility that the route he was taking would intersect with the routes that his grandfather had taken when he was a child, provoked an intimate emotion in him. Those landscapes were over eighty years old, including an atomic bomb, but it was the land where Ryu Nakata had learned to walk, to speak, to read”. The death of his grandfather, awakens in the young Yasuhiro Nakata the desire to know the family history, especially after finding a letter in which he discovers another side of the old man whose last words were: 'Hiroshima, Hiroshima', warning of the existence of a secret. As a result, Yasuhiro embarks on a journey that will take him from Valparaiso to Hiroshima, where his grandfather emigrated ten years before the atomic disaster. This is the beginning of Drawings of Hiroshima— a charming story that allows readers to follow the protagonist on a journey in which he not only reconnects with his Japanese origins, but also questions his present, his interpersonal relationships and his interest in writing, deepening the unconscious desire to understand the role that he plays in a story that is not his own but yet challenges him directly. With this new release, Marcelo Simonetti addresses issues such as migration and identity, connecting the historic Chilean port of Valparaiso with the memory of the tragedy occured in the Japanese city.
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Graphic novelsJanuary 2019The Violet
by Juan Sepúlveda, Antonio Mercero, Marina Cochet
Valencia, 1955. Bruno falls into a trap set by the police at the Ruzafa cinema to arrest homosexuals under the law of social danger. His entry into prison at the age of eighteen, and the pressure of his family, will force him to make decisions that will mark the rest of his life. The violet is a graphic novel about the persecution suffered by homosexuals during Franco's regime in Spain, and the coexistence of the women who married them. A story that brings to light the concentration camps for homosexuals that the regime created and that historically are being forgotten. It is a unique and self-concluding work. Marina was nominated as the best Spanish cartoonist in the Heroes Comic Con Valencia 2019 for this work. Antonio Santos Mercero, one of the two writers of the graphic novel EL VIOLETA, has won on Friday, October 15, the Planeta 2021 Award for the novel LA BESTIA, co-written with two other writers (Jorge Díaz and Agustín Martínez) under the pseudonym Carmen Mola. The Planeta 2021 Prize was presented by King Felipe VI to the winners and is endowed with 1 million euros. It is currently the literary prize with the largest financial endowment in the world, above the Nobel Prize for Literature. Antonio Santos Mercero is the author of four other novels: El final del hombre, La cuarta muerte, La vida desatenta and El caso de las japonesas muertas. He is also the scriptwriter of television series such as Hospital Central, Lobos and MIR. This title is one of the few selected by the ICEX panel of experts for the U.S. and Brazilian markets. New Spanish Books is a project of the Spanish Foreign Trade Institute ICEX in cooperation with the Spanish publishers' association FGEE. It is intended to make it easier for publishers from the world to gain access to new books from Spain and to help them decide which titles are worth translating. See www.newspanishbooks.us and www.newspanishbooks.br.com
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2020Breve historia de la mitología japonesa
by Luis Antonio Carretero Martínez
Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, Susano, Orochi, Oni, Kappa, Kisune: immerse yourself in the exciting Japanese culture, its beliefs, rites, deities, monsters, and creatures. All the enigmatic myths and legends from the Kojiki, and the Nihonshoki, to the survival, and dissemination of these narratives in pop culture, manga, anime and video games. Japanese culture has been able to continue to transmit its myths, stories, and legends to the present day, camouflaging them among the fantastic stories that we can easily find in manga, anime, and video games. But these narratives have their origins many centuries ago, and have been varying and evolving as they have been told generation after generation. Religion has walked alongside them, from the rise of Shintoto to the arrival of Buddhism which, by living together, caused supernatural, and fantastic beings to multiply. The adventures of the peach child Momotaro, the antics and deceptions of the Tanuki, the wicked Oni, or the great gods such as Amaterasu, Susanō, and Tsukuyomi are at the heart of each of these stories.
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Cartoons & comic stripsDouble meaning
La técnica del Yoge-e en la obra de Gustave Verbeek
by Roberto Iglesias
Gustave Verbeek, creating his comic strip “Loveking&Muffaroo” for the New York Herald between 1903-1905, relived what he had learned in his native Japan. For this he used the ancient Japanese technique of Joge-e, a derivation of the well-known Ukiyo-e, where the xylography or images engraved in wood could be seen and read with double meaning depending on whether it was turned to the right or the other way around as if it were an ambigram. All amalgamated with hints of dialogue with fine traces of nonsense or non-sense literature. Gustave Verbeek al crear su tira cómica “Loveking & Muffaroo” para el New York Herald entre 1903-1905, revivió lo aprendido en su Japón natal. Para ello usó la milenaria técnica japonesa del Joge-e, una derivación del conocido Ukiyo-e, donde la xilografía o imágenes grabadas en madera se podían ver y leer con doble sentido según se gire al derecho o al revés como si fuera un ambigrama. Todo amalgamado con pizcas de diálogos con finos trazos de literatura sin sentido o non-sense.
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Nori e Eu
by NINOMIYA, SONIA | NINOMIYA, MASANORI
Nori&Eu; is a project with three voices. Caeto, a Brazilian author of comics and an illustrator, is the editor and brings together two versions of one family’s story: the narrative of Sonia and her son Massanori, or Nori. Sonia tells her story beginning with the birth of Massanori, the difficulties in diagnosing her autistic son, his relationships with the other siblings, family, school and friends. A story of love and dedication, but full of prejudice and difficulties as well. Moving and dramatic. Massanori in turn, a student in Caeto’s drawing course and author of mangas (fanzines), tells his story in a peculiar manner, circumscribed by world events. As explained by his mother: “I perceive my son’s mind as a compendium relating facts and dates, today not only limited to Disney related subjects or super heroes, but historical facts, cultural landmarks and family stories that he finds in books, encyclopedias and by talking with family members… It’s his security blanket.”
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2022La tercera máscara
by Care Santos
This harsh realist novel is a fiction masterfully created by the writer Care Santos, but it might not be. It could well be a journalistic investigation about a true event, one of those newspaper articles that shocks consciences and makes us ask how something like this has happened? How could someone so young commit such an atrocity? Some people may believe that there are things that it is better not to go deep into, that it is better to turn a blind eye. But if we do so then, how can we prevent it from happening again?
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Science fictionDecember 2018Psique El despertar Sombrío
by Iván R. Sánchez
ohn, a man immersed in the addiction of alcohol, is constantly tormented by his inner demons; repentance, loneliness and grief are translated into hallucinations, nightmares and terrors that he silences with liquor. One day, after ending up in jail because of a terrible night of abstinence, he discovers that something in him has changed and that now he must face a long road of redemption. He will discover that he is not alone and that the monsters that inhabited the darkness of his thoughts can come out, whisper to him, pursue him ... The real and the unreal are confused within a spiral of tragic events that lurk in every place where he seeks refuge.
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Houses
by María José Ferrada, Pep Carrió
The authors of this book take us on a journey through the different ways of inhabiting a house. Based on illustrations by Pep Carrió made with acrylic markers, the writer María José Ferrada uses poetic language and humor to propose a set of micro-stories that invite readers to observe their own ways of inhabiting the world.
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The ArtsApril 2021The House as a Garden
by Xavier Monteys
A cross between an academic article and ingenious reflection in a journalistic style, in this book the concept of the house is extended to the garden, not only in a literal sense, but also metaphorical: houses with gardens, gardens inside houses, the house understood as a garden. The journey includes well known historical examples as well as rarities from architects such as Le Corbusier, Lina Bo Bardi and Bernard Rudofsky to popular or anonymous architecture to expand upon the idea of the house and garden.
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Against the Arrogance of Those Who Read
Texts to rethink the act of reading
by Cristian Vázquez
It seemed to me that the different texts that appear in this book needed each other, and that each one of them knew the exact place it had to occupy, and that its limits fitted in so well with those around it as if they were the pieces of a detailed puzzle. I also feared that this collection might be superfluous and banal. Moreover, is it not even contradictory that under the title Against the 'Arrogance of Those Who Read', the mere notes of a reader are printed? In any case, I like to think of this book as the child of that tension. And of other tensions, such as that between reading and writing. Or the one that asks if there are differences between the writers who read and the readers who write, and if so, what are they? Or the one that seeks the last frontier in the eagerness to express love for books, in order to promote reading, without falling into the trap of becoming a crude propagandist or an obnoxious show-off.
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IllustrationOctober 2022Intervals
The silence of images
by Guridi
In this new book, Guridi off ers us his creative vision of the picture book. He delves into the relationship between images and text, between space (physical and mental) and characters, and especially the intervals—the interstitial spaces that give rise to deep meaning of works of this kind, inviting the active participation of readers. His practical advice sets us on the path to our own truth and shows us how to capture it through the empty spaces of images.
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Biography & True StoriesDecember 2020Amazonas con pincel
by Victoria Combalía
This book proposes a fascinating, clear and didactic journey through the life and work of women artists. Camille Claudel, Frida Kahlo or Dora Maar, among others, occupy the pages of this book illustrating a wide time period and their corresponding styles, from Impressionism to the 1940s of the 20th century.This work constitutes a corrected and enlarged part of Amazonas con brush, a book published in 2006. The texts seek a balance between the historical importance of the creators and the interest in their life, which sheds much light on the difficulties of being a woman and artist at the same time. For this reason, special attention has been paid to their working conditions, their success or neglect of their careers, and those who were able to encourage them or, on the contrary, silence them. They fought, like men, to express their vision of the world and renew artistic language, but in a social context far removed from equal opportunities. This book written by Victoria Combalía was in 2006 the first publication that was published in Spain focused on women artists.
