La tierra oculta rene obras de Manuel Rivas que tienen en comn la condicin de literatura de la naturaleza, un manuscrito de la tierra, entendido como espacio real y simblico de emergencia, abandono, crisis y lucha contra la extincin.
Este volumen incluye libros fundamentales de Rivas --Un milln de vacas, galardonado con el Premio de la Crtica espaola, Los comedores de patatas, y En salvaje compaa, Premio de la Crtica gallega-- en una nueva edicin revisada por el autor, e incluye tambin una antologa de relatos titulada Los habitantes de la
dificultad. Todos ellos proponen una mirada al universo rural alejada del costumbrismo y pueden leerse como metfora del mundo en que vivimos. Una literatura en la que todo habla, personas humanas y no humanas, y en la que la imaginacin es una llave para adentrarse en la zona de sombra de la realidad. La de La tierra oculta es una escritura anticipatoria, a contraviento, con el sello de un humor e irona que retrata la injusticia o es vnculo en el desamparo. Un «camino de lucirnagas que intenta desvelar lo que no est bien visto. Porque se ignora o porque desasosiega. Una obra de des-extincin. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "In that seaside environment. At the edge of the cliff. Where words still want to express and not overpower, as beings of a wild nature, where life trembles with fear, amazement, or laughter. This is where I'm writing."
The Hidden Land collects the works of Manuel Rivas that have in common a natural literary condition, being a manuscript of soil, understood as a real and symbolic space of emergency, abandonment, crisis, and a battle against extinction. This volume includes Rivas' essential works (One Million Cows, recipient of the Spanish Critics Award; The Potato Eaters, and In Wild Company, recipient of the Galician Critics Award) in a new edition, revised by the author. It also contains an anthology of short stories entitled The Inhabitants of Difficulty. All which suggest a look into the rural universe away from regionalism, and can be read as a metaphor for the world we live in. This is a literature in which everything has a voice, human and non-human, and in which imagination is key to walk into the shaded area of reality. The narrative in The Hidden Land is anticipatory, upwind, with a stamp of humor and irony that portrays injustice or communicates helplessness. A "path of fireflies" trying to unveil what is frowned upon. Because it is unknown or because it disturbs. A work of de-extinction.
La tierra oculta rene obras de Manuel Rivas que tienen en comn la condicin de literatura de la naturaleza, un manuscrito de la tierra, entendido como espacio real y simblico de emergencia, abandono, crisis y lucha contra la extincin.
Este volumen incluye libros fundamentales de Rivas --Un milln de vacas, galardonado con el Premio de la Crtica espaola, Los comedores de patatas, y En salvaje compaa, Premio de la Crtica gallega-- en una nueva edicin revisada por el autor, e incluye tambin una antologa de relatos titulada Los habitantes de la
dificultad. Todos ellos proponen una mirada al universo rural alejada del costumbrismo y pueden leerse como metfora del mundo en que vivimos. Una literatura en la que todo habla, personas humanas y no humanas, y en la que la imaginacin es una llave para adentrarse en la zona de sombra de la realidad. La de La tierra oculta es una escritura anticipatoria, a contraviento, con el sello de un humor e irona que retrata la injusticia o es vnculo en el desamparo. Un «camino de lucirnagas que intenta desvelar lo que no est bien visto. Porque se ignora o porque desasosiega. Una obra de des-extincin. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "In that seaside environment. At the edge of the cliff. Where words still want to express and not overpower, as beings of a wild nature, where life trembles with fear, amazement, or laughter. This is where I'm writing."
The Hidden Land collects the works of Manuel Rivas that have in common a natural literary condition, being a manuscript of soil, understood as a real and symbolic space of emergency, abandonment, crisis, and a battle against extinction. This volume includes Rivas' essential works (One Million Cows, recipient of the Spanish Critics Award; The Potato Eaters, and In Wild Company, recipient of the Galician Critics Award) in a new edition, revised by the author. It also contains an anthology of short stories entitled The Inhabitants of Difficulty. All which suggest a look into the rural universe away from regionalism, and can be read as a metaphor for the world we live in. This is a literature in which everything has a voice, human and non-human, and in which imagination is key to walk into the shaded area of reality. The narrative in The Hidden Land is anticipatory, upwind, with a stamp of humor and irony that portrays injustice or communicates helplessness. A "path of fireflies" trying to unveil what is frowned upon. Because it is unknown or because it disturbs. A work of de-extinction.
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