"Mr. Smile" es el título del nuevo libro que acaba de publicar la editorial Toromítico. Una novela escrita para adolescentes cuyo autor, Daniel Múgica, trata de inculcar, a través de una divertida aventura, valores en la juventud que según el novelista se han perdido debido a la deshumanización provocada por la crisis.
This piebald comparative inquiry is the kernel of two experiences with two wenches. As I was gallivanting across a rut of kennels of a street of New York, I saw a hairlanked black woman, and I wooed her by using my most poetical and knightly resources and polite letters. Amid that hectic cityscape she accepted my words, which at that moment were only an echo of a line of a poem written by Lord Byron: “She walks in beauty, like the night” (1). She smiled, and we are good records of love now. I did the same thing in Mexico with another coloured lass. Decorum does not permit me to describe her barbarian reaction.
With a simple reasoning we could explain the theory that sustains the great book The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, hoisted by Edward Gibbon. That reasoning is: a society unavoidably subjected to material conditions can be described in terms of tragedy; a society ruled by reason, that is, one that is free, can be described in terms of epic; but a society compounded by rational beings that is deceived by material accidents and psychological illusions deserves to be described in terms of satire. The said book is a methodic, philosophical, elegant and perdurable jeer against irrational beings, whose pretext was Rome. The famous sentence of Gibbon, quoted here and there as a slogan of the said work, thus gets a meaning, and it says: history is “the register of the crimes and follies and misfortunes of mankind” (1).
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El dandi sanguinario que encarnaba Jack Nicholson. El agente del caos con sus ojos hervidos en cráteres de khol al que dio vida Heath Ledger. O, finalmente, el Joker de piel cadavérica y sonrisa acuchillada que ha llevado a Joaquin Phoenix al Olimpo del séptimo arte. ¿Hijos del siglo? Sí, pero del XIX. Todos ellos emergen de dos tinteros magistrales. Víctor Hugo y Alejandro Dumas fueron sus padres putativos. Hasta que Francis Bacon, ya en el XX, lo incorporó a su galería de los horrores contemporáneos.
No es nuevo para nadie que todos queremos salir guapos y brillantes en las fotografías. Que levante la mano quien, al ver su foto, haya dicho: "Oh, estoy sonriendo muy raro". Ya ves, nos ha pasado a la mayoría de nosotros.
"Toma interior" es una representativa antología de ese talento poético, pasión y lucidez que posee la obra del “León de Belfast”, Van Morrison. El propio cantante ha escogido algo más de sus 60 canciones más representativas para publicar este bello libro. La edición corre a cargo de Malpaso.
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