Speaking of the Moix brothers, 2024 is bringing a happy revival of Ana María Moix, coinciding with the tenth anniversary of her death. It was recently learned that the Fort Pienc library in Barcelona will be named after her. The popular consultation was held among the neighbors at the beginning of February and finally the name of the poet prevailed over that of two other Annas who also deserve a library: Anna Murià and Anna Rubiés. Furthermore, the Bamba publishing house recently published Julia, Moix's first novel, in a careful edition, a story of growth crossed by loneliness, with a protagonist marked by an unusual desire, a complicated relationship with her mother and the death of her brother. In addition, the cycle Oh beloved goddesses, which takes place every year in Pamplona and in which several authors are invited to praise another writer whom they consider their ascendant, and Cristina Fallarás did it with Moix, whom she met in the nineties and whom he defines as someone who always fled from the frivolous, a tender, sweet, cultured and almost sickly shy woman.
THOSE CRAZY NINETY'S
Was literary criticism wilder in the nineties? Surely. Here we already heard about an Now its author, Miguel Alcázar (Albacete, 1987) comes forward and publishes in La Uña Rota a compilation book of his favorite findings, precisely titled Literary criticism in the nineties. Alcázar's theory is that literature then occupied a central place in cultural discourse "and critics still held that quality of cultural prescribers and priests that they may have lost with the democratization of the opinion of reading fans on the Internet." And that led them to write things like that about a book by William Gaddis: “Debate publishes the new novel by the cult author, famous for writing thousand-page behemoths that present great difficulty […] I already took a look at his Acknowledgments , to his Jota Erre, to his Gothic carpenter […] And with all of them I have also carried out my favorite pastime: taking a few good naps, then throwing their volumes off the balcony.”
MARTÍ SALES' STAGE PANTS
Almost everything Martí Sales does can be defined as a feast, whether it's music with one of his former groups (Els Surfing Sirles, Convergència i Unió), books (Aliment) or podcasts (the long-awaited Fans de l'Alcover-Moll). And what he will do on the 19th at the Beckett –one night only!– will surely also be a banquet. Whoever arrives will find himself in Sales in front of a bus on a stage full of jugs and jars and there, in an atmosphere of a slightly excessive pagan festival, such as a calçotada or a pig slaughter, some of his obsessions will circulate: Carles Santos, Ursula K. Le Guin, Alice Coltrane, Gerhard Richter, Angélica Liddell, Alda Merini and more. The recital is part of the Alcools festival, the poetry and stage festival founded by Hermann Bonnín in 2015 and which moved from Espai Brossa to Beckett.
JESUS CHRIST MODEL
Javier Botet is that Catalan actor who always plays a monster in Hollywood and who has appeared in The Mummy, It, Alien, Game of Thrones, The Revenant and dozens of other titles, due to his peculiar physique. Diagnosed with Marfan syndrome, the same one that Joey Ramone had, Botet is extremely tall and thin (he barely weighs 56 kilos) and his joints are more flexible than normal. Before the invention of cinema, there were also those who could earn a living if they had particular physical characteristics. For example, the painter Eduardo Rosales (1830-1872), who was also long and narrow and whose physique was perfect for posing like Jesus Christ for other fellow painters. He did it for the painters Gabriel Maureta and Domingo Valdivieso and for the sculptor Agapito Villamitjana, in a piece that is in the Prado museum. In addition, Rosales posed as the Danish prince for Marià Fortuny's Hamlet. He recently dedicated a thread to the account of Alejandro Molina Bravo, an Art History student who does outreach in X.
THE MOST HANDSOME WRITER IN THE WORLD
“Taking into account that I am the most adorable person I know, that I bring together in me all the gifts of nature, that one cannot be more intelligent, nicer, more charming and cuter... well, I find that I am very little vain ", said Terenci Moix in one of his most humble moments – the phrase is collected in the highly recommended documentary series Terenci: the infinite fabulation, on Filmin–. Without knowing it, or knowing it, Terenci was emulating a predecessor, the writer Álvaro Retana, well known in Spain before the Civil War who defined himself as “the most handsome writer in the world.” The Dos Bigotes publishing house now rescues Las locas de postín and El fuego de Lesbos, two short novels by this author who, according to the label itself, was located in the center of a circle of “decadent aesthetes, sycalyptic artists, gallant writers and aristocrats.” libertines.” Retana was prosecuted for indecent writing during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera and later sentenced to death in 1939 for possessing objects of liturgical worship used sacrilegiously. He was freed by the intervention of Pope Pius XXII but served nine years in prison in Porlier prison. After leaving prison, he lived until 1970, without any worldly glory.
