Author: Christine Lavant.
This afternoon at 7 pm, the Foro Cultural de Austria in Madrid, the Rafael Alberti bookshop and the resistance books publishing house will present at the Rafael Alberti bookstore (calle Tutor, 57) the book Poemas, by the Austrian writer Christine Lavant.
The public will have the opportunity to know this special work by the hand of Izaskun Gracia Quintana, his translator and responsible for the selection, who will talk with José Luis Gómez Toré.
Gracia Quintana notes that “the only certainties we have about this author are those relating to her biography, such as her real name (Christine Thonhauser), the place and dates of her birth and death (Wolfsberg, 1915-1973), who was the youngest of nine children and, in short, that her life was marked by illness and poverty, and that she is one of the most important German-language writers in the history of literature. It is true that the poetry of Christine Lavant is often hermetic, because she uses language itself to oppose also a language with which she cannot express everything she would like or how she would like to do it. Rather than confirming her hermeticism, I would like to claim the poetry of Christine Lavant as revolutionary. Because he uses language to fight against his own language, because he takes loneliness and rejection as a weapon to confront what brings him as much happiness as suffering. For the ultimate beginning and end of his love and rejection is her and her existence. All of them and all the existences that, like their universe, do not cease to rotate, transform and multiply, as the readings and interpretations we can make of their poetry, and everything that can come to make us feel”.
Pages: 284
Publisher: Libros de la Resistencia
Binding: Soft cover
ISBN: 9788419943064
RPP: 19 euros
