Bernardo Atxaga

Tells the story of the people of Obaba, a remote Basque village

Obabakoak

A collection of four stories starring an adventure-seeking canine follows Shola as she resolves to connect with her wild heritage despite the efforts of her long-suffering owner, Señor Grogó, and her love for home-cooked meals. By the award-winning author of Obabakoak.

The Adventures of Shola

One dark and stormy night, Mo hears her Inner Voice urging her to begin writing her memoirs. Having ignored her Inner Voice’s advice once before, with near-fatal consequences, she decides, this time, to do as she is told. Mo looks back on her life, beginning with the crucial moment when she met another cow, who introduced herself as La Vache qui Rit, and assured Mo that there was nothing more stupid in this world than a stupid cow. Mo spends her life trying to prove to her friend that, despite being a cow, she is not at all stupid. Besides, she has her Inner Voice and a great desire to live! Set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, in which defeated Republican supporters are still being persecuted by victorious Nationalists. Memoirs of a Basque Cow paints a funny, touching portrait of friendship and freedom and the sometimes difficult process of finding oneself. Translated by the UK's finest translator of Spanish, Margaret Jull Costa.

Memoirs of a Basque Cow

Esos cielos

The accordionist's son

Obabakoak (Spanish Edition)

A Novel

Nevada Days

A celebrated international author, listed among the "21 top writers for the 21st century" (The Observer, U.K.) As David Imaz, on the threshold of adulthood, divides his time between his uncle Juan's ranch and his life in the village, where he reluctantly practices the accordion, a tradition that his authoritarian father insists he continue, he becomes increasingly aware of the long shadow cast by the Spanish Civil War. Letters found in a hotel attic, along with a silver pistol, lead David to unravel the story of the conflict, including his father's association with the fascists, and the opposition of his uncle, who took considerable risks in helping to hide a wanted republican. With affection and lucidity, Bernardo Atxaga describes the evolution of a young man caught between country and town, between his uncle the horse-breeder and his political father. The course of David's life changes one summer night when he agrees to shelter a group of students on the run from the military police. This is the most accomplished novel to date by an internationally celebrated writer. The Accordionist's Son is memorable for its epic scope—from 1936 to 1999—and the details with which it sparkles in gorgeous prose. It is easy to understand why The Observer listed Atxaga as one of the top twenty-one writers for the twenty-first century.

The Accordionist's Son

Memorias de una vaca

Humoristisk fortælling om hunden Bambulo, der stammer fra en gammel og anset familie. Hans sekretær fortsætter beretningen om den intelligente hund, og det leder bl.a. til spørgsmålet: Eksisterede den trojanske hest virkelig???

La crisis

Humoristisk fortælling om hunden Bambulo, der stammer fra en gammel og anset familie. Han har en sekretær, der forsøger at finde hans forfædre, og de fleste viser sig at have haft en fremtrædende plads i historien f.eks. på et maleri af Goya og som kriger i den trojanske krig

primeros pasos

Las bambulísticas historias de Bambulo

Asun Garikano

amigos que cuentan

"A unique and stunning international literary event: winner of Spain's National Prize for Literature, Obabakoak, a work of fiction, is one of only several hundred books to be written in four centuries in Basque, a language understood by few (the author himself had to translate his book into Spanish to broaden its appeal throughout Europe, where it has been published to ecstatic acclaim)." "Obabakoak means "the people and things of Obaba (a Basque village)," and the narrator weaves a tale reminiscent of Scheherazade's. The village is peopled with rascals, innocents, intellectuals, shepherds, hunters, idiots, and creatures of superstition, and the interconnection of their private worlds is brilliantly evoked. Parody, riddles, texts within texts abound in a book that is playful yet always tinged with melancholy." "Possessed of the timelessness of the fairy tale and informed by the lore of the oral tradition - and offering a good-humored spin through metaliterature and intertextuality - Obabakoak is a multi-faceted and rousing celebration of the art of storytelling."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

"Among these girls are pretty Teresa and her plain friend, Carmen, a girl disfigured by a birthmark on one cheek. Teresa is the reluctant, indeed disgusted, object of Daniel's dreams, but both are sweet on Paulo, the quiet, irresolute but handsome lad who has inherited the family sawmill. Each girl schemes to win favour with Paulo. The narrators of this story, who take turns to continue the tale, are creatures of the wild driven by their inner voices - a bird, squirrels, a black snake...Delicately told, in the simplest language, this is an elegiac tale of lost innocence and the ruthlessness of the natural world, where the hunter all too soon becomes the prey."--BOOK JACKET.

The Fourth Song

Two Brothers

Bernardo Atxaga's Water over Stones follows a group of interconnected people in a small village in the Basque Country. It opens with the story of a young boy who has returned from his French boarding school to his uncle's bakery, where his family hopes he will speak again. He's been silent since an incident in which he threw a stone at a teacher for reasons unknown. With the assistance of twin brothers who take him to a river in the forest, he'll recover his speech. As the years pass, those twins, now adults, will be part of a mining strike in the Ugarte region, and so take up the mantle of the narrative, just as others will after them.

Water Over Stones

Vicente Verdú

Gilles Lipovetsky

Luis Fernández-Galiano

José Javier Esparza

Ana Diosdado

Juan Plazaola

Juan Ángel Vela del Campo

José M.ª Bergareche

Miguel Zugaza

Jean Haritschelhar

Diego Galán

El Forum Deusto ofrece en el presente volumen las conferencias impartidas durante el año 2004 en este ciclo dedicado al arte, la cultura y la comunicación. Somos arte y parte de la sociedad del espectáculo, de ahí que el Forum Deusto haya abordado este año diferentes aspectos de esa implicación.

Arte y parte en la sociedad del espectáculo

Etengabe errepikatzen den naturaren sasoi-gurpilean txori, katagorri, suge eta antzarek bi anaien -Paulo eta Daniel- istorioa kontatzen digute. Urtea joan urtea etorri, beti bestelako eta aldi berean beti berdin agertuko den Obabako irudimenezko lurralde hori, baina, gizakien arteko handinahi, irrika eta grinen agertoki krudela da. Paulo eta Daniel anaia atzeratua dira giza-kudelkeria horren biktimak. Gizakiok errenditzen gaituen naturaren lege zaharrean bildurik, Paulo eta Danielen munduko ibilera itogarriak txori, katagorri, suge eta antzaren fabulen munduarekin egiten dute bat, eta irakurlearengan efektu zoragarria lortzen gainera: ihesaren eta kontsolazioaren sentipen askatzailea. Zail da asmatzen nork jarri duen bere aldetik gehiago, irudimen handiko idazleak ala dohain handiko kontalariak; izan ere, oso gutxitan bezala egokitu baitzaio bata besteari. Emaitza paregabea da. Artista handi baten lana.

Bi anai

Ficcionario

Memorias de una vaca/ Memories of a Cow

A seductive, unclassifiable blend of autobiography and fiction set in Reno, from the preeminent Basque author Nine months as a writer in residence can prove unnerving for anyone. For Bernardo Atxaga, newly arrived with his wife and two daughters, research at the Center for Basque Studies in Reno, Nevada, is anything but straightforward. The neon lights and harsh, windswept desert appear full of ominous signs: A raccoon that watches the house at night, eyes glowing. A series of sexual assaults on campus by an unknown assailant. A spider scuttling endlessly in a glass jar kept by a colleague. And the kidnapping and murder of a young college girl in the house next door. Fragments of the Basque diaspora appear everywhere: A photo of the heavyweight boxer Paulino Uzcudun, who fought Max Baer in the 1930s. The funeral of a Basque sheepherder. Daily life also turns up some unusual characters—a university friend suspected of involvement in the assaults on campus, a friend who takes Atxaga for long drives in the desert where The Misfits was filmed, and cowboys at a Tex-Mex joint. Nevada Days, told in a series of diary-like entries, mixes a constellation of lively incidents in Reno with memories from Atxaga’s childhood. The routines of everyday life are the only way to resolve the deep wounds of history and relationships, however fleeting or enduring. Trapped in the deeply alien landscape of Nevada, Atxaga weaves together past and present to see the West from a refreshing, if also ominous and unsettling, vantage.

Bernardo Atxaga

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