TO RETURN TO “THE YEAR IN PRINTS”

It is always a good time to delve into the pages of THE YEAR IN PRINTS, a reading that could seem a nostalgic evocation of a past time and longing for a georgic illusion or evasion towards rural areas, alien to the author, but it is neither of the two -writes Marià Villangómez Llobet (Ibiza, 1913) in his prologue-, but a book of living realities - of some realities, personal experiences included-, with references to earlier times and some historical digressions, past and tradition as always exert their strength in this.

Desde ILLES.CAT we offer the possibility to download the electronic book (digital) of this work by Marià Villangómez. Also listen to the audio (podcast) of all the chapters that make up THE YEAR IN PRINTS en LeOigo.

Marià Llobet, “Honorary Award for Catalan Literature”, author of an important poetic work and excellent translator of English poets, Italian and French, wrote The year in stamps in the small town of Sant Miquel, on the island of Ibiza, en 1953, one of the thirteen that happened there, dedicated to teaching. Translated into Spanish by Vicente Valero, describe, with high penetration and authenticity poetry, a landscape and a society that, collected themselves centuries, unalterable, They are beginning to see the arrival of the big changes

They have already sounded all over the island, with joyous haste, running over, the resurrection bells. Upcoming and plurals, with various confused sounds, around the thick hill of the city, like a pigeon flight.

Lonely and remote, about rural churches, calling the attention of the peasants busy on their piece of land to the intimate and clear peal.

April, invading light, that Ibizan light that forces you to look with your eyes half closed. Palm hearts hats for jobs. Greenery in the fields. Even the humblest grass has its flower, with a drop of beauty ...

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THE YEAR IN PRINTS

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