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Prohaska had been fascinated by images since his childhood, and dedicated her life to them as a film-maker, photographer and painter. But Prohaska is a very unusual artist, obsessed by disappearance and invisibility, a paradoxical man of whom not a single image remains extant but who appears to have seen everything.
Growth always implies some form of violence. For life in a village on the left bank of the River Nervión in the eighties and nineties, where it's all about heroin, unemployment, and where every week the streets whistle with the sounds of rubber bullets and teargas and the walls are covered in execution orders, violence is not just a personal problem.
Forty souls speak to us in death, in the first person. They all tell the story of their life and death, writing their tale in the great book of the library of Demétere, the city where souls gather before continuing on to their next destination: the brilliant city of light, Sulmina (a paradigm of heaven), or the terrible city of Hécate (hell).
23rd February, 1981. A village in Castille surrounded by mountains. Every Monday, seven-year-old Elena goes to her catechism class. One day she and her classmates are unexpectedly urged to leave the classroom and to go home as quickly as they can. A coup d'etat is happening in the country right then.
A book of poems in which, faced with the hounding of time and the mortal horizon, the poet questions and seeks solutions. A soliloquy in which deep notes of lyricism grow, where the body's wear and tear and its deterioration, just as a perplexity before what is imminent, contain profound, mystical, Quevedo-esque notes.
I have lived in a time and a place in which everyone, not only criminals, exempts themselves from obeying the law. When the time or need arises, anyone - for instance, a wealthy technocrat and watchmaking enthusiast - will find reasons to consider that the law does not apply to him and will proceed as a result.
A manuscript found in the palace of an overthrown dictator, a mysterious Kurdish translator and an American computer scientist sick of war are the protagonists of this novel that examines - with both historic and legendary elements - two events that have marked the history of Baghdad: the Mongol invasion of 1258 and the American invasion of 2003.
In the medieval world there was such a symbiosis between art and liturgy at the time of both plastic and poetic creation, the latter was seen not only as a source of inspiration, but also as interpretation of reality. Therefore, liturgical art, beyond a source of aesthetic pleasure to the faithful, is a celebration of the glory of God.
Xenia works hard to be top of her class, inspired by the dream of studying medicine; but lately her performance has been flagging. The fact is that Xenia has fallen in love, though not with one of the boys she knows. She's fallen in love with a ghost, with a voice from the Internet who shares her passion for reading.