Tag: books
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Poetry, yoga and uprooting. Kikidorinen and a search that gives it unity
I lived the uprooting of my country as the uprooting of my writing. As if pulling up by the roots a vital power that had no fertile ground in another language. After some time I developed a personal writing in English, that I was able to keep expanding thanks to this website. However, the power…
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The Handmaid´s Tale after eight years: how far from reality?
The sixth and final season of The Handmaid’s Tale was finally released last April: after eight years, it ends a powerful and brave story about inner strength and resistance. However, the adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s work to the big screen will be continued in the spin-off The Testaments, based on the sequel novel by the…
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Why do we keep writing?
What is the force that keeps us doing something like writing? Which is the real reason why we insist on putting one word behind the other, while the years run away and nothing beyond that has come? Do we write to get readers? I do not think so. Together with the question about if I…
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I love paper, but it is too heavy: questions about private writing in the digital era
Much has been said about the death of paper with today’s technological transformation. Undoubtably, the explosion of platforms and digital formats has modified the ways we read, and not only that, but the ways we live and make sense, how we create our identity and how we spend our spare time: a report by Social…
A little fire 