<p>"In the heat of the night you turn towards me under the sheets, my love. You ask me to tell you a story, for you can't fall asleep." --Javi Cillero, "A Kiss in the Dark" A book traces a complicated circle from a dead librarian to a reading policeman. A lonely woman anxiously awaits a letter from herself. A boy, lost in the labyrinth of an unfamiliar Bilbao neighborhood, encounters a mother yearning for a visit from her long-departed son. Travelers are trapped on a snowy pass by mountain snow. A lame girl in a beachside inn learns to love, and to see herself beyond the trap of self-despair. Across the mountains a young man's lover plays a dark role in Basque history. The stories collected in "Basque Short Stories" are varied, multifaceted and reflect a great flowering in Basque narrative. With a foreword by Mari Jose Olaziregi and a personal introduction by each writer. "All writers are in search of something they'll never find." --Anjel Lertxundi, from the author's introduction</p>

An Anthology of Basque Short Stories (Basque Literature)

Literature & Fiction

Olaziregi, Mari Jose

Literary

Center for Basque Studies

"Basque Literary History" provides an overview of the evolution of Basque literature, the sociohistorical events that marked it, and the place it holds within Basque society from its oral roots and its "inception" in 1545 with "Linguae Vasconum Primitiae" by Bernard Etxepare (the first book printed in Basque) to the modern day. It studies "Basque literary history" from the understanding of Basque literature as part of a system-a literary system- to which it belongs and from which it receives meaning and direction. Like all languages and literatures, Basque literature has been conditioned by the relationship between language and literature. In the Basque case this is exacerbated by the subordination of Basque literature to the historical situation. Until the end of the twentieth century, to write Basque literature meant mostly to cultivate the Basque language to the extent that authors would inscribe in their works a defense of the language to prove its versatility and compare it to other, more literary-cultivated languages. In this context, a core aspect of Basque literary history's purpose is the wish to establish literature's autonomy in the context of social and cultural life. Authors, when they create literary universes, no longer feel like mere apologists of a minority language that is peripheral amidst the din of Western European literatures. These authors write in a minorized language, but one that is coming of age and hopes to function as an autonomous system in the context of Basque society and aims to get its voice heard in the World Republic of Letters.  Chapter subjects include: oral literature; "bertsolaritza"; literary production from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries; modern narrative, poetry, theater, the essay, children's and young adult literature, translated Basque literature, and literatures written by Basque writers in other languages than Basque. With a preface by editor Mari Jose Olazieregi and an introduction by Jesus Maria Lasagabaster.

Basque Literary History (Occasional Papers)

History & Criticism

Center for Basque Studies Press

<p>This book, the result of an extensive international gathering of scholars from many different disciplines and countries, explores the fascinating life of Jose Antonio Agirre (1904–1960), the first lehendakari or president of the Basque Country. A charismatic figure that in many ways transcended the bitter political divisions of the age he lived through, Agirre’s legacy serves as a timely reminder of how maintaining one’s political, social, and cultural convictions need not necessarily serve as a barrier when it comes to promoting dialogue, cooperation, and diplomacy. A Basque nationalist but also an internationalist and strong advocate of an integrated Europe, Agirre’s biography reads as a testament to the mid-twentieth century experience of war and exile, and the chapters herein explore his life in both Europe and the Americas against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the coming of the Cold War.</p>

The International Legacy of Lehendakari Jose A. Agirre's Government (Conference Papers)

Biographies & Memoirs

Irujo, Xabier

Leaders & Notable People

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