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21 days ago
Recently released in France is NEW YORKER (Mercury, 2009, 532 279 8 – www.huguesaufray.com ), the third album of Dylan covers by the veteran French singer Hugues Aufray (the previous two are AUFRAY CHANTE DYLAN, a single album from 1965, and AUFRAY TRANS DYLAN from 1995, a double CD featuring re-recordings of the 1965 songs plus new material). This time too, Aufray has for the most part chosen the re-recording route, but introducing a new element in the form of duets, with well-known singers, French or France-resident (or in one case, a trio). The songs are, as before, in Hugues Aufray’s own French-language adaptations. The album consists of 13 tracks, of which the opener, ‘New Yorker’, is a prose narrative by Aufray himself, the closing track, ‘Cloches sonnez’ (‘Ring Them Bells’), features Aufray solo, while of the rest the trio is ‘Nous serons libres’ (‘I shall be releaesd’), with Pep’s and Wasis Diop, and the remaining 10 are duets. Of the 12 songs ...
22 days ago
Me permito señalaros una nueva obra de referencia, salida ahora en Francia : ‘Dictionnaire des littératures hispaniques: Espagne et Amérique latine’, ed. Jordi Bonells – París: Robert Laffont (Bouquins), 2009, xii + 1636 págs. Se trata de un volumen monumental, rebosante de informaciones e ilustrando un enorme abanico de escritores y géneros de la literatura hispana. Más adelante, seguramente lo reseñaré: por ahora lo recomiendo para la biblioteca de cualquier estudioso o apasionado de la literatura que domine los dos idiomas, castellano y francés. I draw your attention to a new work of reference, recently published in France: ‘Dictionnaire des littératures hispaniques: Espagne et Amérique latine’, ed. Jordi Bonells – Paris: Robert Laffont (Bouquins), 2009, xii + 1636 pp. This is a monumental work, overflowing with information and shedding light on an enormous range of writers and genres of Spanish-speaking literature. I will certainly review it later ...
34 days ago
Entre el 24 de octubre y el 1 de noviembre de 2009 se desarrollará, en la capital española, la muy interesante y evocadora SEMANA GÓTICA. A continuación reproducimos, con el beneplácito de la organización, los folletos oficiales.
46 days ago
I am pleased to have just discovered that at: www.ces.uc.pt/publicacoes/rccs/artigos/75/RCCS75-Espaco%20Virtual-179-180.pdf , the Portuguese journal based in Coimbra, Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais - http://www.ces.uc.pt/publicacoes/rccs/ in its No 75 (Outubro 2006), p. 180, featured an appreciative review in Portuguese, by José Manuel Mendes of the site The Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate - www.wbenjamin.org/walterbenjamin.html - of which I am co-editor. Mentioned, in particular, was my article: “Globalisation and Particularism in the Work of José Saramago: the Symbolism of the Shopping-Mall in A Caverna” - www.wbenjamin.org/saramago.html It is a particular pleasure to be mentioned in this way by the RCCS, a journal to which I contributed on several occasions in the 1980s. For more on RCCS, see entry on this blog for 11 ...
47 days ago
I am pleased to note that my article: - 'How totalitarianism begins at home: Saramago and George Orwell', in In Dialogue with Saramago: Essays in Comparative Literature, eds. Mark Sabine and Adriana Alves de Paula Martins, Manchester: University of Manchester, 2006, pp. 105-120; http://yatrarollason.info/files/SaramagoandOrwell.pdf (see this blog, entries: 25-4, 30-5 and 26-7 2006) has been included in the reading list for the course 'Descobrir Saramago' ('Discovering Saramago'), to be offered from 2 to 6 November 2009 to secondary school teachers of Portuguese and organised by the Centro de Formação da Associação de Escolas de São Miguel e Santa Maria (Azores, Portugal) - see programme at: www.cenform.web.pt/2009/prog_web_nov/76_saramago.doc (organiser: Clarisse Ribeiro Medeiros). The aim of the course is to increase teachers' knowledge and understanding of the work of Portugal's most ...
