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| ¡Esa Luz! / This Light! |
In one of his late interviews, Carlos Saura asked that when he died, no one should remember him. It was only important for him to be remembered as long as he lived.
Ah, Señor Saura, this wish will remain unfulfilled.
Thanks a lot. Rest in peace.
Carlos Saura (4 January 1932 – 10 February 2023)
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| Borstal Boy, The Hostage and other plays, Confessions of an Irish Rebel |
Brendan Behan (9 February 1923 – 20 March 1964)
The Quare Fellow
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| Hurskas kurjuus (1919) Should be translated a Pious Misery |
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| Nine stories, translated by Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, in 1981 made accessible for the first time to an English speaking readership exquisite masterpieces of Ó Cadhain's writings. |
Máirtín O'Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970)
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| Colmena iVivimos en celdas de cristal, en colmena de aire! Nos besamos a través de cristal. iMaravillosa cárcel, cuya puerta es la luna! - - - Beehive We live in cells of crystal in a beehive of air! We are kissing each other through crystal.* Wonderful prison, the door of which is the moon! |
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| A mixture of kafka-esque satire, farce, black comedy and tragedy. |
"Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence."James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941)
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| Thursday, 24 April An elderly customer told me that her book club's next book was Dracula, but she could not remember what he'd written. |
Friedrich Gulda (16 May 1930 – 27 January 2000)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791)
