Beers & Books CCXCVI – Gazdanov's Black Swans

Black Swans / Stories

Gaito Gazdanov (23 November 1903 – 5 December 1971)

Beers & Books CCXCV – Piranesi

A chance find. Fascinating!

Giovanni Batista Piranesi (4 October 1720 – 9 November 1778)

Beers & Books CCXCIV – Love Stories from Ireland

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Beers & Books CCXCIII – James Leslie Mitchell

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Lewis Grassic Gibbon* (13 February 1901 – 7 February 1935)

* pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell

Beers & Books CCXCII– Sunset Song

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Lewis Grassic Gibbon* (13 February 1901 – 7 February 1935)

* pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell

Unforgettable Carlos Saura

¡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)

Friday is Skyday

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Beers & Books CCXCI – Brendan Behan 100

Borstal Boy,
The Hostage and other plays,
Confessions of an Irish Rebel

Brendan Behan (9 February 1923 – 20 March 1964)

The Quare Fellow

Beers & Books CCXC – Frans Eemil Sillanpää

Hurskas kurjuus (1919)
Should be translated a Pious Misery

Frans Eemil Sillanpää (16 September 1888 – 3 June 1964)

Beers & Books CCLXXXIX – The Road to Brightcity

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) 

Mo(o)nday Poetry

Colmena
iVivimos en celdas
de cristal,
en colmena de aire!
Nos besamos a través
de cristal.
iMaravillosa cárcel,
cuya puerta
es la luna!
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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!

* cristal: glass, crystal, water (poetical)

Federico García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936)

Beers & Books CCLXXXVIII – An Eochair / The Key

A mixture of kafka-esque satire, farce, black comedy and tragedy.

Máirtín O'Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970)

Saturday Night Music – Gulda & Hancock

Friedrich Gulda (16 May 1930 – 27 January 2000)

Herbie Hancock *12 April 1940