Erein 2020 88 Pages Original title: Argiantza ISBN: 978-84-9109-599-6 Translated into: click here
It is September 1982 and Ramon Beitia, the manager of several cinemas under his charge, has immersed himself in inspection work. Profits have been dwindling, and the young boss, who had just arrived to take over from his father, only has business on his mind. The manager must explain the basics of the business to this person with less shame and less scruples. And that is how the ordeal which will end in a few days begins. The state of these local cinemas and what this person who works there was doing.
Formally it is a perfect piece, in its simple symmetry; a farewell to a world, a way of being and living. The author will masterfully make us feel the breath of the world left behind and the relaxation of time.
Euskadi Literary Prize 2021 – Critics’ Prize 2020 in the field of Basque-language narrative – 111 Akademia Prize 2020.
Pello Lizarralde (Zumarraga, 1956).
Pello Lizarralde first came to prominence through a collection of poems titled Hilargiaren hotzikarak (The Chills of Moonlight, Ustela, 1978). This work is the Gipuzkoan’s only publication in poetry, after which he mainly worked in narrative. Since then, he has published seven novels and two books of short stories. These include Larrepetit (Erein), a novel which won the 2003 Euskadi Prize.
He has also worked in translation. He is responsible for the adaptations of Natalia Ginzburg’s Hirira doan bidea (The Road to the City, Igela) and Arratseko ahotsak (Voices in the Evening, Igela), as well as Gianni Celati’s Denak hasperenka (Everyone Sighs, Igela).
In 2020, he published Argiantza (Erein), a novel set in the 1980s which marks the beginning of the end of filmmaking after the emergence of video technology.
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