Cultura

Someone referred to the Goytisolo as our Brontë.

The novelist and RAE academic Juan Goytisolo (Barcelona, 1935), National Prize for Spanish Literature in 2013, has died at the age of 91. The author of the monumental tetralogy Antagonía was the brother of the also great Barcelona writers Juan Goytisolo and José Agustín Goytisolo.

The singer Aitana and Antonio Díaz, El Mago Pop, have partnered to acquire the Aquitània theater in Barcelona, on Sarrià Avenue. The venue has about 325 seats and has gone through various uses in recent decades, especially as the headquarters of the Filmoteca de Catalunya for 20 years (1991-2011).

Burying babies with their fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or brothers and sisters in the same grave has been common throughout human history. What is surprising, however, is that these children are buried with adults with whom they share no biological relationship. That is precisely what the first Christian communities in Sweden did during the Middle Ages.

All societies, explains British economist Tim Jackson (1957), cling to a myth by which they live. Ours is the myth of growth. Eternal growth that one day will solve all our problems. It is useful, he admits, when you have little. But in excess it begins to cause imbalances. “Human prosperity has to do above all with health,” he points out. And he believes that the myth of growth, driven by male economists who have focused on productivity, efficiency, and the invisible hand of the market, and who have left aside the “invisible heart of society,” the poorly paid work of women, has failed. Jackson, author of Post-Growth and emeritus at the University of Surrey, thinks it is time to change it. He publishes L’economia de la cura (Arcàdia), which will appear in Spanish at Paidós in October.

Now that cult directors like Christopher Nolan endorse the creations of YouTubers like Curry Barker and Kane Parsons – directors, respectively, of two horror films that are making a splash, Obsession and Backrooms – and others like Radu Jude highlight the explosion of creativity they find on TikTok instead of in cinema, it may be easier to look without prejudice at the broad world of content creators and recognize the possibilities of their new languages. In any case, there are awards that for five years have recognized the most relevant influencers, the Ídolo awards, organized by one of their most visible faces, Aida Domènech (Badalona, 1989), better known as Dulceida. And now those awards, which were born and have been presented year after year in Madrid – last year at Ifema, the city’s fairgrounds – are moving to Barcelona thanks to the support of the Generalitat and the City Council, and from their first gala on December 2 they hope to contribute to the renewed momentum that the audiovisual sector is experiencing with projects like Catalunya Media City at Tres Xemeneies and the construction in the Parc Audiovisual de Terrassa of the largest set in Catalonia.

The New Zealand actor Sam Neill passed away this Monday at the age of 78. The actor’s family, especially remembered for his leading roles in Jurassic Park and The Piano, explained through a statement shared on social media that Neill’s death in Sydney was “sudden and unexpected” without specifying the reasons. “Sam was surrounded by his family and passed away with the dignity that characterized his entire life,” his family wrote.

A mid-July morning on the Moray coast in Scotland, near Inverness: the sky is leaden, the sea rough, and the rain falls horizontally. Christopher Nolan makes his way to the pier in search of his maritime advisor, secretly hoping that this will be the first day of the six-month shoot of The Odyssey when they say to him: “Sorry, not today, the sea is too rough.” However, the vessel they are filming on—a 35-meter wooden ship from Norway—had been built with these conditions in mind. So, although it is clear the experience will be terrible, Nolan is assured it will also be perfectly safe.

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That Primavera Sound is a festival different from the rest is demonstrated by things like what happened this Saturday, when Olivia Rodrigo surprisingly announced her presence at the festival just a few, few weeks after performing at the Grec festival, “the most beautiful stage I’ve ever played on,” as the Californian artist stated.