Automatically translated from Basque, translation may contain errors. More information here. Elhuyarren itzultzaile automatikoaren logoa

Is it too early to talk about nostalgia?

Behe Banda

13 January 2025 - 07:09

Winter has always happened to me melancholy. It was time to look out the window and remember. An ineluctable bureaucracy between autumn and spring, painting back blank on a vertical parcel to reflect whatever you want. It's not just my business, those who forget that the snow is wet also get the yolks red from time to time. Nostalgia sums up the time, warm your hands up to the chimney you've never had, as you devour polvorons you've never liked.

Nostalgia is truly powerful. It's not something new, I know, I know, and it's an invisible spider web. Invisible thread holding the heel and finger, sticky, chaos, obstacle. The one that encourages what is rooted. But this is not an anthropological essay, but a reflection of what, at the moment, looks up and down on the networks.

Nostalgia is not the feeling of a lack of simple times of the past; nostalgia is, above all, the desire for a time that has never happened.

There are many, many, many, classic art stories that appear lately: Our Lady of Paris or Amiens, the cathedral of Cologne, the cathedral of Burgos, Bernini, Borromini and many other Italian names. Mix, no matter Greek art, gothic, baroque or neoneoneoneoneonoclasic. The background, the message, a naïve occurrence that flourishes once in hundreds of photos: Why don't we build it already?

The answer seems obvious to the whole reader: for women, for puppets, for Moors, for migrants, for woks… Reactionary propaganda, of course. Some of the issues that have taken the responsibility of spreading this message on the networks in an almost industrial way support a multitude of followers. You can't tell the fascists that they don't have the ability to organizarse.Al Caesar what's Caesar's.

It's not easy, while you read this column (Corinthians) many people have seen pictures of Versailles and have wonderfully wondered why those things are not done. It seems that the other times were easier. Nostalgia is not the feeling that there are no simple times of the past; nostalgia is, above all, the desire for a time that has never happened.

In the photos everything seems easy, I find it suspicious. Black and white also eliminate photo problems. It has been repeated time and again that we are taught history to learn from our own paw meteors (elliptical subject, red flag), but no one has had enough courage to talk about our prestigious mistakes. The conclusion is clear; an excessively exaggerated tendency to fill gaps if there is no real memory, the historical fill in the gaps.

But this is not a historical essay, but, for the moment, a reflection of an atheist of cathedrals and palaces. It is a warning that poisonous nostalgia should not be mixed between classic orders, marble sculptures and giant leaflets. After all, the only known way forward historically has been to set fire to palaces, churches and castles.


You are interested in the channel: Literatura
Utopia akuilu

Amaieratik hasi. Euskal feminismoa, aldaketarako paradigma
Naia Torrealdai Mandaluniz
Txalaparta, 2025

-----------------------------------------------------------

Naia Torrealdai Mandalunizek Amaieratik hasi. Euskal feminismoa, aldaketarako paradigma saiakera argitaratu... [+]


Poetry of the World Kaieras
"We readers are bilingual and only read part of the foreign literature in Basque"
In 2014, Susa Publishing House created the MPK World Poetry Kaieras collection with the aim of bringing poets from other languages and territories into Basque in a careful anthology format. Since then, 53 kaiers have been donated. Since 2021, Maialen Berasategi and Isabel... [+]

2025-05-28 | Bea Salaberri
Books by Et’abar

The new bookstore will be based on Hazparn’s ideas – if this has not already been published –. It will be called Et’abar. It will be a typical shop with an offer of publications in Basque. It will not only operate in the interior of the Northern Basque Country. Over the... [+]


Aleksandra Kollontai
‘Boltxebike maitemindua’: panfleto arrosa bat

Gutun bat iritsi da Ukrainako Oberih aldizkarira: “Erredakzio estimatua, interesa dakizuekeen zerbait dela-eta idazten dizuet”. Funtzionario bat da idazten duena, Antsyxkin I. V. delakoa, eta aurkikuntza handi bat egin duenaren poz eta urduritasunarekin idazten du... [+]


Children reading will also have their own day of meetings
As well as dance, chess or sports meetings, children and young people who like literature will also have the opportunity to share their hobby, get to know each other and have a fun day next Sunday. 130 young people who have been writing letters to each other during the school... [+]

Hezurrak eta muina

hezur berriak
Ane Labaka Mayoz
Susa, 2025

-------------------------------------------------------
 
Ildaska gorridun larrua, kimu sortu berria edo muin kolore biziduna. Liburuak dakarkigunaren aieru da azala, sortzeaz mintzo baita Ane Labaka Mayozen... [+]

'Pleibak' by Miren Amuriza, winner of 111 Academy
The fifth soul book by Francesco Pasquale, by Unai Elorriaga, was the second finalist of the competition.

By Pepe Mujica and Lucia Topolansky
“The two Basques want to whisper a poem to Pepe and Lucía”

Between January and May 2015, after finishing my studies at the age of 25, my friend Irati Astobieta and I toured Chile, Argentina and Uruguay as part of the Calabazan Wandering Project. Using the poetic tool of whispered poetry, we gave Basque poems from mouth to ear in the... [+]


2025-05-19 | Behe Banda
The Bar Warfare
What We Sing

A fund for the State of Israel has bought most of the macrofestivals in the Spanish state. I'm talking about To. Whether it’s a festival with a beach side driveway or a festival with tattooed hardcorettes, an exchange of 1,400 million euros to build homes in Israeli colonies in... [+]


Changing the stitch by stitch

Tapas
Maite gurrutxaga
Sowing, 2025

-----------------------------------------------------------

If we see the cover of this book of tapas, we can see in it a peppered mouse next to a white and white tapas that is drying. Then, looking at the protection sheets that we... [+]



stone castings, bronze hammers

I've been enjoying a book lately. In a very short time I have read it twice; the first with pure delight and the second with a pencil in my hand. Hoces de piedra, martillos de bronce, by the Spanish archaeologist Rodrigo Villalobos, aims to explore prehistoric society to answer... [+]


Gure iragan femenino eta feministaz

Zuzi iraxegia. euskal emakume idazleak eta literatura klasikoa
Amaia Alvarez Uria
Testu zaharrak, 2024

----------------------------------------------------------------

Liburua esku artean izan aurretik ere arnas luze bat atera zitzaidan barru- barrutik: “ze... [+]


2025-05-13 | ARGIA
The Ciboure Fair pays tribute to Aurelia Arkotxa this year
On June 7th, the Basque Book and Disco Fair of Ciboure, organized jointly by the association Baltsan and ARINA, will take place. In this sixth edition, Aurelia Arkotxa will be honored and a prolific program has been unveiled at the press conference. To liven up the Ciboure Fair,... [+]

Eguneraketa berriak daude