Premio Nacional de las Letras Espa olas 2024 «En el medioambiente de la orilla. Al borde del acantilado. Donde las palabras todav a quieren decir y no dominar, como seres de una naturaleza salvaje, donde la vida tiembla de miedo, asombro o risa. Ah es donde escribo . La tierra oculta re ne obras de Manuel Rivas que tienen en com n la condici n de literatura de la naturaleza, un manuscrito de la tierra, entendido como espacio real y simb lico de emergencia, abandono, crisis y lucha contra la extinci n. Este volumen incluye libros fundamentales de Rivas --Un mill n de vacas, galardonado con el Premio de la Cr tica espa ola, Los comedores de patatas, y En salvaje compa a, Premio de la Cr tica gallega-- en una nueva edici n revisada por el autor, e incluye tambi n una antolog a de relatos titulada Los habitantes de la dificultad. Todos ellos proponen una mirada al universo rural alejada del costumbrismo y pueden leerse como met fora del mundo en que vivimos. Una literatura en la que todo habla, personas humanas y no humanas, y en la que la imaginaci n es una llave para adentrarse en la zona de sombra de la realidad. La de La tierra oculta es una escritura anticipatoria, a contraviento, con el sello de un humor e iron a que retrata la injusticia o es v nculo en el desamparo. Un «camino de luci rnagas que intenta desvelar lo que no est bien visto. Porque se ignora o porque desasosiega. Una obra de des-extinci n. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Premio Nacional de las Letras Espa olas 2024 award "In that seaside environment. At the edge of the cliff. Where words still want to express and not overpower, as beings of a wild nature, where life trembles with fear, amazement, or laughter. This is where I'm writing." The Hidden Land collects the works of Manuel Rivas that have in common a natural literary condition, being a manuscript of soil, understood as a real and symbolic space of emergency, abandonment, crisis, and a battle against extinction. This volume includes Rivas' essential works (One Million Cows, recipient of the Spanish Critics Award; The Potato Eaters, and In Wild Company, recipient of the Galician Critics Award) in a new edition, revised by the author. It also contains an anthology of short stories entitled The Inhabitants of Difficulty. All which suggest a look into the rural universe away from regionalism, and can be read as a metaphor for the world we live in. This is a literature in which everything has a voice, human and non-human, and in which imagination is key to walk into the shaded area of reality. The narrative in The Hidden Land is anticipatory, upwind, with a stamp of humor and irony that portrays injustice or communicates helplessness. A "path of fireflies" trying to unveil what is frowned upon. Because it is unknown or because it disturbs. A work of de-extinction.
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