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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

October 17, 2025 Noticias Valencia - HoyLunes

From the balcony to oblivion: power, memory, and laughter as trenches against manipulation. By Edinson Martínez HoyLunes – “In February 1948, the communist leader Klement Gottwald stepped out onto the balcony of a baroque palace in Prague to address the hundreds of thousands of people crowding the Old Town Square.” Thus begin the opening lines of “The Book of…

It Reads Like a Movie

August 23, 2025 Noticias Valencia - HoyLunes

When narrative turns into cinema: Frederick Forsyth and the art of writing movies that are read. By Edinson Martínez HoyLunes – The notes that have finally conquered these pages are the result of repeated attempts to focus ideas on content constantly interrupted by the astonishment of coincidences. Having just finished reading “The Afghan” and, contrary to my habit, I…