‘Podcast’ | José Luis Sastre and the great loss of life | What are you studying | Podcasts | EUROtoday

José Luis Sastre, whom we hear to each morning along with Àngels Barceló in Today for Todayon Cadena SER, is Berna González Harbor’s first visitor on What are you studying?he podcast of EL PAÍS books. The journalist takes us to the Atocha station to speak about his first novel, The Stolen Phrases (Plaza&Janés), an immense tribute to literature based mostly on the farewell of a father and daughter. Sastre talks about the potential of dying effectively and analyzes the ability of phrases within the chronicles or within the fingers of authors like Juan Rulfo.

Sastre goes by his references, from Cortázar to Virginia Woolf, Voltaire, Leila Guerriero or Josefina Carabias and explains the literary “coup” that Albert Camus was for him.

Babelia journalist Andrea Aguilar talks to us on this chapter concerning the literature of mourning, with nice books corresponding to these by Joan Didion, Piedad Bonnett or Aura García-Junco. And Jordi Amat brings us Babelia’s suggestions.

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