My thoughts on... Un estiu by Francesc Parcerisas

Un tastet d'estiu enmig d'aquest hivern tan llarg. Una oda a la vida? A l'amistat? Un dietari de contrastos entre records d'infantesa a la platja i la duresa de veure els amics que ens deixen al final de tota una vida d'experiències compartides.

En Un estiu, Francesc Parcerisas ens relata justament això, un estiu, el de 2014, i com ell molt bé diu a la sinopsis, ell ja en sap el desenllaç, de l'estiu, perquè el llibre es va publicar al 2018. Durant aquest estiu que passa a la seva casa de la costa catalana surt cada matí, ben d'hora, a la platja, amb un llibre, una cadireta i una tovallola. Llegeix autors varis, i divaga i reflexiona sobre el que llegeix. També hi ha records d'estiu de la seva infantesa. I durant aquest estiu de 2014 visita amics, ens n'explica la seva història, conjunta i per separat, i per desgràcia, som partícips de l'estiu que va enterrar tres amics.

Francesc Parcerisas és poeta, traductor i crític literari. Ha guanyat una colla de premis i ha traduït al català autors tan coneguts com J.R.R. Tolkien (autor d'El Senyor dels Anells i El hòbbit).

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Si tinc tant d'interès per aquest autor és perquè va ser professor meu de traducció literària anglès-català a la universitat. Normalment la gent utilitzava les seves classes per fer campana i aprofitaven per avançar feina d'assignatures més exigents com japonès o història de la traducció. Jo hi vaig anar (gairebé) a totes i tant de bo pogués seguir escoltant-lo ara. De fet mentre llegia el llibre va ser com si l'escoltés a ell, fent reflexions i divagant, amb aquell parlar calmat i ple d'experiència. 

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A little bit of summer in the middle of this long winter. An ode to life? An ode to friendship? A diary about contrasts, childhood memories at the beach and the hardship of seeing friends leaving us at the end of an entire life of shared experiences.

In Un estiu, Francesc Parcerisas tells us about the summer of 2014 and, as he very well says in the synopsis, he already knows how it ends because the book was published in 2018. During this summer that he spends in his house in the Catalan coast, every morning he goes very early to the beach, with a book, a chair and a towel. He reads different authors and reflects about what he is reading. There are also summer memories from his childhood. And during this summer he visits friends, he tells us about their story, together and separated, and sadly, we witness the summer when he buried three friends. 

Francesc Parcerisas is a poet, a translator and a literary critic. He has won many prizes and has translated into Catalan some renowned authors such as J.R.R. Tolkien (author from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit).

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The reason why I am so interested in this author is because he was my teacher at university. He taught me Literary Translation from English into Catalan. Students used to skip his lessons to study tougher subjects such as Japanese or History of Translation. I went to (almost) all his lessons and I wish I could still listen to him talking right now. In fact, reading his book felt as if I was listening to him, reflecting and rambling, with his voice calm and full of experience.

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Guys you won't belive it, I just downloaded GIMP and of course I started playing with it. Get ready to see my art in the future posts. I am ready to take my photo editing skills up to Kardashian level. 

Do you get it? I put summer in the middle of winter. jajaj should I be feeling ashamed?