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ABOVE: Cover page of one of the books of Luis Carandell, most successful: Celtiberia Show. I was about ten years old when I saw it for the first time; They was just had surgery for appendicitis my brother (Mario) and while he was convalescing in the hospital; someone gave him a copy. The poor Mario could not laugh, because the scar is opened. Nevertheless, he kept releasing laughter and kept reading it and review; commenting on all the genius he saw there. Such was my curiosity, that when my brother fell asleep, I opened the book and obviously I began to laughing alone. Suddenly the patient woke up to told me that this was a book of older. It was then; that I wanted to check it entirely and staying clouded by the world Carandell., which pledged one Celtiberian and genial Spain.
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ABOVE:
One
of the last works of Carandell: The most beautiful villages of Spain
(published in 2002, the year he died). Was this author, a tireless
traveler who toured all Spain; as a true lover of our culture, the spanish history and their art. For
once, the scholars and educated people going from one place to
another, in order to cultivate, aggrandizement and collecting the
traditions or customs of each site. But mostly they traveled for love
of art and history, which can only be learned in this way: Dedicating
thousands of hours reading and doing thousands of kilometers a year;
backpacking, watching every corner of the world. Only in this way,
you grow intellectually and culturally progresses; when you see
(suddenly) how in the lost corner of Spain, in one little village
that nobody imagines. Where nobody believes it... . A missing
monument, a monastery fallen almost ruined palace or a stranger mehalith appears. All this, of an elegance and majesty, infinite.
This being the time when one fails to understand the way that some
countries abandon to their fate the most precious assets, caring
instead of nonsense. Anxious to maintain a museum of motorcycle in a village inhabited, only with old people; where buildings
with hundreds of years will come down. It is one of the truths of
Spain; where Gothic and Romanesque churches fall apart, while are worry to give the money designate to culture, spending it for discodances and summer
dance parties (which is fun and gets votes).
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THIS PARAGRAPH: The
town of Atienza, where Luis Carandell had from 1970 until he died,
his "rest of the warrior". A house that enjoyed weekends,
surrounded by his friends of the town and personalities who visited
him, arrived from Madrid. As
we were saying, it was around 1970 when I first heard the name of
this journalist-lawyer and humanist. Seeing a copy of his "Celtiberia
Show" that brought my brother when he operated.
Wishing who gave it a good convalescence: -"Crying with
laughter"-. As they spent on the first page and something that
was fulfilled; as the newly operated could not stop reading it and
every time I let out a laugh while crying, in pain as his wound open.
This first encounter with Carandell marked me forever because I
looked so brilliant his work, and his world; that since then (when I was still a child) I wanted to somehow be like him. Interested
because the writer did and said; at home buying shortly after the second
part of that "Celtiberia Show," which was called
"Celtiberia bis".
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ON THIS PARAGRAPH: Another
image of Atienza and his rock castle, next to which even the colossal
wall areas are preserved. As
I wrote earlier, Luis Carandell was an unforgettable character; whose
interventions from the Senate or Congress of Deputies (as journalist)
made history. Therefore it is considered the best chronicler of the Chambers had, durign the spanish democracy; and their stories about what was happening in these, were
full of intelligence, irony and culture. His broadcast voice that
characterizes him; and with that sly smile, made her laugh at
least sympathetic. Reflecting the extreme, and doing everybody think with the chronics (also the dumbest).
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ABOVE:
The
house Carandell in Atienza, near the present museum (opened about
fifteen years ago when the writer supported the cultural activities
of those people who both wanted). We
ended the previous paragraph saying that chronic broadcasting from
the Parliament did think even, also the dumbest. But such was his group of
commentators and his name: "The gathering of contemporary
silly". Which met at Mondays in the famous Taberna del
Alabardero, a few meters from the Teatro Real in Madrid; and whose
great award was "piece of chalck", every years, for the "Contemporary silly". Award granted that for a whole
year had released the greatest imaginable absurdities; giving what
would please him so much. Since then, what of it was said: "He
likes more, than a stupid love a chalck" (a phrase that probably born
between teachers, was tired of the dumb class will spend the school
material, painting silly things on backboards ).
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ON THIS PARAGRAPH: Tile
on the facade of his house in Atienza and where they remember the
years in which the writer spent there seasons (from 1970 until 2002
when he died). We
miss know that during the years when Carandell went through the
villages of Spain, it was common on Japanese television images of
Atienza and surroundings towns. It was mainly the towns of Sigüenza and Atienza or
Pedraza (while villages very famous), who went out frequently during the
eighties and early nineties in Japanese TV shows where emmited Spanish lessons (or tourism is promoted). This, because those who carried out
these series were in some cases highly skilled, as Professor Hidehito
Higashitani (Spanish language professor, Director of the
University of Himeji). Personalities who not only loved our land; they contacted individuals of great cultural importance in Spain. As
Carandell, who had been stationed in Tokyo three years
(correspondent), who met Higashitani and many others who produced
these programs. That being the case, it was normal that we saw in
Japan weekly towns images as Atienza, Siguenza, Ayllón, Sepúlveda
and Pedraza; especially in the hours that emitted lessons of our
language. Sadly today, those same programs usually talk about
football or sports; with images of American or "Spanish
league". Sometimes being presented by people with a
strong accent from South America, who use ambiguous expressions and
grammatical forms.
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OVER THIS PARAGRAPH: Image
where we see the members of the brotherhoods of Atienza, up to
celebrate at the church, on a Sunday in May. It was one of the great illusions
of the end of life of Carandell, to be named "big brother"
of those brotherhoods of horse racing. Brotherhoods
who take care of the churches on Sundays and May made the famous
festival of horses of Atienza. Saving a medieval tradition, in which the nobles
ran and competed with their horses, dedicating the contest to the
parishes to which they belonged (in a similar way as they do in some
cities of Italy). We thank the brothers, to give permission of these pictures.
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OVER
AND UNDER THIS PARAGRAPH: Up,
a brotherhood passes the arc before heading to his church (one of the many "Cofradías" that are still in Atienza). For
those who have not visited this beautiful villa, we recommend to go;
it is one of the most interesting and beautiful villages in Spain.
Those who already know, suggest them to return during the weekend of
May, where the famous horse festival is held. Under:
Another
brotherhoods of the horses, gathered to hear Mass at the Church of
the Trinity Museum (whom we thank enable us to spread the image).
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UNDER
THIS PARAGRAPH: Some
of the buildings on the street where he lived Luis Carandell (one of
them, the old locksmith). The
writer was of Catalan origin, although their parents left to live in
France at the beginning of the spanish Civil War, and when he had only ten
years old (in 1939). Later, I return with them, to Burgos and
Barcelona, but then came to Madrid to study law. Finally, after going
to Catalonia where he had to do military service, he returned to the
Spanish capital to develop its vocation, as a writer and journalist.
Later, and being married to a Swiss underling, he was posted abroad
for several years as a correspondent. Among them, three years in
Tokyo, where he became interested in origami ("art" that
made good use and better display, while talking on their shows).
In the mid-seventies, set in Madrid and political chronicles begin to
emphasize (especially in "Cuadernos para el diálogo").
Finally jump to fame as a parliamentary reporter, because of his wit
and his enormous culture; attached everything with his sympathy. With the spirit of Carandell; a true artist of the word and imagination.
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IMAGE
BELOW: Again, close to where had his home the reporter. This drinking water
and the streets we see, was walking the man who wrote nearly sixty
books; mostly of travels. From
the first to publish (of Iceland), until the last one edited ("The
most beautiful villages in Spain", whose cover we gathered at the
beginning). In all of them reflected on the idiosyncrasies of the
people, and especially on our country problems and history. A strange
nation that forgets its great monuments and its great men, while
extolling those who try to separate (or sow hatred between them).
A Spain, who has always loved those who tortured, and tortured those
who love it. That is why left to die in bed (crowned king) Ferdinand
VII; while allowed the great general "El Empecinado" was
betrayed and imprisoned by the monarch. Who after assuring that he
could return to his home, he puts the general in a wooden cage to
carry (in Roa de Duero) and there children and elderly insulted and
stoned him. All this in village that Juan Martin -El Empecinado-
was released from the French years before; and where shortly, execute him (after humiliating).
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IMAGES
BELOW: :
Two
news of my little collection imitating "Carandell" that I
began in childhood. At the top the headline of the first new is: THUG BITES A POLICE
DOG. The other dictates: HE RECOGNIZES HIS MUGGER, FOR A BITE THAT
GAVE (clarifying that the bite gave it the victim of mugging). After
reading "Celtiberia Show" and "Celtiberia Bis";
those books that collected newspaper clippings and funny news in
Spain. I decided to make my own collection of curiosities, taken from
various newspapers; work that was done since I was ten years during
long time. Something in my house they liked, because at least I read
the papers completely, if only to find their oddities.
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IMAGES, DOWN: Two
more news from a huge collection that was doing for years,
keeping the oddities published by the newspapers. In
the two it is narrated that the hunter had been hunted by his own
dog. Mentioning that of Honduras, the police had arrested the
murderer dog waiting for what he would do with it, the family of the
dead man. While in the second case, the problem was that the hunter
tried to separate two dogs fighting, and at the moment, one other animal jumped on
his gun and shot the owner. The news makes clear that the police do
not see doubt in the testimony and the account, given by those who
accompanied the deceased (all that I do not see very clear, unless
the dogs also testify).
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UNDER THESE: Speaking about dogs, one of the things that have changed on the cities of Spain, in recent decades; it is that there are no stray dogs. Always
alone, wandering the sidewalks; they rose to see you and greet. His
natural intelligence was of the famous "spanish chucho", and their
survival instincts led them to run if you bent down, to tie the
shoelaces (or to get something that had fallen to the ground). If
what you did was pick up a stone to throw at him; childish habit to
which these dogs were used, as nice as smart (as we see in this
photo). Happy stray dogs wandering in bands with his boss and his
"beautiful", to which all followed; smelling. In response
to outsiders, as a public relations greeted us upon arrival to the town; knowing exactly who was going to deal with love (as nice as suspicious and as distant for hungry).
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IMAGE
BELOW: Another
virtue of having read, and followed from child, Luis Carandell; is to look important details when you travel. As this happy female goat in a bar of Extremadura, chaired every meeting; smoking, with hat and glasses.
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IMAGES
BELOW: Something
that also greatly changed everyday life, are cars. Well
before there were vehicles on the streets like this that we see up
beside me, and fortunately I was able to find a few years ago (as
a relic, a or a classic). Also in street robberies he has changed the
scene. I remember in Seville, when I was doing military service, more
than three decades ago, it was common this scene below: All four
wheels replaced by stones. Especially in some areas where senior
officers warned us, that docked to the soldiers.
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IMAGE
BELOW: Expertise in the monastery of El Escorial; We see the maneuver force to make the bus to pass the entrance arch. And in some respects, things have not changed much
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IMAGE
ABOVE: Some
of it there; Here we see what happens when one goes very fast through
the villages and has not screwed the cap oil well.
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UNDER THESE: Also,
when one has lived the world of Carandell, will cartels looking at
different places. Some being very curious, like this restaurant O
RATO BICHO (the rat bug); but especially this meat shop called
"BRAGUILLAS mmm" (small panties). "Small panties,
hmmm!!!" (is the translation...maybe...).
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IMAGES
BELOW: Another
classic is the names of streets (mainly in small towns) where
it is common this poster we see above, with the name of the STREET of LIFE
AND DEATH; or SONG OF THE MULETEER St.; or street of TASTE THE EGGS. A
beautiful place to live and for sure, every time we give our address,
all people ask us: -"Street to test what?"
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UNDER
THESE LINES:
Must
also mention the names of shops, among which there are motes (perhaps
not very suitable in some cases) or family names. And with a library
with this name. Who can already say that reading is boring ? -... Whitout translation...-.
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IMAGE
BELOW: Finally
and in memory of these things so curious, as Luis
Carandell liked; I bring to this page a "Baby Jesus" (which the
poor are malnourished or have suffered premature aging). I
really don´t know the craftsman this child has modeled; but gives
so much pain (dirty and poorly done) that someone has decided to put
candy near of him (surely, to see if the baby fat -a little-).
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BELOW: :
One
last image, taken near Atienza; where photographing the sunset, they
were these lights wirh the sign of "SOS". Perhaps
as a message from Luis Carandell (from heaven), warning the cultural
deterioration that Spain has been suffering for some years;
especially in the villages, who every day are more abandoned, without
population.
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Con motivo de celebrar que nuestras páginas han superado los tres cientos cincuenta mil lectores, aprovechamos incluir mi música para quienes quieran escucharla.
En primer lugar podremos oir PLÉYADES, sexto movimiento de los doce que tiene mi ballet TARTESSOS, compuesto y terminado cuanto estaba en La Mili en Sevilla, en 1982 (grabación en semidirecto en Japón 1991). PULSAR SOBRE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw1g-OKTqyQ
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Tras ello invito a mis lectores a oir, la primera parte de MAEBASHI (LUZ); una de mis últimas obras. Suite de guitarra que también consta de doce movimientos, compuesta entre 2010 y 2011, dedicada a la ciudad en la que vivo (en Japón). En grabación semidirecta en Japón, pueden escuchar las tres piezas de la primera parte: LUZ (Atardecer, Amanecer y Luz de Maebashi).
PULSAR SOBRE SUS ENLACES:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV8uqxKW434
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM_vIP7Ryyk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM_vIP7Ryyk
Con motivo de celebrar que nuestras páginas han superado los tres cientos cincuenta mil lectores, aprovechamos incluir mi música para quienes quieran escucharla.
En primer lugar podremos oir PLÉYADES, sexto movimiento de los doce que tiene mi ballet TARTESSOS, compuesto y terminado cuanto estaba en La Mili en Sevilla, en 1982 (grabación en semidirecto en Japón 1991). PULSAR SOBRE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw1g-OKTqyQ
.
Tras ello invito a mis lectores a oir, la primera parte de MAEBASHI (LUZ); una de mis últimas obras. Suite de guitarra que también consta de doce movimientos, compuesta entre 2010 y 2011, dedicada a la ciudad en la que vivo (en Japón). En grabación semidirecta en Japón, pueden escuchar las tres piezas de la primera parte: LUZ (Atardecer, Amanecer y Luz de Maebashi).
PULSAR SOBRE SUS ENLACES:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV8uqxKW434
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM_vIP7Ryyk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM_vIP7Ryyk
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