?Sera buena persona el cocinero? / Could the Cook Be a Good Person?

Javier Marias

Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Country
Spain
Published
21 June 2022
Pages
304
ISBN
9788420461816

?Sera buena persona el cocinero? / Could the Cook Be a Good Person?

Javier Marias

El nuevo libro de articulos de Javier Marias

Una mirada incomoda, certera y brillante sobre la sociedad de hoy

Este volumen reune los noventa y cinco articulos publicados por Javier Marias en el suplemento dominical El Pais Semanal entre el 3 de febrero de 2019 y el 24 de enero de 2021.
Han caducado los tiempos en que la gente se tomaba en serio la promesa hecha, la palabra dada, que todavia los ninos de mi infancia llamaban palabra de honor . Somos una sociedad desenfadada y ademas lo tenemos a gala (bueno, en todo lo demas muy enfadada) , dice Javier Marias en uno de los articulos de este libro.

En una epoca en la que la realidad se muestra insistente, repetitiva y tozuda, el autor invita a sus lectores, en cada una de las piezas recogidas en ?Sera buena persona el cocinero?, a detenerse y reflexionar libremente, sin atender a demagogias ni manipulaciones, sobre los mas diversos aspectos del tiempo presente. Y lo hace como lo ha hecho siempre: con valentia, sin concesiones, y con un estilo impecable y un envidiable sentido del humor.

La sociedad actual, olvidadiza y pretendidamente virtuosa, lidia con una opinion publica que se erige como juez intransigente e injusto de todo y todos los que se alejan de los canones de conducta impuestos en los ultimos anos. Por ello, defiende el autor, se hace mas necesario que nunca mantener un pensamiento critico. Tal vez lo malo no sea nunca tanto lo que nos pasa, cuanto lo que nos hacen creer que nos pasa , recuerda que escribio en una ocasion su padre, Julian Marias. Y anade: Porque lo segundo hoy suena muy grave, y lo primero no lo es tanto, solo un poco, y a ratos .

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A new book of articles by renowned author Javier Marias.

An uncomfortable, yet accurate, and brilliant look at today’s society.

This volume compiles the ninety-five articles published by Javier Marias in the Sunday supplement El Pais Semanal between February 3, 2019, and January 24, 2021.

Those times when people took seriously any promise they made, or when they gave their word, which in my childhood we called it word of honor, are long gone. We are a carefree society, and we love to put it on display (well, in everything else we are very rigid) , says Javier Marias in one of the articles in this book.

At a time when reality is demanding, repetitive, and stubborn, the author invites his readers, in each of these articles, to stop and reflect freely, without paying attention to demagoguery or manipulations, on the most diverse aspects of these current times. And he does it as he has always done: bravely, without compromise, with impeccable style, and with an enviable sense of humor.

Today’s society, forgetful and supposedly righteous, deals with a public opinion that stands as an unyielding and unfair judge of everything and everyone who deviates from the rules of conduct imposed in recent years. For this reason, the author defends that it is more important than ever to uphold and sustain critical thinking. Perhaps the bad thing isn’t so much what happens to us, as what they make us believe happens to us, he recalls that his father, Julian Marias, once wrote.

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