{"product_id":"zona-a-defender","title":"Defensive zone","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA committed book about the world we live in and the one we must leave as a legacy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eManuel Rivas's literature once again intervenes in the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a world focused on economic and industrial performance, this book offers a hopeful and literary perspective on the need to drive a change in the meaning of words such as \"society,\" \"nature,\" \"power,\" \"individual,\" \"culture,\" or \"creation,\" and to find a space for reflection on what we are missing. On every page, the author's social and ecological commitment, his sensitivity, his irony, and the beauty of his prose shine through.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the world, the areas to be defended should multiply. What should be most defended is the most vulnerable. The most insecure. Mayday!\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI defend an international of indocile consciences that will no longer let complacent consciences sleep.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI defend possibility. The first step is to say: \"It is possible.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI defend the possibility of being human.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI defend a republic of equals, a break with corruption.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI defend a new social contract with nature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI defend a fertile austerity, a creative abundance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI defend a solitary solidarity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI defend a new imaginative language against the politics of harm.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI defend a bruised humor, sabotaging dogmatism with irony.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI defend a feminism that emancipates women and frees men from \"masculine hysteria.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI defend decolonizing the imagination, telling stories to hold up the sky.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI defend a new struggle for freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI defend the prohibition of gun ownership, with one exception: laughter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI defend agreement between generations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI defend the art of listening, I defend seeing what is not \"well seen.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI defend affective democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI defend overly long books, overly slow movies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI defend the art of falling. I defend thinking the unthinkable.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI shadowbox. I walk through the ailing horizon. Rebellious pessimism goes hand in hand with indocile hope.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMANUEL RIVAS\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCritics have said:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e«Manuel Rivas has written a forceful book: \u003ci\u003eAgainst All This. \u003c\/i\u003eSounding the bugle, for rebellion. Are we heading towards utopia or dystopia? What can be changed in this shoddy world? To be read in (civil) campaign attire.»\u003cbr\u003eLuisgé Martín\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«A declaration of intentions of existential maturity. A committed book about the world we live in that proposes a change of perspective, from hope and literature.»\u003cbr\u003eJoana Bonet, \u003ci\u003eUppers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«Written with a lyricism that makes every page sweetly savored [and] in tune with an indignation increasingly represented by thinkers, Manuel Rivas transports the reader to a better world, a possible world. A necessary essay, especially in these times when the pandemic has distanced us even further from our elders, but which at the same time has served to show that the system we live in is neither fair nor effective.»\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAhora Qué Leo\u003c\/i\u003e, La Sexta\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«A distress signal in the form of a book where he exposes himself without reserve and his only defensive weapon is words. [...] Manuel Rivas looks good in the park and is a witness to the great oral narrator he is. He hypnotizes you.»\u003cbr\u003eMarta de la Calzada, \u003ci\u003eTelva\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ctab\u003e \u003c\/tab\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«An incursion into committed and revolutionary writing.»\u003cbr\u003eElena Sierra, \u003ci\u003ePergola - Periódico BILBAO Aldizkaria\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«Rivas is an undisputed classic.»\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Scotsman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«Manuel Rivas is an important narrator because he is sensitive and has an incredible ear that, in his fiction, is allied with great integrity.»\u003cbr\u003eJohn Berger\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«Rivas reveals the soul of spaces, what they guard or contain as an emblem of the character of a people.»\u003cbr\u003eAna Rodríguez Fischer, \u003ci\u003eBabelia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«An author who knows how to introduce poetry not only into his sentences, but also into his way of seeing the world.»\u003cbr\u003eRaphaëlle Rérolle,  \u003ci\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«Rivas never loses faith in the human capacity to overcome the darkest of situations.»\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manuel Rivas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43536064479480,"sku":"9788420439310","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/4897\/5608\/products\/AL3931C.jpg?v=1671632526","url":"https:\/\/ellector.com.pa\/es\/products\/zona-a-defender","provider":"Librerías El Lector Panamá","version":"1.0","type":"link"}