Literature is the protagonist of the week at CaixaForum+
A documentary explores the fascinating biography of the creative couple formed by Jane and Paul Bowles. On Thursday 27 July, five new episodes of Backstage will arrive on the platform with a marked literary accent. In this series of original CaixaForum+ interviews, leading professionals from different areas who have met at the CaixaForum centres talk about their careers, share their experiences and reflect on fields as diverse as fashion, film, science, music and comics, among others.
The five episodes of Backstage that will premiere on 27 July feature five of the most renowned writers on the contemporary Spanish literary scene:
Literature between the seams: María Dueñas, author of the bestseller El tiempo entre costuras, tells us how she came to writing late in life and talks about her creative processes and the relevant places that mark her novels.
We look into the abysses of writing: The writer Enrique Vila-Matas (El mal de Montano, Bartleby y compañía, Montevideo) talks about how literature is a world apart which, in turn, is connected to reality, to the point of not knowing where reality and fiction begin and end.
Writing and love: The novelist and poet Eva Baltasar (Permafrost, Boulder) takes a journey through the concept of love in her stories; because reading, like creating, is an act of love.
Writing as escape: Laura Fernández (Connerland, Mrs. Potter is not exactly Father Christmas), journalist, literary and music critic and author of six novels translated into several languages, tells us about her creative process and her references.
Achieving bad writing: The poet and writer Alejandro Zambra (Bonsai, La vida privada de los árboles) gives us an insight into the experience of "writing badly", the processes of his writing and his creative evolution.
On 27 July, Maps of Water and Sand (1991), a documentary that shows the life trajectory shrouded in mystery of Jane Bowles, the North American playwright and novelist who ended her days in Malaga, will premiere at CaixaForum+. Its director, Javier Martín-Domínguez, initially intended to document the life of the famous writer Paul Bowles (The Sheltering Sky), but along the way, he came across the brilliance of his wife, a restless and complex creator who the documentary claims as an author on her own merits.
In Maps of Water and Sand. The Lives of Jane and Paul Bowles, the famous author of The Spider's House and Let Her Fall reconstructs, from his vantage point in Tangiers, his nomadic life, surrounded by the testimonies of those who lived through the city's golden age, such as Emilio Sanz de Soto and Mohamed Mrabet. Travel, music and literature intertwine to create a biographical portrait of both Paul and Jane Bowles.
On 27 July, the fourth instalment of La Caverna arrives at CaixaForum+, a series of interviews in which a group of artists who have taken part in the Temporada Alta festival reflect on their careers, the performing arts and the world of creation, accompanied by other artists, journalists and international personalities from the world of culture.
Some of the guests who have visited La Caverna include Angélica Liddell, Romeo Castellucci and Declan Donnellan, the British stage director who starred in the previous episode of the series, already available on the platform. In this new episode, author, theatre director and filmmaker Christiane Jatahy talks to film director Isaki Lacuesta about his ways of telling stories and the differences between stage and audiovisual media.
La Caverna is one of the contents that form part of the Temporada Alta channel, a CaixaForum+ space dedicated to the performing arts. Also available on the channel are the seven episodes of El pódcast de Temporada Alta and the short films Restos de cosas, The Missing Part and Migranland.
