Agua y jabón: apuntes sobre elegancia involuntaria
Littérature (biographies), Littérature
Audio avec voix humaine
Résumé
"Cecil Beaton was asked: what is elegance? And he answered: soap and water. Which is the same as saying: elegance is the simple, the useful, the lifelong. Unintentional elegance is associated with a generous gesture, with discreet joy, with the… person who contributes and appeases. The book is divided into three parts: "Temperaments", "Objects" and "Places"... Soap and Water speaks of the love of public libraries, cheap humor, maps, the Cirlot family, Paul Léautaud, the unbeatable charm of little birds, the wandering walk, suspicious hippies, old pastry shops, trains and zeppelins, Bruno Munari, Fleur Cowles, our parents' honeymoon trips, Wagner's Venice, storytelling dogs, eating fruit straight from the tree, kitsch and camp, the flea market, Josep Pla, manias, tricorns, blankets, Snoopy, sweeping our piece of sidewalk, Giorgio Morandi, Carlos Barral, Ricardo Bofill, surfing, wool, cheese, gardens. What is collected in Soap and Water is the result of an intuitive and disorderly trajectory. There are old loyalties and other recent ones. There is, above all, silence, admiration, patience and a predilection for the closest reality." -- Translation provided by NLS