English
For some time to this part there seems to be increasingly unstoppable progress in the worlds of small, of tiny. Both in the world of cutting-edge science, dominated by quantum investigations around the invisible subatomic particles and the increasingly decisive advances in the fields of nanotechnology, as in the communications, note the unstoppable rise of messages text and its strong trend towards ever smaller forms, as in the artistic creation on the footsteps of writers such as Lichtenberg, Nietzsche, Monterroso or Robert Walser, author between 1924 and 1932 of several hundred of typed pages known as micrograms in which not necessarily the sentences are shortened but the font size, shrinks to a point where it becomes unreadable, it took the students of his work and Werner Morlang Bernhard Echte over 15 years to decipher him convincingly.
Walser himself seems to have suggested in a letter that his decision to move to write ridiculously tiny had somewhat to do with a desire or willingness to surrender to the dissolution of the writing itself, through which is possible to see the opening of accessing anything that justifies it. The truth is that micrograms dealing with common issues by the Swiss writer reflects a taste for walking and rambling thst are clearly defined,a passion for detail and the ephemeral seems to jump and grab you by surprise. This is an aesthetic method that has characterized much of the artistic vanguard of the last hundred or a hundred and fifty years, a way of being in a world that resonates powerful as in the book of Vila-Matas Brief History of portable literature, a volume of just over 100 pages whose importance has grown over the past three decades in inverse proportion to its small size.
In another vein, together with the increasingly frequent publication of short stories called “Micrologías” or Minimum Arts, expressions such microtheater or micropoetry are proliferating lately
The Palau de la Música Catalana, one of the brightest jewels of modern architecture seems to join this trend this summer, offering throughout August an unusual daily program of thirty microconciertos called Palau minute 30´ (http://wwww.palaumusica.org/Noticias2011_N_20110727_Palau30-es_ES/seccion=443&idioma=es_ES&id=2011072619030001&activo=8.do).
The quality factor is the only common denominator of the selected artists, whose spectrum range from popular Catalan music legends like the Majorcan Maria del Mar Bonet to a tribute to the gypsy jazz of Django Reinhardt to an interesting Catalan Japanese piano and castanet recital
These are just some of the proposals as this exciting program should not be missed when you rent accommodation in Barcelona if you believe in the Spanish proverb thats says that if its good, it´s brief, it´s two time as good.
