is probably no such activity took place as the writer. You do homage. Awards are given. Meet the glory here on Earth. Because each of his books is celebrated as the birth of a child enduring and not so fleeting and perishable as human.
Not so in the exercise of other trades. It is very likely that the most notable of the neurosurgeons, who saves a life or two a week, does not know in a lifetime celebrations this cluster can be a writer. It is highly unlikely that the anonymous neurosurgeon speaks to the cultural or scientific section of the newspapers to ask them to come and do an interview since only in so far this month has saved five lives. I could not do it or give you grief, unlike the artist who goes from self and becomes his own agent. Why? Because the egg must be cackling. Because even God needs steeples.
But all this makes sense: the writer is an activity of collective interest and its importance can not be measured by its social utility. It is obvious that a jumbo jet pilot or an engineer specializing in strength of materials (so that the buildings do not fall) more justified its reason for being in this world. The futility of art is known for many philosophers. And what happens is that the writer's products reflect, or at least intended to reflect the collective soul and your party is all it is the party of the tribe, as has been watching over one week during the International Book Fair of Guadalajara that today is the world's most important in English.
This year was devoted to Catalan culture and
-apart Llac Lluis concert and presentation of artists such as Enrique Vila-Matas, Albert Sánchez Piñol, and James Ellroy, giving him a very particular character is that Catalonia is not doubt the book publishing capital of the English. Guadalajara therefore converged in almost all publishers from Latin America and Spain, in a great literary festival. In a tribute to the Italian writer and publisher Roberto Calasso, who was awarded the Merit Award for his editorial work on the Adelphi house in Milan, not a few editors talk about their rivalries and competitions, and even envy as motivation than as a all human beings possess often before dawn, when the wolf. Beatriz de Moura, head and heart of editorial Tusquets (which announced a novel Tusquets Prize awarded in Guadalajara for the coming year), he said, to celebrate Calasso, that of the editors is "a very special tribe and capricious , the only one the feeling of envy is so positive and productive and where the biggest rivals are both accomplices. "
Over three days, from Monday to Wednesday, so you can appreciate the intensity of the encounters, conversations between a flag and other, exchange of books, new or reconfirmed the relationship between authors and publishers.
So in this event the enthusiasm of the readers in their encounters with novelists and poets of this body, there in front of them, flesh and blood, which promotes the most interesting experiences.
are so many book presentations and appearances by authors in person very often the audience has to sacrifice a session on the other. Or attend the dialogue between Paco Ignacio Taibo II and James Ellroy, author of The Black Dahlia and LA Confidential, or adding to the hundreds of readers who are listening to Elmer Mendoza when he talks about his latest novel written in English half Sinaloa and transnational drug traffickers as it has Action in Argentina and Spain: effect tequila.
James Ellroy looks black but is not. Neither is very white. And intervened in the suit conference track and field, as if he'd be jogging in the park. It's a great storyteller criminals and recreates the city of Los Angeles in the 50's, the only period that is passionate about the history of their country. Makes no friends with intellectuals and is closely related to police in their leisure time. He says he does not read newspapers or see television newscasts. His message is: you have to escape the media like the plague. Otherwise it can be isolated and work, except that only reads fiction to keep alive his fantasy. There is a man of ideas or theories, or at least I intended. Speak, for example, Tijuana without transcending the stereotype coined about this city that for some is the Northwest New York.
Barcelona The cartel
Enrique Vila-Matas
deserve a complete and exclusive. It was the great literary personality of the show. A serious man, a sense of humor (literary) absolutely original and somewhat Kafkaesque.
Moreover, in other presentations and in this racket, he turned to find that the Mexican writer and in general the Latin American-still waiting, needing and seeking the blessing of Europe: the editorial approval of Mother Spain to complete as a writer. The literary standing is now achieved in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bas before in Paris. So while the writer of this side is not published in Spain feels it is not.
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