Antiquarian bookstores in Mexico. Notes and winks from La Galera (original) (raw)

2020

Abstract

This is an essay that became a book that talks about old-fashioned bookstores, mainly from the late 20th century, in Mexico. It can be read from several optics, but the primary intention is to establish a physical map of the real historical state, relatively close, to look at its internal structures from there. The bookstores, in addition to being shops of words and ideas, are free meeting centers, training centers for citizens and venues for the integration of multiple artistic-humanistic expressions. Its symbolic presence revitalizes the cultural life of every city and its absence limits the inhabitants to live in a wasteland of horrible silences. Taking into account this shot of ideas, this print seeks to stand without romanticism or fictitious images; Although old-fashioned bookstores can be magical places inhabited by incomparable beings - books, booksellers, readers - in the end they are shops and homes with a postal code where - it is true - the written word reigns.Este es un...

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