Sant Jordi breathes hard again. Book Day, which has Barcelona as its epicenter, and which is shared by numerous locations, will be held this year with great expectations of participation and an increase in space for bookstore stalls.
The Cultura/s supplement of La Vanguardia joins the celebration with a 64-page special. Its pages open with an original graphic project by Jorge Carrión and Ana Galvañ on the cycles of the book, which makes visible its passage from nature to paper, to the printing press, to bookstores, until it reaches the human spirit.
The thinker and philosopher Nuccio Ordine tells us: "We must ask questions of the classics." The various types of book censorship and the legendary 'book women' of the Appalachian mountains give rise to two separate reports.
The supplement offers the recommendations of our specialists in the fields of narrative in Catalan, Spanish, international; police, new trends, human interest; of history, biography, art, music, cinema and comics. Also children's and youth literature, journalism, cultural essay and current affairs, poetry, classics....
For yet another year, the preparation of the Cultura/s de Sant Jordi supplement leads those of us who do it to congratulate ourselves on the privilege of working on literary information, and of having a festival like that of April 23, which without exaggeration can It can be said that it is the most prominent and brilliant in the world of its kind.
