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Guadalajara.- "The Thousand and One Nights", "Luz de Agosto" and "Rayuela" are some of the books that came to light in a conversation in which prices Cervantes Ida Vitale and Sergio Ramírez They exchanged anecdotes about their literary pbadions and their favorite works.
The Uruguayan and Nicaraguayen were the protagonists of the gala "The pleasure of reading ", organized as part of the International Book Fair (FIL) of Guadalajara and in which the American author also participated Valerie Miles.
Vitale stated that, as a teenager, he lived near a large bookstore in which the seller's criterion for setting prices was weight; that is, it charged less for lighter volumes.
He learned that "the book is not only the origin of a reading, but a pleasant object, precious, to have in the hands".
For her, "there is no experience like going to a bookstore and choosing the book by its title, its cover, its name or because by flipping through letters or sentences, we take out the paw", and c 'Perhaps for this reason – he risked – he is not convinced idea' to buy books remotely '.
The veteran poet has named Julio Cortázar as the first Latin American author to have aroused in her emotions: "In" Rayuela ", I was fascinated by the fact that someone could speak from a city like mine, with a language that was mine. "
Speaking about the approach to reading, Ramírez emphasized the importance of forbidden books, which "constitute the best way to read".
He recalled how, in his childhood, among his friends, circulated a volume written on "a perverse countess, which was the most attractive thing that can be".
The Uruguayan told, as anecdote, that at 14 she intended to read "The Arabian Nights" and asked a friend's father to lend it to her.
The man gave it to him the next day, but yes, some parts being covered with virgin leaves; an attempt at "censorship" that did not work, because Vitale still read these pbadages.
Miles said that with "Madame Bovary", he understood "why books are banned" and why some people view literature as "dangerous".
Gustave Flaubert, "He got the truth about a character in such a way that I learned things that I did not know that there could be in me."
A comment from Vitale opened the door to talk about the re-readings. In this sense, his favorite is "The Magic Mountain" by Thomas Mann, in which he has already been six times.
Miles chose "El Quijote" as his favorite: "Now you hear about new narrative techniques and all that was already there, Cervantes was completely postmodern".
And Ramírez mentioned, besides the masterpiece of Miguel de Cervantes, "Guerra y Paz" by Leon Tolstoy, although he added that one of the risks of returning to the old readings is that we can be disappointed.
He also pointed out that, over time, he had become "a writer"; that is, trying to "disarm the book" to see "how it is built". This, he continues, partially removes "the pure and simple pleasure of reading."
When asked if they would read the work of an author who is perceived as a "bad person", Ramírez replied that it was not a problem. an obstacle, while his stories "are not contaminated by an ethical thought or behavior" reprehensible.
For example, "I had a lot of prejudices to read (Louis-Ferdinand) Celine, because he was accompanied by macho, Nazi celebrity" and yet he avoided those prejudices to read "Journey to the end of the night".
At the time when they listed the books that they considered the most "endearing", Ramírez mentioned "Luz de Agosto" by William Faulkner and "Pedro Páramo" by Juan Rulfo. In turn, Miles quoted Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland".
"A book that leaves you symbols, characters, references, it's a book that we no longer judge literally, it makes us come in and is part of us," said the Uruguayan.
From last Saturday to December 2nd, Guadalajara FIL gathered 800 authors in the capital of Jalisco (western Mexico), with Portugal as a guest of honor. EFE
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