that was it Centennial of the BookstoreIt is intended to change the look of the then monarchy’s capital, which Don Felipe’s great-grandfather inaugurated on the Gran Vía in Madrid a hundred years ago. Great-grandson last night meant a continuum, a cultural reflection of a country that has the philosopher as the apparent head of the intelligentsia. Jose Ortega and Gasset and industrial culture trade Nicholas de Urgoiti.
Years later, those green uniforms are still there. Casa del Libro has 54 bookstores in Spain and continues a tradition started as an ongoing innovation: fences in bookstores were lifted, doors opened and readers came in search of valuable goods (cheap or expensive). ) could touch the books as if they were written. It was the bookstore that removed the border of the counter.
There are only a few bookstores in Barcelona that have surpassed this in the tradition of the time, Bertrand. Before the hall is full Fine Arts CircleHome to this stellar moment Planet (The group that controls La Casa del Libro) a few hundred meters from the royal headquarters of the former Casa del Libro, a connotation of Nino Bravo rang in the air, “light luggage for such a long journey”. Valencia’s tune was immediately revealed, because the trunk of books, if true, enlightens the mind, blows it away, and the journey begins.
he said Jose CrehuerasHouse and Book match (or Snap) where the invincible nature of the book is found as a sign of a better life: a reader’s life.
The best assistant, said the president Spanish Publishers Association, Daniel Fernández, “Because it helps those who want to be better, those who satisfy their needs with books.” Julia Navarrolong time customer (bought there the day before yesterday Two Bookstore’s Irene Nemirowski) has this idea of why such an establishment has lasted a hundred years: “Because it does it well and stays connected to reality and readers, so it preserves the good things of the past and all that presents the present. As a student, he sought history and now the classics and the modern. looking for, that’s right, among them he has to come across his own books.
Casa del Libro summoned two Planeta writers to acknowledge the joy of the event. also a reflection of the parent company’s editorial strength. Carmen Posadas wrote the beginning of the upcoming centennial story and Maria Duenas He talked about his relationship with the bookstore, where he brought books to his father during his lifetime, when he was a student at the University of Madrid from Alicante.
He is now also the reader of La Casa del Libro, where he travels through his own fictions. She told the journalist that the first thing she bought from here when she was a girl were books on Latin and philology published by Gredos. He now speaks Latin, or at least is one of the writers who best illustrates the teaching that the classics gave him in prose. “La Casa del Libro had the talent and intelligence to adapt to the new trade without losing its spirit.”
Fernando Benzothe last Azores reward with (announcing the planet) persecuted (Coming April 12) knows that the first thing he will do when his book is published is to go to La Casa del Libro (he has done this in all three of his previous novels), to see if they’ve been placed before. on the shelves, “as if it didn’t exist until then”. The dean of Spanish cultural journalists said the bookstore was “empathy and spirit”. Sergio Vila Sanjuan. “A cultural business works if it has a soul, a concrete justification, a life.”
The book is safe. After years of uncertainty, this centennial, Crehueras said, reinforces a hope that includes the terms: House And book, at the core of its meaning: a refuge for the reader to defend freedom of knowledge.
When the words dispersed, the kings moved into the picture. A solid volume, decorated with old photographs from the past, in yellow and black, in which Doña Letizia and Don Felipe stare as if they were going to the first stone thrown by their grandfather, is an editorial copy of the veneration of the past. Grandfather. In the subject area of that volume, in the colors of the present, Many writers explain the future in which they were born with their books.
A hymn, sung by children, adolescents, adults, set the counterpoint of the audience. Nino Bravo talked about the long journey. These singers invited those who are now celebrating their second centennial to continue the chorus that expresses this belief: “There is a world like a dream”.
It is the unpublished hymn of the century. At this hour in 1923, when Gran Vía opened a bookstore, there were twenty-three voices to shoot. It was still sunny last night when the kings said goodbye to your grandfather’s bookstore.