Librerias

Finalista Premio Anagrama de Ensayo

Librerias - Jorge Carrión - Anagrama
Publisher name: 
Anagrama
Year of publication: 
2013
Pages: 
344
Book size:
14x22cm
Weight: 422.4 g
Binding: 
Soft cover

What is the meaning of bookstores in the collective imagination? What is its role in the history of ideas and letters? In this brilliant and amiable essay, Jorge Carrión creates a possible chronology of the development of bookstores and their artistic representation. How they became cultural myths, centers of social gatherings or atalayas of political resistance. The Strand of New York, the Parisian Shakespeare and Company and La Hune, Librairie des Colonnes de Tangier, Bertrand and Ler Devagar in Lisbon, Stanfords in London, Virrey in Lima, Lello in Porto, La Central and Laie in Barcelona, ​​la Bookstore of Ávila and Eterna Cadencia of Buenos Aires, Antonio Machado in Madrid, City Lights and Green Apple Books in San Francisco, bookshops of the Fund of Economic Culture in Mexico City or Bogota ... These and many other surviving bookstores parade in these pages, along with others that ...read more

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Book: Librerias

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