Álvaro Mutis, poet and writer, always needs the reader Mutis, of whom there is something astonishing, unexpected; This anthology offers something of that lesser-known figure, to whom we turn to look at above the century.
To make up De lecturas y otras celebraciones, several texts were recovered that until now had not been collected in book form and that their author was willing to let lose. The discovery and recovery of these articles is due to the work of many endearing writers such as: Eliseo Diego, Álvaro Cunqueiro, Anna Akhmatova Miguel de Ferdinandy, Jorge E. Eielson, José Lins do Rego...
In everything we do now for Álvaro Mutis (particularly on the centenary of his birth), we will also do it for us, his readers, if we want to escape from this "macabre carnival", as he often called our time.
