The Spanish-Peruvian writer Fernando Iwasaki told Efe that “booksellers survive the digital catastrophe” and that, “unlike the printed book, Kindle second or third hand will always be a gadget” .
As every year, the University of Seville, in complicity with the booksellers of the Andalusian city, published a volume that is a sort of tribute to haul books and sentimental education of readers and writers, and this edition, entitled “We are books, always let us be,” he corresponded to Iwasaki, historian by training and writer by vocation.
The author noted that a book like yours, “dedicated to the booksellers, libraries stationery set and the ropavejeros can afford to be Taliban in defense of the printed book. “
” Every time someone announces the end of the printed book and small bookshops, I suspect that actually refers to that part of the publishing industry that has nothing to do with literature, like the memories of politicians, journalists cookbooks, novels cooks or self-help manuals ” , listed the author.
With the survival of booksellers who believes guaranteed Iwasaki, will gain “classic readers, minority authors and titles of all those expectorated digital supermarket for not having sold enough. “
” Contrary to what some think, the printed book is not inconsistent with e-books, “said the author of the novel by Cervantes aires” tooth decay should “who considered humorously that” more well, incompatibilities occur in the computer and digital world itself, “and cited his” Word 2003 is unable to open a docx file “and Microsoft left” lying to users of Windows XP “.
By this accumulation of adverse circumstances, quoted Umberto Eco. “I am not apocalyptic, but only an integrated is out of date”
“We are books, always let us be,” he added, is “a literary homage to the national anthem of Peru, whose verse begins with the phrase We are free, always let us be. “
He designed the book cover with allusive signs to bookstores in Lima and Seville in a sort of “collage of death notices library” because none exists already, “even the Lima library Viceroy continues at Miguel Dasso”.
“We are books, let us be always is the closest thing to an attic or storage room because bookstores share a family resemblance with antique shops, grocery stores, flea flea markets, the obituary writers and Tackle write … ” added the Author
Iwasaki recalled that two years in one of his regular newspaper articles, offered an exchange does. We would Kindle who would deliver a copy of the edition of “Ocnos” that published the former’s Luis Cernuda Foundation in 1992, “but the generous reader that he gave me he had more fear I the appliance: Do not wish that on my grandson !, he confessed horror”.
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