By Eduardo Garcia Aguilar
International Fair Quito's book, which took place from 19 to 27 November in the Ecuadorian capital, is an example of the humanistic trends in the book, as far from rampant commercialization and dumbing prevailing in other fairs, such as Guadalajara and Frankfurt, this literature, reading, poetry and narrative non-commercial use at the center of debate in the context of efforts by Latin American cultural decolonization.
On a hot act Itchimbía Cultural Center, in an old kiosk surrounded by huge tents to protect the public crowded the rain, on a hill where the city is the singer Piero opened the show with a concert that showed the younger generation who knew the protest songs with the singer seduced her time to several generations of Latin American rebels or dissidents.
Minister of Culture of Ecuador in his inaugural address stressed the importance of the continent to follow in this new stream of cultural decolonization to overcome the spirit of bondage to the continent was taken decades ago by the hand of neoliberal extremist tendencies, led by political leaders like Nobel and former presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa.
The book has been turned into a good of the worst stripe and Latin American writers were turned into clerks of the English multinational publishers, forcing them to write a piece of scandal or books easy to read, with topics often dictated from the office as marketing trends.
time in Latin America was an independent publisher with great power prestige and South publishers, Emecé, South America and Losada, Argentina, Ercilla in Chile, Monte Avila in Venezuela, Third World, Myth and Eco in Colombia of course with the greatest of all, still remains independent, the Mexican Fondo de Cultura Economica.
Now English multinationals have monopolized all the literary, impoverishing the general level, dividing the writers, creating literary gods of clay and placing them in an absurd competition from upstarts to see which is the most sold or shown in the field entertainment and show business with their poor literary productions written by steaming.
worst thing is that many of these stars have been easy to believe the story and be convinced of the great luminaries of Latin American literature, when only disposable products designated by the "peacemakers" English literature, current Pablo Morillo or viceroys Samano editing.
Organizers of the literary meetings of the International Fair of Quito, Correa and Guido Antonio Tamayo, have made a program where Ecuadorian authors from all regions shared with foreign guests, in a spirit of conversation and discussion of others the false fame put together in other book fairs for marketing officers of English literature.
From the beautiful old Itchimbía kiosk overlooking the city still human, which has not been completely devoured by the god car, guests Ecuadorians, Peruvians, Mexicans, Central Americans, Bolivians, Argentines, Venezuelan and Colombian spent happy days in that environment bookseller humanist, without emulation vain, that the national authorities of Ecuador and of Pichincha region have seen fit to support with enthusiasm.
International Book Fair of Quito should be an example for other Latin American international bookshops fairs that have been completely colonized by the English viceroys of the year, who come to finger pick the contemporary literary canon of the continent with esbrirros submissive support of their local bestsellers, swollen with vanity, careerism and banality.
Here in Ecuador there was no cult of personality for writers present, or large posters, authors or court surrounded by morons and uncritical admirers. There were human beings who write and read, not products and buyers. And this was the lesson of the International Book Fair Quito: Latin American authors that spirit we lead and decolonization and revolt against the impositions of traders from Spain think they have gone back to the time before independence. So back to the times of Alfonso Reyes, Juan Rulfo, Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, José María Arguedas, Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Carlos Onetti, Salvador Garmendia, Salvador Elizondo, Juan Garcia Ponce and José Lezama Lima, among other large, received no orders English publishers rich.
Enough of the dictatorial Carmen Balcells, the Lara of the planet, which awards all know are corrupt traps, the Alfaguara Polanco's Prisa and that can make best-seller up to a cow, and Jorge Herralde (who arbitrarily anoint finger in his office to the authors of the overseas colonies). All of them have become the contemporary Latin American literature and a English Vanity Fair and savage competition of shopkeepers and puppets manipulated from its scenarios truncated.
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