2023-04-28 01:30:43
The closure of the inauguration ceremony of the 47th Buenos Aires International Book Fair was in charge of the renowned writer Martin Kohanwho, before a full auditorium, gave a speech in which he went through various topics related to literature and philosophy.
“The Book Fair is filled with authors, editors, translators, promoters, broadcasters; it is filled with visitors or passers-by, with buyers and sellers, but all those figures gathered and combined, distributed and intertwined, They only summon another figure that gives meaning to everything: the reader.”, stated the author before the attentive gaze of the public.
In his presentation, the most anticipated of the day, Kohan pointed out: “It’s not that I don’t like cracks, they can fascinate me, but when they are not between exploiters and exploited at my discretion lose their grace a bit”.
“The Book Fair takes place in an inappropriate place” and in a “transitory” time, Kohan highlighted, “Supply dung and whistling for books and round tables” or “implants names of rooms with a grinding effect” he asserted regarding the dynamics of neighborhood marketing that activates the literary scene during three populous weeks in the Palermo neighborhood.
Before the traditional ribbon cutting, Kohan proposed thinking regarding the fair “from its access and egress points” to “think regarding it in relation to your environment”, in “relation to its outside”.
The writer noticed that “there are things that do not spill” such as “wealth, for the rich are never satisfied» and that «there are things that, on the other hand, do, for example, frequenting books, the habit of reading, the taste for literary conversation.
“Conversations by themselves do not have to be placid, harmonious, sweetened or guided by a desire for consensus,” he warned. Raised discussions, heated as they say, vehement and even exasperated, are forms of conversation too”.
“I think of David Viñas’ big voice, but also of Horacio González’s smooth modulations; I think of the firmness of the strictness of Beatriz Sarlo, but also of the appeal to the edge of the irony of Tulio Halperín Donghi ”, he added.
The Fair as a framework for the “general outcry”
In his opinion, “the background noise of the Fair provides the conversations with an adequate framework” because “It is only in the midst of the general shouting that poets measure verses or set them free, that playwrights assemble or disassemble scenes, that essayists rehearse, that narrators plot fictions with which they will challenge the truth.
“Noise: the Fair is a fair, voices of buying and selling sound, as they sound at all fairs”, of “literature and small markets”, he noted: “things do not change when we get tired, when we change the subject; we get tired and things are still there, intact, as if nothing had happened. The truth tires us sometimes, but that doesn’t stop it from being true. That truth is at the Fair”.
Source: Telam
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