It is sometimes necessary to move away to better appreciate the beings and the places. What hasn’t been said, for example, regarding the coldness of the halls of Palexpo, a welcoming place since 1987 and organizer of the Geneva Book Fair? And then came the covid years, in 2020 and 2021, then, in 2022, a problem of overlapping dates with the Paris Book Fair: for three years, the Geneva fair had to reinvent itself outside the walls, split into various small town places. No more large gatherings of all audiences, no more publishers’ stands. This parenthesis ends today with the grand return of the show to its original quarters.
