Booklovers - Season 1 (2023)

Is translation Argentina's main cultural hallmark? In this episode we try possible answers to that question in emblematic book spaces of Buenos Aires, such as La Librería de Ávila, El Ateneo Grand Splendid, La Internacional Argentina o Eterna Cadencia, the Legislature Library or the Proa Foundation, with interviews with Miguel Ávila, Francisco Garamona and Leila Guerriero. And with the edition of a book by Eloísa Cartonera.

Is Madrid a collage city? We try to answer that question in such literary places as the Office of the writer Ramón Gómez de la Serna, the Julio Cortázar library at the Juan March Foundation, the Ivorypress collection of artist books, the Rafael Alberti bookstore or the Cuesta de Moyano, while We spoke with Gabriela Wiener, Lola Larumbe, Valerie Maasburg and Elena Medel. And with the Forest Library by Miguel Ángel Blanco.

Can we say that globalization began in the capital of Portugal? That question is the common thread of this trip through the Ler Devagar, Bertrand and Travessa bookstores, the National Library of Portugal and that of the Gulbenkian Foundation, or the José Saramago Foundation, together with José Pinho, Pilar del Río, Maria Inês Cordeiro and Alberto Manguel. And the spoken word of Telma Tvon. .

Can Mexico City be interpreted as a violent dialogue between water and fire? To answer that question, we visited its most famous bookstores (such as Rosario Castellanos), but also the newest or most secret ones, we toured its iconic libraries (Vasconcelos, La Ciudadela, Nacional), we walked along Donceles Street and interviewed Max Ramos, Elena Poniatowska, Socorro Venegas and Mario Belatin. And with graffiti from La Mosca Crew.

Why did modernism fill Barcelona with plant motifs? What is the secret message of all that ceramic or stone flora? To try to answer that question and show the bookish dimension of the city, we visited the palacio del Baró de Quadras (headquarters of the Ramon Llull Institute), the Mercat de Sant Antoni, the Library of the Water Deposit and the Gabriel García Márquez, the Supercomputing Center and the bookstores +Bernat, Nollegiu, La Calders, Ona, La Central, La Petita and Finestres. With interviews with the booksellers Montse Serrano and Xavier Vidal, the writer Enrique Vila-Matas, the editor Jorge Herralde and the children's illustrator Rocio Bonilla. And with Núria Guiu's dance.