Jorge Carrión

Librerias Jorge Carrión

What is the significance of bookshops in the collective imagination? What is their role in the history of ideas and letters? In this brilliant and accessible essay, Jorge Carrión creates a possible chronology of the development of books and their artistic representation. How do they become cultural myths, centers of intellectual conversation, or fortresses of political resistance? The Strand in New York, Shakespeare and Company in Parisand la Librairie des Colonnesin Tangier, Bertrand and Ler Devagar in Lisbon, Stanfords in London, El Virrey in Lima, Lello in Porto, La Central and Laie in Barcelona, la Libreria in Avila and Eterna Cadencia in Buenos Aires, Antonio Machado in Madrid, City Lights and Green Apple Books in San Francisco, the bookshopsof the Fondo de Cultura Economica in Mexico City and Bogota.