At an adverse situation, a public publishing house to collect Buenos Aires cultural multiplicity through various genres, styles and authors. They will edit Olavarriense Fermín Eloy Acosta. The right to access to the book and reading.
He sector editorial In Argentina a very adverse economic situation con A strong drop in production and sales. According to the Argentine Chamber of the Book, the production of books fell 24% and 40% the sale in bookstores. The average roll went from 2,900 copies to 1700. On the other hand, the price of the paper doubled to inflation and that impacted production costs. All of which shows A strong crisis in the book industryone of the most important sectors for culture.
Despite this context, there is a very particular project that bets on the book while defending and promoting the right to access and reading. These are Buenos Aires editions, a state public publishing house created on May 18, 2020 whose catalog is committed to dialogue the cultural heritage with new contemporary expressions.
Articulated with other public policies, this project is proposed collect that cultural multiplicity that is part of the province of Buenos Aires where different and heterogeneous identities, and expressions that define it. That is to say, Staging and discussion the problem of Buenos Aires identity through various genres, styles and authors.
“Among the purposes of the publisher is the idea of building a dialogue between the present and the past appealing to the identity of a territory, with the complexities that that entails. There is nothing predetermined in that idea, but there is A delicious cultural heritage, a quarry where different literary and artistic expressions overlap. With this public publishing house, the work of narrators, poets, historians, essayists, photographers and illustrators from Buenos Aires, ”says the Editorial Director of Bonaerenses editions, sociologist and essayist Guillermo Korn.
In this sense, the publisher has A plural, broad and democratic catalog that allows “readers to be able to approach many current writers, such as works created at another time, who continue to challenge for their originality, their stories or their aesthetic proposals,” says Korn. Thus, authors and artists are part of the catalog such as Marcelo Luis Vernet, Roberto Arlt, Sonia Budassi, Natalia Molina, Haroldo Conti, Lorena Curruhinca, Leopoldo Brizuela, Claudio Panella, Julieta Novelli, Juan José Becerra, Eva Murari, Manuel Puig, Antonio Berni, Tomás Calandoni, Luis Beneditamong many others and others.
In addition, it has Eight collections that cover different topics and problems such as Territories and identities, rescues, works and documents, new narratives, mirrors and windows, where there is a need and Buenos Aires classics. A broad catalog that brings together fiction, research, narrative, poetry, essays, among others and also It is printed in the Official Printing of the Buenos Aires State.
“Each book is thought of as a unique piece within that always incomplete puzzle that means composing a catalog. In its eight collections designed for readers of all ages, content are generated, criteria are elaborated, the books and their covers are designed. Sometimes with paintings that are part of the heritage of a provincial museum, or with illustrations, serigraphs and photographs of contemporary artists, or file, according to the case. Singularity as part of a wide set of materials composed of fictions, research and archive works, some bailouts, art, history, tracks of new voices and echoes of older voices, ”explains Guillermo Korn.
Among their Recent publications It is worth mentioning In the plaina book with texts by Marcelo Díaz, Fernanda Mugica and Arturo Carrera, prepared from the call of Ana Porrúa; Diego De Fioritoa book of stories and chronicles that take the figure of Diego Maradona in its beginnings when he lived in that town of the province or Buenos Aires menua book that addresses Buenos Aires identity through sixty -eight recipes cured by the renowned chef Juan Braceli.
In turn, In the coming months the novel by Olavarriense Fermín Eloy Acosta will come out –The poisonous visions-winner of the Hebe Uhart-Notela award and the Anthology of poets of the Buenos Aires NorthwestOn the Pampa line.
“The books will be available to more Buenos Aires”
Proven model, fundamental space
It is Editorial Model It already exists in other parts of the world whose most emblematic antecedent is the Mexican Economic Culture Fund, but you can also mention the experience of Quimantú, in Chile, Eudeba, as a university seal, to the Municipal Editorial of Rosario and the editorial of the National Library in Argentina.
In a very complex context like the one that all sectors of culture are going through, It is essential for the editorial industry to have a space as Buenos Aires editions. “That a public editorial exists means more opportunities for authors and readers. But there is also something that allows enhance reading opportunities. At the end of last year, three books from Leopoldo Brizuela came out, for example, two by independent publishers and another was the barbaric voices, by Buenos Aires editions. That does not mean that these publishers compete for a reader, but that The chances that an author has to be read again. In other cases we have done COEDITIONS WITH EDITORIALS OF THE PROVINCEwhich facilitated that some titles will become read in areas where these publishers do not always arrive, ”explains Korn.
“An independent or commercial editorial can have other goals, even the specificity of what it offers, but a public seal. A premise is then to consider the book as a public good and, in that sense, bet on reading. There is a clear objective: assume responsibility – given the public nature of this editorial – when thinking proposed and imagining a catalog for all public,” says the editorial director.
Bonaerenses editions can be obtained in Book Fairs y On its websitein digital format to be downloaded free of charge or through the virtual store.
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