A historic edition of the Book Fair | CULTURE. More than 360,000 visitors

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Filros 2022 had 84 exhibitors (51 from Rosario and 33 from the rest of the country), different areas with programming, both within the Fontanarrosa, including the Beatriz Vallejos, Jorge Riestra, Beatriz Guido, and Spazio Hugo rooms, as well as exterior with the Angélica Gorodischer Auditorium and a stage specially set up on the esplanade where 50 performances and artistic interventions took place.

There was also a space dedicated above all to children, with its own agenda, and another in which the meeting of narrators and narrators took place, constituted in the third module of Training in Mediation of Readings by ‘Rosario Lee. Citizen’s reading plan ‘.

The fair has aroused interest and great turnout from the beginning, with the opening ceremony led by Mayor Pablo Javkin and which had Claudia Piñeiro as a special guest, with an opening speech. From that moment on, the various activities had a large influx of public, which on many occasions overflowed the halls. Among the most followed, the table with Camila Sosa Villada, broadcast live on the esplanade; the speeches of the Cecilia Ce license; the presentations of “We Are What We Say” by Charly López, “If there is a floor there is no roof” by Lucas Raspall and “Argentine Agrarian Federation” by Pedro Peretti; the participation of Pedro Saborido and Rep who present several books; tributes to Gerardo Rozín and Roberto Fontanarrosa; the opening of the Storyteller’s Meeting; the intervention of Chiqui González ‘The path of reading in childhood’ and the performance of ‘El mar de noche’ by Luis Machín, directed by Guillermo Cacace and dramatized by Santiago Loza.

The agenda of this last day was full of activities, but the presence of María Teresa Andruetto, writer and poet from Cordoba, deservedly closed an unforgettable edition of the Rosary Book Fair. Like the rain, so necessary, the words of “la Tere” quench the thirst, green and moisten those paths of readers and readers. At her side, Amanda Paccotti, an illustrious city teacher who, with her 80th birthday about to take place, wisely guides the discussion.

Andruetto notes the audience’s name, Angélica Gorodischer, and highlights Rosario as a beacon of female writing in Argentina, while Pacotti wonders “what is a path” and reviews the different options that can be glimpsed in the present, ” some sadder and others bright “, giving the foot to the famous writer from Cordoba to begin her speech.

“The readings were in my life before my birth”, says Andruetto and tells, in particular, the story of the maternal lineage, women who, with the few resources they had, first in their native Italy and then in Argentina, did a lot . He says none of them were literate, so they first learned Piedmontese and then self-taught precarious Spanish. His father also followed a similar path, with some other original training that he then had to adapt after the migration. The whole family committed to sharing those teachings, writing or reading letters to people who weren’t literate. His mother was able to attend the village school and carried on that legacy, which highlights the value of reading and stories before the books themselves.

Andruetto shares that as a girl she saw in books the works of art of exceptional artists of all times; then her life allowed her to travel and she was fascinated by Rembrandt, hence her poem “Self-portrait in front of an easel”, in which she observes the changes and transformations experienced by the painter in each of his paintings in which he draws himself. “When Rembrandt loses everything, he becomes a good man. If one ages well, detaching oneself from the things of the world, he gains in kindness and compassion towards others, ”she says.

In another case, Pacotti cannot escape his love for teaching and wonders what the current path is in that training. Andruetto denies the warrants and talks about his experience. “I think the school, as Graciela Monte said, should be a place of draw. In my house there were few books and we were very poor. My parents have had reading experience. They didn’t have a good job. When I saw that what was in my house was not in other places, I felt that it was a treasure and that it must belong to everyone. Which has marked the way of relating in life “, he expresses and continues by saying that literature is a right for everyone and the construction of readers is a state, public and social issue:” Building readers is building citizenship, the place is the school. I would tell teachers to bring books they are convinced of, which can explode their meaning. No reader does it alone in a day, it is reached with perseverance and in the passage from one book to another.

In relation to this, the author winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Prize – the Nobel Prize for literature for children and children – speaks of fiction as a space of freedom, a place where one can find one’s own voice, indicating that this condition is threatened for many reasons, including good thinking that many times tries to fit on the agenda. “We fight because the lyrics don’t have a sobering function. Fiction is full of values ​​but not explicitly. The instructive undermines the space of freedom that is literature. A writer can deal with all issues, a poet can talk about anything as long as that cause, as Leloir said, coincides with his heart, without telling the other how he should behave or feel. Literature is putting yourself in someone else’s shoes because the one who counts is a narrator. This is the most important thing in fiction, that otherness is inclusive, it forces the reader to look at the world from another angle and teaches what we don’t know we are learning “, Andruetto closed to give the final touch to this 24th. edition of the International Rosary Book Fair which greeted until next year.

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