■ Backed by three Nobel laureates, the author received the award from IDF
■ Jeers to Sari Bermudez and shouts of support for AMLO in the act
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Guadalajara, Jal., September 25. Accompanied by three Nobel laureates and the presence of his close friend Jose Emilio Pacheco, the writer Carlos Monsivais today received the Award of the International Book Fair at the opening ceremony of the celebration in which bookish defended the need for the country reinforce secular education, as "the biggest enemy of culture is not the worship of images and disdain for everything you send to a dictionary-obtuse that object is always too far, but the educational catastrophe in public education, who said, in private. "
Guadalajara, Jal., September 25. Accompanied by three Nobel laureates and the presence of his close friend Jose Emilio Pacheco, the writer Carlos Monsivais today received the Award of the International Book Fair at the opening ceremony of the celebration in which bookish defended the need for the country reinforce secular education, as "the biggest enemy of culture is not the worship of images and disdain for everything you send to a dictionary-obtuse that object is always too far, but the educational catastrophe in public education, who said, in private. "
Smiling, happy, giving his hand to his left to pick it up several times Gabriel García Márquez, the critic and columnist also made no mention of the withdrawal of the name of Juan Rulfo Award received, endowed with a hundred thousand dollars, and that was delivered by the head of the National Council for Culture and the Arts (CNCA), Sari Bermúdez, who was booed all the times that was mentioned.
The event came three Nobel Prize winners for Literature: Nadine Gordimer of South Africa (1991), Colombian Gabriel García Márquez (1982) and Portugal's Jose Saramago (1998), as well as Carlos Fuentes, Cervantes Prize (1987) and Prince de Asturias (1994).
In a speech that consumed nearly an hour before a packed hall which was refused entry to hundreds of people for lack of space, Monsivais emphasized that the two constants that have impeded the development of education and culture in Mexico and Latin America have been the endless repetition of the economic crisis, but also contempt for the humanities.
"63 percent of primary school leavers do not know how to write, less competition," lamented ironic, and "nearly two out of three elementary school graduates lack basic skills in the use of language writing. "
said that the claim to eliminate the complexity in writing is one of the greatest dangers, a kind of 'childishness of society", with television as one of the pointers in that intended.
In As for Latin America said that the year 2010, the year of independence celebrations, is a wonderful opportunity to deepen their identity threatened by globalization.
"For the first time in history Latin America can inquire into the truth or myth your unit or dispersion, can know how much your story is assembled from fragments, which are now trans-Atlantic ties, which are different stages of their local and regional "he said.
Monsi 's laugh
The poet José Emilio Pacheco was in charge of making a portrait, full of memories based on the longstanding friendship and creative staff , he said, has become part of a small middle generation-in which included Sergio Pitol, among the writers who came from the post-revolutionary era and the so-called literature of the wave in the 60's.
"I showed him my texts busily working youth, Monsi had a word I do not know if you continue to use, but I said: it's a mess and laughed. I'd say, Carlos, it was very hard, and I answered, that's your problem "began José Emilio.
Then, in a personal construction, anticipated that the IDF, 2038 will celebrate the centenary of the birth of Carlos Monsivais who, from 2006, began his apotheosis that would take him to get one after another National Book Award, the Award Ramón López Velarde and, according to a prediction of Walter Mercado, 2010 Cervantes Prize, the Prince of Asturias 2015 and the 2018 Nobel Prize for exceptional thing to have three Mexican Nobel followed were Carlos Fuentes, Fernando del Paso and then Carlos Monsivais. "
of laws and boos
During the inauguration of the IDF, Trinidad Padilla López, Rector of the University of Guadalajara, the main sponsor of the celebration, welcomed the presence of literary figures present in the act. In his speech he also expressed concern about the veto imposed by law in the book.
"(The law) inter alia provides for a single price retail for all booksellers are equitable conditions of competition and play from fair principles," he said and asked that the company intends to "defend the practice long and joyful reading. We hope that the next federal government for solutions to the demands on this issue. "
Manuel Chavez, president of the Junta de Andalucía, thanked for their side," the honor of this English region is the guest of honor at the 2006 FIL . Its government, its creators, writers, editors, your bookshelves, are taken very seriously this special invitation, and we have deployed a wide range of activities during all these days, we expect that the presence of Andalusia is the height of this great responsibility. "
In the opening ceremony the head of the CNCA, Sari Bermudez, was booed on three occasions, especially by a group of apparent supporters of former presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, whose name was also chanted by many of the more than two thousand people who packed the large hall.
After
Boo retired federal civil servant with tears just cut the ribbon, accompanied by the President of IDF, Raúl Padilla López, who went to the esplanade of Expo Guadalajara where she went to his hotel.
Boo retired federal civil servant with tears just cut the ribbon, accompanied by the President of IDF, Raúl Padilla López, who went to the esplanade of Expo Guadalajara where she went to his hotel.
