Mirador Kosmopolis: Unknown classics and new writers

Kosmopolis 2014. Mirador Kosmopolis: New Writers

Dialogue with Jenn Díaz, Marina Espasa, David Gálvez and Yannick Garcia

Writing in the Present: New Writers. The young writer is inexperienced and has doubts. The new writer makes a statement and wants to be heard. Some of the authors that have recently joined our literary scene will discuss their proposals: their models, their stylistic position, ...

Kosmopolis 2014. Mirador Kosmopolis: Unknown classics

Dialogue with Laura Baena, Valeria Bergalli, Oscar Van Gelderen, Daniel Osca and Muge Sökmen

The Mutant Canon: Publishing Unknown Classics Backing the publication of unknown classics is one of the options that a publisher can choose nowadays to earn a prestigious position among readers. To what extent can the contemporary publication of classics modify the literary canon? Can a classics publisher create trends? What literatures – large or small – remain to be discovered in Europe? A dialogue between publishers, where we try to answer these and other questions related to the construction of catalogues that challenge the present with past titles. ...

The Art of Creating New Readers

Jordi Nopca

The literary canon is a compendium of works that overcome the oblivion of time and continue to be read. In the operation of keeping alive books that are not strictly current – by offering them to new readers, who make new interpretations of them – a fundamental role is played by ...