All the books are scattered on the floor because it’s Book’s day, and I can’t choose just one, not two, not all of them. They are marked and underlined, and when I pick them up again, I remember the reasons behind those colored bookmarks and footnotes. Sometimes, I recall a phrase, and I stand next to the library with the book in hand not leaving it until I find it
Alejandra Pizarnik said “We have spoken words, words to awaken the dead, words to make a fire, words where we can sit and smile”. Writing so that others read voraciously and find something that stays with them forever. Marguerite Duras says that “writing is not speaking, it’s keeping silent, howling without noise”. And Annie Ernaux: “But why write if not to unearth things, even just one, irreducible to explanations of any kind, psychological, sociological, something that is not the result of a preconceived idea or a demonstration, but of the narrative, something that emerges from the stepped folds of the narrative and can help to understand -to endure- what happens and what is done”.
I always have a book in my backpack, or on my phone, or on the computer, and when I have a moment, I get lost in it. Sometimes I get angry, and other times I get emotional, and occasionally -though rarely- I leave them halfway and take years to pick them up again. I read obsessively in seasons and then I can spend months with the same book, but there were moments when I couldn’t do anything else but read. In those moments, I think now as I look at the books on the floor, about how much literature saves us and how much better we become when we read.
Alejandra Pizarnik said “We have spoken words, words to awaken the dead, words to make a fire, words where we can sit and smile”. Writing so that others read voraciously and find something that stays with them forever. Marguerite Duras says that “writing is not speaking, it’s keeping silent, howling without noise”. And Annie Ernaux: “But why write if not to unearth things, even just one, irreducible to explanations of any kind, psychological, sociological, something that is not the result of a preconceived idea or a demonstration, but of the narrative, something that emerges from the stepped folds of the narrative and can help to understand -to endure- what happens and what is done”.
I always have a book in my backpack, or on my phone, or on the computer, and when I have a moment, I get lost in it. Sometimes I get angry, and other times I get emotional, and occasionally -though rarely- I leave them halfway and take years to pick them up again. I read obsessively in seasons and then I can spend months with the same book, but there were moments when I couldn’t do anything else but read. In those moments, I think now as I look at the books on the floor, about how much literature saves us and how much better we become when we read.
