PAULA SANDS This Friday begins 70 edition of the annual celebration bookseller of Madrid. It is the great publishing hope to square the bad numbers of the year. This year the invited country is Germany. It will be the star of the weekend: Literature, mainly the popular one, although also once again and fortunately will be hollow for the less commercial titles and the classic ones that never stop dressing any bookcase, and much more if the houses of the Retirement it is. 447 exhibitors to put to burst the Stroll of Cars of our more famous park. The great question is not based in if the people go, will do who it and in mass, like every year, but in if the temperature of this malherido sector raises to the Fair.
Because the year has not been nothing good for the book. Germany, the guest the writer and German philosopher Rdiger Safranski will be the one who east 19.00 inaugurates Friday to the cultural activities of this edition in the pavilion of the Circle of Readers. Germany in the Fair of Libro! it is the motto of the program of encounter organized by the Goethe-Institut Madrid, the Embassy of Germany and the Fair of Libro. Between the authors Germans who will go they will be Clemens Meyer, Volker Braun, Kathrin Schmidt, David Safier, Christian Schnemann, Volker Kutscher and Hans Magnus Enzensberger. And whoever to be useful to take control of some essential ones German Literature, although many they have been already it doing since in 2009 the Herta-Muller German-Rumanian gained Nobel, is the moment for taking some title of the exceptional one awarded as well as of the stimulating German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, whose last work published in Spain is Fervor of God (Siruela). Small great titles Between all the supersales, so present always in the Fair of Libro, will strain some less well-known titles, but without a doubt interesting for some kind readers.