The Fondo de Cultura Económica presented the collection 21 for 21, with two million copies of some of the most representative titles in Mexican history and literature.
Juan Carlos Valdes
Faced with the electronic bombardment that we live, it is very important promoting reading especially among the youngest the president pointed out Andrés Manuel López Obrador, presenting this morning the collection “21 for the 21”From the Economic Culture Fund (FCE).
«Reading is very important especially in the new generations, the young people, that the habit of reading is strengthened even with all the bombardment of electronic media, The simplistic that re turns out to see only the basics, the reviews, the surface and not go to the bottom ».
With the Collection «21 para el 21», the FCE joins the celebrations for the 700 years of the Foundation of Mexico City, 500 years of the Fall of Tenochtitlan and the 200 of Independence and will give away more than 2 million books.
Paco Ignacio Taibo II, director of the Economic Culture Fund, said that the collection is part of the federal program “Towards a Republic of Readers”, with a selection of titles after Independence and until the middle of the 20th century.
«This collection consists of 21 titles of 100 thousand copies each, it was financed by the Institute to Give Back to the People the Stolen, it cost around 45 million pesos that covers printing costs, copyrights that were paid to the heirs, to the authors and a micro distribution cost, practically non-existent ”.
It is a sample of the great feminine and masculine Mexican letters and more than two million free books. »21 para el 21 ″ brings together books by Inés Arredondo, Amparo Dávila and Emilio Carballido, among others and that will reach the whole country, especially vulnerable communities and to retired teachers, rural universities, reading rooms and also to the security forces such as the National Guard and the Army.
“It is from here is the largest operation that has been in the history of Latin America to give books away, you cannot fly the books, you cannot stand on a corner and give them away. You have to find in the right book for the right reader […]. You have to create a fragmented distribution and under the logic of who you go to, how you search and how you get there ».
Some of the titles:
“Canek”, by Ermilo Abreu Gómez, which tells the story of the ancient Mayan hero who, in 1761, led an uprising against the Spanish in the Yucatecan town of Cisteil.
“Underground River”, with twelve stories by Inés Arredondo that explore the hidden areas of the human mind and behavior.
Time of thieves. The story of Chucho El Roto ”, in which Emilio Carballido recounts the escapes from prison, the entanglements of love affairs and other adventures of this legendary character.
“Death in the forest”, by Amparo Dávila. An anthology of stories that brings together deafening chapters in the lives of the characters that inhabit its pages.
“Balún Canan” by Rosario Castellanos
“The red book” by Rivapalacio
“Los de Abajo” by Mariano Azuela
“The empty book” by Josefina Vicens
“The Labyrinth of Solitude” by Octavio Paz
“Apocalipstik” by Carlos Monsiváis
“Puebo en vilo” by Luis González
“Paseo de la Reforma” by Elena Poniatowska
“The shadow of the caudillo” by Martín Luis Guzmán
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