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Includes proposals to approach young readers
The Department of Culture keeps the work of universal authors in force with commemorative editions
January 17, 2018In order to keep the legacy of outstanding universal writers, through editions that rescue or reinterpret their main works, and in order to attract new generations, the Department of Culture of the Government of the Republic, through the General Direction of Publications (DGP) will publish a series of commemorative books that include new proposals for young readers such as the launch of the Caja de Herramientas collection, in which renowned authors, illustrators and cartoonists will participate.
José Luis Martínez, Juan José Arreola, Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Guillermo Prieto, Ricardo Flores Magón, Mary Shelley and Malcolm Lowry make up the list of personalities who will be remembered through these editions to be held by the Department of Culture, in accordance with the Program for the Promotion of Books and Reading with special editions to reach a greater number of readers throughout the country through the Salas de Lectura National Program of the DGP.
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mexican essayist, historian, humanist, editor, academic and diplomat José Luis Martínez (Atoyac, Jalisco, January 19, 1918 - Mexico City, March 20, 2007), his work La expresión nacional (The National Expression) will be republished, in which he studied the 19th century Mexican literature as part of the process of elaborating a Mexican culture, which matures and becomes intellectually independent, in the search of a national and original expression.
In this one, one of José Luis Martínez's fundamental works, first published in 1955 and which will now feature a new prologue by Christopher Domínguez Michael, the author explains that, if writers understood literature as a social function in the service of the homeland, in the early years of their independent life, the only struggle that suited them was to conquer their own autonomous expression. It also presents studies dedicated to particular personalities and provides a brief review of literary journalism and literary historiography.
Juan José Arreola, on the centenary of his birthday (Zapotlán el Grande, today Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco, September 21, 1918 - Guadalajara, Jalisco, December 3, 2001) and, Jorge Ibargüengoitia, 90 years after his birth (Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico, January 22, 1928 - Mejorada del Campo, Madrid, November 27, 1983), they will be the first authors to launch the DGP's Caja de Herramientas collection, a proposal aimed at young readers that seeks to bring them closer to important Mexican writers, through fresh proposals that will combine text and image.
The characteristics of their works, their personality, anecdotes, experiences and preferences that attract new generations will be an essential part of the proposals that the authors of each work will make from the premise Instructions to read... Writer and musician Fernando Rivera Calderón and caricaturist Gis will be in charge of the book dedicated to Juan José Arreola, and Jorge F. Hernández will be in charge of the texts and graphics of the work about Jorge Ibargüengoitia, which will feature a prologue by Juan Villoro.
Also dedicated to young readers, the collection Este cuento no ha acabado (This is not the end of the story) will be enriched with two new publications. Two hundred years after the appearance of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, illustrator Bernardo Fernández Bef will coordinate a collective work with storytelling and graphics around the novel, in which only writers and illustrators will participate, as a tribute to the British author.
Meanwhile, the writer Martín Solares will coordinate the collective volume of essays, stories and graphics based on the novel by Malcolm Lowry, Bajo el volcán, considered one of the greatest works of English literature, which story takes place in Cuernavaca, Morelos, on the Day of the Dead in 1938. The eight decades of the year in which happens Bajo el volcán (Beneath the Volcano) will be the reason of this publication.
To commemorate the 145th anniversary of the birth of journalist, writer and politician Ricardo Flores Magón (Eloxochitlán, Oaxaca, September 16, 1873 - Kansas, USA, November 21,1922), the DGP will print the last volume of his Complete Works, which first volume he edited in 2001 with the volume I Correspondence (1899-1918) and which closes with the XVIII entitled Miscelánea.
In addition, 200 years after the birth of the poet and politician Guillermo Prieto (Mexico City, February 10, 1818 - March 2, 1897), the publication of his Complete Works in electronic version will be started.
Mexico,Distrito Federal
