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| Home page > Cultura > Magazine > Librerías patrimoniales / Patrimony bookshops |
Librerías porteñas: El refugio de los bohemios "¿Dónde
encuentra Umberto Eco, o mejor dicho el narrador de El Nombre de la Rosa,
el manuscrito que da origen a la novela? En una librería de Buenos Aires.
¿Dónde fue descubierta la Biblia de Gutenberg que es una de las jojas del
Museo Británico? En una librería de Buenos Aires. ¿Dónde está el único cine-teatro
del mundo que se transformó en librería? En Buenos Aires." Álvaro Abós (periodista y escritor
argentino) Por su historia, o por su valor simbólico, numerosas librerías porteñas preservan el patrimonio cultural de la ciudad y, visitarlas, es conocer los lugares donde gran parte de la intelectualidad de Buenos Aires ha transitado. Porteños' bookshops: Refuges for Bohemians
"Where
does Umberto Eco, or The Rose's Name' narrator, found the manuscript which
gives birth to the novel? At a bookshop in Buenos Aires. Where was Gutenberg's
Bible -one Brittish Museum's jewels- discover? At a bookshop in Buenos Aires.
Where is the only movie-theater in the world that became a bookshop? In
Buenos Aires." Álvaro Abós
(Argentine journalist and writer)
Due to their history, or their symbolic values, several bookshops in B.A. preserve the cultural patrimony of the city. A visit to them is a way to know the spots where a generation of porteños intellectual has found a place. These are the most representative bookshops in the city, whose buildings -in many cases- also manifest the Porteños' history, such as Avila's. And there are some others which possess a symbolic value, such as El Ateneo.
In Buenos Aires, bookshops and cafés have been cultural icons for years.
Intellectuals and writers used to meet there. The stores located at Corrientes
Avenue used to stay open all night long, and people from all over the world
visited them in search of old books, among which a "jewel" could possibly
be found.![]() Avila's, for example, located in the corner of Alsina and Bolivar, is the oldest in the city. It opened in 1785 and formerly was named La Botica; later on, La Librería del Colegio, and de Avila, at present. Clasica y Moderna, in Callao 713, opened in 1916 as Académica, and in 1938 adopted its present name. It is also a cultural icon for Buenos Aires. La Ciudad, located in the Galería del Este on Florida street, was the meeting point for vanguards in the 60s'. Jorge Luis Borges used to sit there, surrounded by books and chatting with visitors. |
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