Spanish writer Irene Vallejo talks about censorship and the importance of keeping books "intact" | Video

Toronto (Canada), April 12 (EFE).- The Spanish writer Irene Vallejo, who presented her book "El infinito en un junco" in Canada, said in an interview with EFE that books have always been persecuted and that she is in favor of public libraries not censoring and even offering books that are considered harmful.

STATEMENTS BY THE SPANISH WRITER IRENE VALLEJO: I believe that we have to keep intact even the books that we consider harmful or damaging because in some way they are telling us what our past is or what our history is, for example Hitler's Meinkampf as an exceptional case. But also through what has happened in books that tell us how racism was, how persecutions were, the Holocaust, genocides, that tell us about slavery and terrible aspects of our past, we learn how at the time these types of realities were justified, how they appeared, how they developed and give us tools in some way to confront them if these types of dangers manifest themselves again in our societies. I believe that the idea of sweetening the image of our past is dangerous because the past stops helping us and stops offering us clues about the human condition, which also has many dark corners and could also make us fall into nostalgia for pasts that we do not want to repeat.

Camera: Julio Rivas.

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Date: 12/04/2023 12:00 (UTC)
Credit: EFE
Source: EFE
Topic: Arts, culture and entertainment » Literature
Type: Rough cut
Duration: 72 seconds
Reference: 55010909997
Relevance: Normal