“I do not believe in literature, much less that it is read,” he expressed. Hernan Casciari In an interview conducted on the program “Three Stars” Pedro Rosemblat for the streaming channel Gelatina, and added: “Literature was something for a man who came at 7 in the afternoon and had enough time to sit on a sofa with a 550-page book, the first 25 of which were the description of the character. . He was great when there was nothing else.”
The writer and founder of the Orsai magazine I make strong statements about literature, but above all questioning the physical format of the book as a reading resource. “My daughter is six years old and obviously she is not going to read. I need her to consume stories and know how to tell them. Let her know that there is a first plot, a second plot and if there is a third that identifies her, ”said the author of “Have more respect from your mother”.
“To tell a 7 or 8 year old boy today that he has to spend three or four hours looking down, with all his senses concentrated on one thing, which is a piece of paper with ink, on which a guy wants to explain to you what it’s like.” the face of a character, you say ‘why are you going to do that to the boy, if it is your nostalgia that is at stake,’” Casciari explained and added: “Proposing the book to the boy as an ideal format is a mistake.”
Beyond his questioning about the physical format, the “Perros de la Calle” radio columnist maintained that reading is important and concluded: “I am against people reading. We can’t, that’s why other things exist. To continue consuming the amount of stories we need.”
