" Crossing books in the silence was to me an amazing experience. I felt each author, each text, a completely organic way. The books had a direct effect on my whole being and from time to time, I had to change places. A volume called to come on the table so that the reader finds the day. Another wanted to return to the shelves, melt into the anonymous mass. Some authors shouted, no longer stand in alphabetical order, they clearly wanted to escape a certain inevitability of the neighborhood and said loud and clear. It was enough to be listening to books to understand that nothing could impose. A book is a living organism with its needs, dreams, his claims. And too often, bookstores and libraries looked like death houses crammed beings debilitated. Incidentally, I took a small volume of Reinaldo Arenas: Arturo, the brightest star . He demanded to be read this morning in the quiet, the smell of coffee, the laughter of children. "
Antoni Casas Ros, Enigma (Gallimard, 2009)
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