2023-08-27 12:16:30
Signals against the end of the book come from the little ones. “In boys and girls the desire to read is alive. The world has changed. I am pragmatic, but optimistic”, says Elena Pasoli, 65, director of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, in an interview with ‘Il Sole 24 Ore’. the world’s most important trade fair in the sector.
“The overcrowding of the image and the prevalence of the web are the crumbly backbone of reality. The classic book, as the first code of interpretation and as a widespread tool in every social class, is in crisis. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have passed. But it is equally true – he underlines – that a fertile common ground has taken shape between the traditional book on paper, the digital book, the audio book, the podcasts and a mixed form of written word and image such as graphics. be pulverized, compressed and annihilated by the transience and pervasiveness of social media and the net. Among all these worlds, there are meeting points for which those born in the 2000s have a natural aptitude”.
“Boys and girls, boys and girls increasingly have smartphones and their infinite contents as an extension of their bodies and minds. But, in this general mutation induced by mass technology” according to Pasoli “they still exist the emotional space for the passion for reading and the mental space for the idea of the book, which is one of the founding elements of the world generated by the Mediterranean, from Judaism to Christianity up to Islam, which are religions and civilizations of the book” .
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