La Biblioteca de Deusto muestra 51 ediciones de ‘El Quijote’. Deia, Noticias de Bizkaia

BILBAO - Post tenebras spero lucem (espero la luz tras las tinieblas), era el lema de Don Quijote de la Mancha y es la frase que le espetó a su escudero Sancho Panza en el capítulo LXVIII, titulado De la cerdosa aventura que le aconteció a don Quijote. La frase también consta en la primera impresión de El Quijote, la que promovió Juan de la Cuesta. Y esa misma divisa inspira la nueva muestra que ha organizado la Universidad de Deusto, con motivo del IV Centenario de la muerte de Cervantes. 

Centrada en la obra más universal del autor, El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, la exposición exhibe 51 obras, fragmentadas en 118 volúmenes de distintas ediciones publicadas entre los siglos XVII al XX, incluidas traducciones al alemán, al esperanto, al euskera, al francés, al inglés y al latín, piezas todas que pertenecen al fondo bibliográfico de la Biblioteca Universitaria. Además, los arropa un incunable: una Biblia anterior a 1500. La muestra permanecerá abierta hasta el 5 de mayo, en la Sala Ellacuría del edificio. 

Post tenebras spero lucem. El Quijote en la Biblioteca Universitaria de Deusto es una exposición bibliográfica organizada de forma cronológica. Arranca el año 1605, con los ejemplares de las primeras ediciones, libros pequeños editados "para ser leídos, no para ser contemplados", tal y como explica la directora de la Biblioteca de Deusto, Nieves Taranco. "Aunque a principios del siglo XVII la mayoría de la población española era analfabeta, estos libros eran muy solicitados y había ya mucha demanda, sobre todo entre las clases privilegiadas y entre los religiosos", detalla Taranco. Las primeras ediciones se publicaron en Madrid (dos), en Valencia (una) y en Lisboa (otras dos), y la directora del archivo asegura que no eran de muy buena calidad: "La novela tiene muchísimo éxito desde el principio y había que sacar ejemplares pronto. De ahí las erratas y la mala calidad de la tipografía en los primeros ejemplares, que, además, están dedicados a ciertos mecenas, que son los que financiaban la edición, pues su impresión resultaba muy cara". 

DONACIÓN Los ejemplares pertenecen al archivo de la Biblioteca de Deusto, y 38 de las 51 obras las donó en 2010 el bibliófilo bilbaino Guillermo Barandiaran, "que las guardaba con mucho mimo". Barandiaran heredó la afición de su suegro, Fernando Gondra, conocido coleccionista de libros. 

La obra más antigua que se expone en la Sala Ellacuría data de 1605, y es coetánea de la primera impresión, la de Juan de la Cuesta. Estos primeros volúmenes ya contaban con "dos o tres ilustraciones".

Taranco subraya la importancia de una pieza del siglo XVIII, "la de la imprenta de Joaquín Ibarra, "un trabajo hecho con una calidad tipográfica magnífica y con unos grabados estupendos". Para ella, "sin duda una de las más bellas ediciones de El Quijote". También lucen en las vitrinas varios volúmenes ilustrados que datan del siglo XIX y del XX, con grabados de color hechos por Dalí, Balaca, Miciano o Ramón Aguilar Moré. 

Para los más perezosos, la Universidad de Deusto ha habilitado una exposición virtual, que se podrá visitar a través de la web de la Biblioteca. "En la misma se reproducen todos los volúmenes y añadimos grabados y láminas representativas", detalla Taranco.

IÑAKI MENDIZABAL ELORDI - Miércoles, 27 de Abril de 2016 - Actualizado a las 06:04h.

http://m.deia.com/2016/04/27/ocio-y-cultura/cultura/la-biblioteca-de-deusto-muestra-51-ediciones-de-el-quijote

A Fairytale Library

Reddit user Radamshome, a father of two, took on the massive task of transforming his daughter's ordinary bedroom into a fairytale land, complete with a life-sized treehouse she could sit inside to read her books.

http://freshome.com/daughters-bedroom-transforms-into-fairytale-land/

Hemingway’s Advice on Writing and Reading and fishing in Cuba

Our choice extract this week:

BY MARIA POPOVA

"As a writer you should not judge. You should understand,"Ernest Hemingway(July 21, 1899–July 2, 1961) counseled in his 1935 Esquirecompendium of writing advice, addressed to an archetypal young correspondent but based on a real-life encounter that had taken place a year earlier.

In 1934, a 22-year-old aspiring writer named Arnold Samuelson set out to meet his literary hero, hoping to steal a few moments with Hemingway to talk about writing. The son of Norwegian immigrant wheat farmers, he had just completed his coursework in journalism at the University of Minnesota, but had refused to pay the $5 diploma fee. Convinced that his literary education would be best served by apprenticing himself to Hemingway, however briefly, he hitchhiked atop a coal car from Minnesota to Key West. "It seemed a damn fool thing to do," Samuelson later recalled, "but a twenty-two-year-old tramp during the Great Depression didn't have to have much reason for what he did."Unreasonable though the quest may have been, he ended up staying with Hemingway for almost an entire year, over the course of which he became the literary titan's only true protégé. 

Samuelson recorded the experience and its multitude of learnings in a manuscript that was only discovered by his daughter after his death in 1981. It was eventually published as With Hemingway: A Year in Key West and Cuba (public library) — the closest thing to a psychological profile of the great writer.

Hemingway (left) and Samuelson fishing and talking in Key West.

Shortly after the young man's arrival in Key West, Hemingway got right down to granting him what he had traveled there seeking. In one of their first exchanges, he hands Samuelson a handwritten list and instructs him:

Here's a list of books any writer should have read as a part of his education… If you haven't read these, you just aren't educated. They represent different types of writing. Some may bore you, others might inspire you and others are so beautifully written they'll make you feel it's hopeless for you to try to write.

This is the list of heartening and hopeless-making masterworks that Hemingway handed to young Samuelson:

1. The Blue Hotel (public library) by Stephen Crane
2. The Open Boat (public library) by Stephen Crane
3. Madame Bovary (free ebook | public library) by Gustave Flaubert
4. Dubliners (public library) by James Joyce
5. The Red and the Black (public library) by Stendhal
6. Of Human Bondage (free ebook | public library) by W. Somerset Maugham
7. Anna Karenina (free ebook | public library) by Leo Tolstoy
8. War and Peace (free ebook | public library) by Leo Tolstoy
9. Buddenbrooks (public library) by Thomas Mann
10. Hail and Farewell (public library) by George Moore
11. The Brothers Karamazov (public library) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
12. The Oxford Book of English Verse(public library)
13. The Enormous Room (public library) by E.E. Cummings
14. Wuthering Heights (free ebook | public library) by Emily Brontë
15. Far Away and Long Ago (free ebook | public library) by W.H. Hudson
16. The American (free ebook | public library) by Henry James

Not on the handwritten list but offered in the conversation surrounding the exchange is what Hemingway considered "the best book an American ever wrote," the one that "marks the beginning of American literature" — Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (public library).

Art by Norman Rockwell for a rare edition of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/01/04/with-hemingway-arnold-samuelson-writing/

How do you get prisoners to read? Build a library...in the jail

By Perry Stein.

Larry Blair is finally reading books

The 61-year-old dropped out of middle school after an armed robbery arrest and never considered himself much of a traditional academic.

He has called a jail cell home for a combined 40 years, drifting in and out for a jumble of theft, drug and assault convictions. Each time he's released, he reverts to stealing and lands back behind bars.

Blair will complete his sentence this month, and he says it'll be different this time. He promises to keep reading.

The D.C. Public Library system opened its first location in the city's only jail in March 2015, introducing inmates to books and library programming that also will be available to them after release. In its first year, 1,100 inmates checked out 4,600 books.

Larry Blair, a D.C. jail inmate, reads books such as "Dreams From My Father," by Barack Obama. (Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post)

"When I got on the streets, I never had time to read," said Blair, dressed in an orange jumpsuit in the basement library. "Now, I promised, I will always have a book."

In 2013, advocates began asking for a library in D.C.'s jail, citing anecdotes and programs showing how reading can rehabilitate and empower the incarcerated. The library is one of a handful of programs, including GED classes and occupational training, intended to make inmates more literate and employable. An employed former convict is less likely to return to a cell block, according to data from the Urban Institute.

Some D.C. inmates have been exposed to books and libraries in federal prisons. The District's program, in part, also seeks to help transition inmates from using the jail's library to the libraries in their neighborhoods upon release.

When Blair gets out, he'll leave with a library card.

"It's amazing how small things make a huge difference," said Regina Gilmore, the reentry coordinator for the D.C. Department of Corrections. "Of course, the library reduces idleness, but it also starts dialogue. They talk about the books with each other, they relate to it. It helps with their communication skills."

Readnow# bookswithpages# librariesforever# wildrare#

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/how-do-you-get-prisoners-to-read-build-a-library-like-the-one-in-this-jail/2016/04/02/d0d0747a-f68c-11e5-9804-537defcc3cf6_story.html?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_lclheads