BOOKS-MEMORY – TELAM Agency
The “More Books for More Memory” exhibition, organized by the Subsecretariat for Culture and Promotion of the Arts of the Municipality of Avellaneda together with the party’s popular libraries, brings together a series of interventions and redefinitions based on the use of books expunged in the Dictatorship and, in addition, photographic documents of the historic burning in 1980 of 24 tons of books from the CEAL (Latin American Publishing Center).
At the Centro Cultural Mercado, at Colón 451, and as part of the installation, it will be possible to visit “Momoria en llamas”, the photographic exhibition of the historian and CEAL employee Ricardo Figueira who recovers the transfer from the publisher’s warehouse until the moment of burning it in a wasteland.
It is also a tribute to the prohibited authors and all the workers in the publishing universe who were persecuted, detained, tortured and disappeared during the last civic-military dictatorship and is especially dedicated to Daniel Luaces, a CEAL employee, kidnapped and shot by Triple A in 1974. .
In the middle of the civic-military dictatorship, from the CEAL warehouse located in O`Higgins and Agüero, Sarandí, army trucks moved 24 tons of books and pamphlets to a nearby waste ground on Ferré street between Agüero and Lucena, to be burned. It is one of the ten most transcendental burnings in the history of the destruction of books.
In addition to crimes and political and economic offenses, the last dictatorship also operated against the cultural wealth of the country. “Advancing in those subjective processes, anchored in collective symbolic marks, on which memory is sustained, with the death, repression and persecution of artists. The strategic control over artistic and cultural productions implied the forced exile of artists, censorship in musical compositions, and in all disciplines of art”, maintain the curators of the exhibition
As part of these silencing operations, the burning of the books of the Latin American Publishing Center was ordered, among other large burnings that took place in the country, it was an accurate blow to a publisher of great theoretical, political and cultural quality, and a fact that marked the national culture.
Source: Ambito
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