The first reading books and the great discovery of the adventure of reading. “First Lights” (Ampersand), a new book by the poet and university professor Carlos Battilana.
The act of reading as an enchantment, and its learning as the “equivalent of crossing a border into a new territory, he writes. The positivist idea that education would make us better has turned into a demodé superstition, he says. 'Reading is also accompanying the one who writes,' he writes, 'and I think about my first book to read, called 'Semillitas.' It was called 'Semillitas', and like the book, it contained a very powerful idea in the title: learning to read was the beginning of something greater and transcendent. A beacon that would sweep away the darkness, in the case of battilana; a seed that would germinate and grow in me.'