I come to tell you stories of the lake
ness book and reading thieves
furtive outside the law
my first character is called bastian
baltasar box know him
is 10 11 years old is a bit chubby
clumsy loose character a boy
we would say differently and his classmates
they make fun of him they have been running and
he had to leave for fear that
hit him
It’s a cold morning and Luis and it rains
bastian pitchers that has been
running in the rain is all
soaked and now stands in front of a
business willing to get water into the
door or bunch of brass bells
rattling high Bastian is scared
in front of him he has a long room and
narrow that is lost in the gloom
look at the sides there are a lot of
bookcase full of books that arrive
even the ceiling on the floor also
stacks of old books pile up
of all shapes and sizes bastian directs
his gaze to the bottom where he trembles
a light and the hoop of the smoke of a cigar
air rising from that corner
a rough voice emerges that tells him to close
the door
Bastian does not really know what to do
the voice belongs to an old man with
face of bulldog that is reading the
bulldog adds
I do not have books for kids and the others
I do not sell it but pacquiao is still
nailed to the ground
you’re still standing there to do
to get rid of you but before you leave
tell me why focused so hurried
who chases someone
chases the Bastian police they say no
with my head they chase me
comrades laugh at me tell me
things for example that I’m nuts
because sometimes I speak alone and you say
invent stories I imagine names and
people that there are things and in that
suddenly the doorbell rings
phone
the bulldog leaves the book that is
reading on the chair was another
room attend now bastian is
alone with the books is safe
between the books curious idea save
in a place full of books like that
infinity but the one who is reading the
bulldog looks different is magnetic
calls Bastien and Bastienne and Bastián
goes to that place where I was reading
the world takes the book in their hands and
he looks at him everywhere
is a book with copper-colored covers that
they shine when they move
When opening it, Bastian discovers that
printed to the colors and that has some
beautiful capital letters on the
top and drawn two snakes one
clear and other healing that bites
mutually the tail forming an oval and
in the middle of that oval the title the
endless story
a story that never ends this
It’s my book and Sebastian Bastian
baltazar books feels passion for
passion books that has not been evenings
whole in front of a book with ears
Burning reads with hair on the face
forgotten about the world without knowing if it has
be or hungry
I can not possibly understand what in
this moment is thinking bastian that
he has not had to read secretly from
night under the blanket while listening
to your parents that ten tell you
pay the light because tomorrow that
get up early possibly also
understand what he is feeling
bastian
who has not felt sorry because a
book comes to an end and has no
then and with them goes to the
people who have been our friends
for a time probably neither
understand what is bastian
to do
Bastian takes the book and feels warm and
cold at the same time
this is an endless story the
book of all books has to
West get what whatever
cost what is said cost not because
the bulldog has told him that he is not going to
sell and of course it’s not going to
give bastian looks towards the
world room – which goes on and on
talking on the phone and think
this is the moment then take the
book puts it under his coat what
gaza slips furtively makes the
Door to latch comes out slowly
out and comes running up to this
our first award
a thief of books the thief of a
copper-colored tapas book that contains
a story that never ends
but where does he go to his house of course
that not because his father would ask
why he is not at school without
want has followed the path to
school and we see it now think enter
at school he tried I can not read it
there are attic in that van
where nobody ever comes near
there he goes he opens the door in
the grave is untied with the coat
wet it places it on a skeleton that
is abandoned in a corner and so
between knick-knacks and cobwebs near
a skylight is accommodated at the time in
the classmates who are doing
in the language and literature class
bored reading things that do not
they interest
instead he has a book of tapas
copper color with an endless story that
a book will happen when it is closed
think inside and thousands of adventures and a
lots of characters that I do not know
but to be able to live those adventures
you have to read it then Bastian opens
ceremoniously on the first page and
start reading but let’s leave for a
a little bit to our Bastian reader and
let’s talk about another thief silvio astier
is a little bigger is 14 years old and
a peso but he also likes it a lot
read why he rents leaflets to
old cobbler of the neighborhood that has
about bandit adventures
those folletines are his passion is
he also dreams of being a bandit
high school undo wrongs protect
to widows be loved by beautiful
maidens with their rogue friends has
formed a club a club of gifts a
club of thieves of uninhabited houses
they call themselves the club of the
knights of midnight
last week they stole the library
from a school they wanted to take the
encyclopedic dictionary in 28 volumes and
some other books that could
resell well but let’s go back a
little in time and let’s go that night
which is also a rainy night of
thunder and lightning of rogues
midnight club are
orienting with a flashlight to what
along a dark corridor to a
wooden door on which a
veneer is malt where you read library
is with a lever without jumping the
lock and go where you look there
books and bookshelves
reds full of books that arrive
up to the ceiling and the rogues begin
browse them to see which ones are going to
take the leopoldo gold mountains
lugones
If a book is that it is not exhausted
can give good money for the roots
organic and inorganic chemistry not
mathematical infinitesimal calculus
superior should be expensive and suddenly yes
they came lived and lee chang can talk
from this
it looses and begins to recite I adore you
there was vault of the night sky or vase
of sadness or taciturn white is said
silvio you are beautiful this
I take to my house this I’m not going to
resell now silvio astier ha
found a book for yours is what
steals silvio astier the rabid toy
he knows perfectly well that reading has a
price
that’s why he rents folletines that’s why
improperly appropriated foreign books
he knows that books have a value of
exchange can be bought can be sold
but they also have a value that does not
it is material
for example every time he goes to say or
do something he thinks what they would have
said or done the characters of
his adventure book to live
some afternoon his mother begs him silvio
we can not keep you have to go to
work and silvio that is reading looks
his mother with rancor and thinks and works
always work the job for silvio
astier is the back of the reading for
bastian also read is totally what
opposed to studying for him
reading is a life adventure and the school
not to be a space where you can
live adventures and much less water
above all he understands that the book there
a boy you’re interested in is not the one that
teacher age is the book he chooses
him and in the case of bastia not even
he has chosen the book the book what
found him
the book has been read and has been charged
life in the same way is already power has
entered the life from silvio astier
the thief has been robbed so much
bastian as he followed are as he says or are
adventurers who start a journey
to build something that they know
to the extent that they read and read for
get away from routine and boredom
of the effort and work that life
unsatisfactory read because they want
nobody obliges them to read because if miguel
I sang a former student of this school
National of Buenos Aires counts on
juvenile already as during his times of
pupil reading books
academics was unbearable and
that on the contrary away from his mother
of your house
the novels were his nap salvation
comments when he slips one night to the
church of san ignacio when while
is holding a funeral to steal
the sail lines that hide their
vest and that is worn to illuminate the
Afternoons reading reading
novels and the bad adventure novels
and terror
the three musketeers the mysteries of
udolf castle the spy of the dean
world many times
If you want to go to recess, leave your
fourth to continue reading
of the amba those love stories
lunches of friends adeada everything so
different from his own life
now let’s think how many characters there are
who are passionate ravers of
books or that are snatched by the
books
hamlet enters the scene reading a book
immediately after the appearance
the ghost of his father disturbed him
because he is alone and does not know what to do
juan dahlmann the character in the story
South of Jorge Luis Borges discovers
reading through a thousand and one
night as well as the street rivadavia
It divides the city of Buenos Aires into two
in the same way each one of us
we are also two what really
we are and what we want to be
Alonso Quijano dreams to be the
Quixote or not
the reader of july verne de almudena de
Andes dreams to understand what
he and his family live in the middle of
Spanish civil war the branch
complete works of walter scott to reason
of a volume x day the little matilda
of theft when giving in the public library
from his neighborhood he has a lot of books
10 years but read webb he dickens him to
hemingway does not understand them well but reads
while your parents are in bingo or
watching television
read also Madame Bovary many
romantic novels to be able to have a
romantic life ana karenina reads one
English novel arrive at depends terrors
of treasures of betrayals reads in a
train whose routes to throw months
then read the continuity character of
the parks of julio cortázar for
know how they are going to kill him
the first scene of the crimes of the
street morgue
precisely happens in a bookstore
mark so the narrator is known
why to like dup in the first
detective the first police
both are there without knowing it looking
the same book
robinson he used moves away from madness
and isolation
reading the few books he has
found after the shipwreck that
They were in a chest next to tobacco
Read all read to understand read
to dream they read to live they read because
they do not want because it forces me many
Sometimes I read and read books that I do not
they like books that mean little to
me academic books that bore me or
that irritates me novels that turn out to be
heavy from the second chapter
poems that do not touch me in anything but the
school in college I have been told
I have to read and finally I am
literature teacher
I have to read and I have to do
read I’ve spent more than 30 years acting
as a literature teacher sometimes
feeling like a nurse
resuscitator of dying literature in
Literature classrooms over 30 years
until today and in front of you
I come to propose that the school
Literature is not a subject
curriculum that does not have to be evaluated
that there are no literature exams a
boy can not be tortured to give a
literature review that makes a
teacher send his students to exam and
literature again and again
year after year he has not thought of anything that
I can avoid these moments so
embarrassing read is not a must and a
moral obligation is a necessity and it is
Free is not compensated with a
qualification
I really believe that the guys and they are the
teenagers are very good readers and
that will remain so if the
adults allow it and stimulate their
enthusiasm instead of testing
permanently their competencies if the
they let imagine instead of always being
asking them to apply theories if they
propose to read books that interest them and
that affect and influence your life and not
those books that are supposedly
useful or about which they have
written study guides but they
they ask for reading reports so
police but on the contrary
genuinely awaken their curiosity and
your concerns without using the books
of literature to download lines
ideological religious policies
ethical or of any kind but
build walls of knowledge
around the books filling them
the guys from historical data and about
artistic movements nor the
overwhelm with the bibliography if they leave
that the boys get in touch with
the books in a direct dialogue and
staff because what really matters
is not what happens around the
books
What is really important is what
it happens within oneself
between the book and me the reader
in order if adults are not
they turn into load what has to be
a relaxed situation and
Enriching read as Daniel says
pennac the verb read as the verb
dream as the verb love does not tolerate
imperative reading is a choice
[Applause]
I dream of the school that I love the one that
stimulates boys to read without classes
mandatory exams or meetings
electives where a group of boys
together with a teacher and start together a
way of readings because because yes
but why to read literature but
what for nothing
perhaps to show that leisure
creative is probably one of the
most interesting legacies of the
classic antiquity now close all
eyes and think of a book that stops
you have been a before and after
one of those books in which one
after having read them you feel that
has climbed a few steps on the ladder
of life
his life was chosen and now what are they going
to do to appropriate the books
they will be able to continue reading beyond
the law of reading and school or
they will let you steal the hours of
pleasure and happiness in the company of
a good league
thank you very much
[Applause]
[Music]
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