We lingered for a while and abuela arrived. In this case, the company is called AENA (Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea), a public company with a 51% share in the Spanish state, more precisely the Ministry of Transport. Regardless of whether the initiative is initiated by the minister Óscar Puente needs a good college. Another, stronger, Maurici Lucenaentity president. And quién se le ocurre.
It is scandalous that a million euros, no less, is intended to reward “the best fiction book of the year” with the argument – in the words of Lucena, who for this occasion embodies the most repulsive claims of businessmen and leaders – “to transfer to society as much as society has given to the workers and workers of AENA”. This is the best way Lucena can give airport users the humiliation they paid for In the access to vehicles and in the copious amounts of money that AENA gets to convert airports into shop-infested bazaars that are handed over to multinationals to manage in July?
What the hell did AENA get pinned for promoting reading? Or is it that they really believed the “Reading flies” story?
A million euros intended for one author, which is most likely because the term is – I do not understand – any more or less well-known figure, edited by a more or less hegemonic editorial conglomerate. I would laugh if I wasn’t causing outrage. However, what I say about prizes and their mechanics is always damaged or corrupted. With the unsustainable glut of awards of all kinds being awarded in this country, both commercial and institutional. With much better things you could do with that million euros (and many others who will sell at any price) to ensure “access to quality content in learning centres, libraries and cultural spaces”.
Examining the flow of a particular writer, following the ethics of writing, is the idea that Puente and Lucena apparently hold in order to fill the social and cultural work, contributing – from the new Lucena – to the fact that society is “free in a critical spirit, different and challenged by democratic principles”.
No cultural agent with a modicum of dignity and sense of responsibility should be willing to participate in this cute and sleazy tramoy
It is an ingenious strategy to “enhance the reading habit and encourage the publication of good books”. Can readers imagine the privileges given to arbitrarily elected judges, the power to award someone a million euros (more than 30,000 to the four finalists)?
For the same reason, and as it usually happens, the judges will read only five books, pre-selected by the team, also randomly selected, to which integrals are attributed, without knowing the function of these indexes “professional and impartial solvency”, which is undoubtedly necessary to distinguish between thousands of books from more than twenty countries.
But the smallest operations always engañoso ecuánime a mechanism designed specifically to highlight the most obvious and commercially viable. The scandalous returns to these heights for the millionaire’s reward and adds dignity to the prestigious models of Booker (England) or Goncourt (France), whose cultural radiation is no longer visible, as in Spain, painfully distorted by the noisy intervention of decades of commercial prices, all loved to a greater or lesser extent, planets with the same millionaire head.
The politeness of views, the absolute absence of imagination, the lack of social sensitivity and the grotesque emulation and flamboyant inflation that seem to inspire the creation of this prize justify the above emphasis.
No cultural agent with a modicum of dignity and sense of responsibility should be willing to participate in this cute and embarrassing tramoy.
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