The philologist and writer, Irene Vallejo, presented today, on the second day of the Liber International Book Fair, her ‘Manifesto for Reading. Calligraphies of care '. It is an essay written at the request of the Spanish Association of Publishers Guilds (FGEE) in which they want to highlight and justify the universal values of reading in society.

This text is part of the innitiatives that the publishers are developing with the aim of promoting a State Contract for Books and reading among political groups that will make Spain a country of readers. The 'Manifesto for Reading,’ written by Irene Vallejo, is a text of great beauty with which the author has tried to build a case that will "represents us as a group and serves to help us reach an agreement that contributes to favor all those wonderful people who are in this old profession of weaving words and building bridges of feelings, of hope, over the abysses of the present.”

Throughout the pages of the manifesto, Irene Vallejo explains how humanity has taken advantage of the use of one of its great creations, the word, to turn it into a talisman that allows human beings to survive their weaknes as a species. "We are the only species that explains the world with stories, that wants them, longs for them and uses them to heal."  Based on them, and propelled by language and creativity, “thousands of years ago, the invention of a sophisticated technology, writing, opened the doors to preserve knowledge, ideas and dreams, to expand them and make them come alive with every glance that rests on the letters of a page ".

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