Writer Radu Paraskivescu, present at Bookfest in Tirgu Mures, said that like the landline, the book may disappear at some point, replaced by a number of devices, but the real danger is the disappearance of the act of reading.

“The danger is that the act of reading will disappear. Changing the code, changing the format is not a problem because if the format didn’t change we would still be reading from tablets or from papyrus. Or I don’t think papyrus exists anywhere else but museums, incunabula don’t exist anywhere but museums. So, yes, the book will disappear someday. Not in our lifetime, maybe not in the next century, but someday it will disappear, just as the landline telephone gradually disappears. This is not a drama, the drama is that people will no longer read from Kindle, from all kinds of devices, from a computer. That’s when a big loss is registered. And, of course, it is a loss felt by those who enjoy this pleasure, and felt at the expense of those who do not read. But those who don’t read don’t understand that reading is better,” he said. on Sunday, for AGERPRES, Radu Paraskivescu.

According to the writer, for those who do not read, perhaps it would be more important to satisfy the basic needs, so he believes that just as you can live without many other things, you can also live without a book, and this is where the danger of illiteracy comes from.

“Perhaps, for them, the basic needs are covered and that’s it, the rest doesn’t matter. I mean, you can’t live without food, you can’t live without water, you can’t live without sex or without light. Can you live without books? Can you live without savarina and without high heels. Can you live without many things. This is where the danger lies, illiteracy. Because, as you know, we occupy miserable places in gender ratings. And the fact that there are people who know the words, know how to connect them, but I don’t know what it means when I read it in context, that’s really a danger. And this does not refer to a book on paper, but to the reflex or act of reading,” the writer emphasized.

Radu Paraskivescu presented his three bestsellers at Tirgu Mures Bookfest: “We are Romanians (no one is perfect)”, “Cu inima smulsă din piest” and “Acul de aur si occhi Gloriana” and called on the public to show curiosity also in the direction of opening a book, not only about some worldly scandals.

“I want to enter out of that simple and primal curiosity that makes you wonder what’s behind that door? Especially since it is interesting for both children and parents. I can already see many families coming together. There are also stands with literature for the little ones, there are adventure books, there are essays, memoirs, almost the whole spectrum is covered. And, I repeat, man is by definition an interesting creature, and if he looks through the keyhole to see that they fought with Ana Maria Prodan and Laurentiu Regekampf should straighten their saddles, stop looking into the keyhole, and open the doors of this fair and see that millions or tens of millions of lives live here, because in each book there are so many characters, so many lives and so many destinies,” Radu also said Paraskivescu.

Regarding the return of Bookfest to Tirgu Mures after three years, Radu Paraskivescu believes that it can be seen that “the public’s longing for books has increased”.

“There were many people, probably with the peak day, Saturday, as it happens at all fairs. We have the experience of Bucharest, which says the same thing, with interesting authors, with people dear to us, whom we love – we watch them and especially listen to them. And with my release, which also came out on Saturday, the day of Humanitas, Humanitas had a lot of serial releases then. I published a volume that came out in the spring called “We are Romanians (no one is perfect)”, which contains 75 texts about our immediate situation, what is happening to us, who is it through, what we can do, so that this does not happen – it is not a big thing, we can do it. So it was a launch with smiles and little moments of sadness. Because in addition to laughter, there should be concern, anxiety, anxiety about what will happen. There were a lot of people, a lot of people were also at our other presentations. We closed the program to fanfare with Sandu Stermin, who is a being that Gabriel Liiceanu called his “astral child” who is truly formidable, not only sticky, not only clinging to your soul, but also encyclopedic in his knowledge and hypnotic, so he has a form of magnetism that draws you in,” the writer commented. .

Radu Paraskivescu recalled a meeting with Alexandru Stermin, the author of the bestsellers “Journey Around Man” and “Falled from the Jungle”.

“It was a good fair, I’m glad I came. I hope that next year it will be as harmonious and with good results for both publishers and readers (…) I “used” several passes, because there are people who don’t have new books published yet and who didn’t come just for a preview, just to read two pages. And this is how I announce that Mircea Carterescu’s new novel “Teodoros” will appear. It will probably appear in about a month. Gabriel Liichanu’s book “What is God thinking about? – A bit of theology” will appear in the first decade of October. Therefore, if they were also here, my place would probably be “I was the second headliner after Christian Tudor Popescu”, – said Radu Paraskivescu.

No less anticipated release at the Târgu Mureş Bookfest was the latest volume of the writer and journalist Christian Tudor Popescu – “God is not dead. interception Information Notes”, published by Polirom publishing house.

In fact, the Polirom publishing house was present at Târgu Mureş Bookfest with 300 titles on its stand, including the new volume in the Romantic Biographies series by Alina Nelega, Marioar Voiculescu. Marshal of the Romanian Theater”, a book that presents the story of a character little known outside the circle of playwrights.

“Spoiled by the stage, a friend of Queen Maria of Romania, Marioara Voiculescu was a champion of independent theater, artistic freedom, new interpretations, always reinventing herself, dominating the Romanian stage in the first half of the last century. morality and exemplary consistency, she refused political compromises during the time of the legionnaires, as well as during the communist era, when she was expelled from the theater because she did not agree to step on the “red stage”, – said Alina Neleha.

At the Târgu Mureş Bookfest, the new volume “Literary Prose” by Mihai Eminescu, published by the Humanitas publishing house, edited by Ioana Bot together with the writer Peter Demeny, was presented.

The Târgu Mureş Bookfest was organized by the Association of Romanian Editors under the auspices of the Federation of Romanian Editors in partnership with the Mureș County Prefect Institute.