Guanajuato, Gto., March 6, 2018.- The fifth Cycle of "Pasando Corriente" talks has begun. The cycle began over two years ago where several college students who love reading, convinced of sharing their ideas and circulate the literary work of authors around the word, epochs and genres.

On the matter spoke Dr. Daniel Ayala Bertoglio, a professor at the Department of Languages of the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities (DCSH) of Campus Guanajuato of the University of Guanajuato (UG), also coordinator of the talks and the Editorial Forum and Academic Publishing "Eugenio Trueba" in the Direction of Cultural Extension.

Likewise, M. Diana Alejandra Espinoza Elías, owner of the "La Librería", found in the San Fernando Plaza, an independent space that generously shares and where they have found the best place for these literary talks.

Dr. Ayala recalled that this is the fifth cycle of talks that develop every six months, an idea that emerged together with Dr. Lilia Solórzano and Dr. Asunción Rangel in the Department of Spanish Languages, yes with college students, but open for the public.

The coordination of these work has rotated and, once more, is the turn of the professors of the Department of Languages to coordinate this cycle that began in February and will conclude in May 31 this year.

In addition, there has been the inclusion of a graduate of languages, David Ortiz, who is also the manager of book fairs; Likewise, M. Alejandro Montes, Coordinator of Diffusion, Cultural Extension and Director of the horror film cycle "Aurora" and whose presentation will talk about the writer Bernardo Esquinca, precisely of the genre of terror.

Dr. Ayala Bertoglio pointed out that it is already the second cycle that is done in "La Librería", there had been several scenarios, but this space is very beautiful, so he thanked the generosity of the Mtra. Espinoza.

After the first cycles, he said, they have been adding people and projects, such as "Promotion to reading", the "Cátedra Revueltas" where the majority belongs to those who participate in the talks; in the same way, the academic bodies of literature "Literary studies, discursive and poetic configurations", "Studies of poetics and Hispano-American literary critique", all of them of the Department of Hispanic Languages.

Among others, the talks have been, on the proposal of each speaker, the Chilean poet Raúl Zurita; then a Cuban writer, Calver Casey; a Mexican writer, María Luisa Puga; the Mexican poet, Ali Chumacero; this in the month of February.

Now in March, Mario Levrero has already chatted; this Thursday 8th, M. Flor Aguilera will speak of Nellie Campobello; on Thursday 15th, Dr. Felipe Oliver will speak about Antonio Di Benedetto. There are talks about Efrén Hernández, José Asunción Silva, Gilberto Owen, Jorge Cuesta, Elena Garro, Martín Adam, Juan Marse and Bernardo Esquinca.

The purpose of making these talks public, is take them in some way out from the formal campuses, has its raison d'être in the inclusion of the public, that is, with students but also with any interested, because it is not a class, but a disclosure and the invitation to know authors.

In the same way, M. Diana Alejandra Espinoza Elías, also editorial coordinator of the DCSH, observed that the circle of writers has been very balanced in the genres (poetry, narrative) and in the epochs: contemporaries, of the beginning of the century, of past centuries, of authors presented by people who have enjoyed it.

They are authors, she said, not so read and not so published, or that only they are already in bookstores of old, that suffer from some exclusion of the commercial publishers.

As the owner of "La Librería", she was happy with the link, because although it is an independent space, it does not exempt the relationship with the University of Guanajuato to develop cultural activities, in a place where they already fulfilled three years and having added these talks, it has given an interesting activation.

The public itself is young, she acknowledged, it is almost natural to La Librería, but the talks have generated another movement that not only has to do with marketing, but in the circulation of literature, which on a large scale is the central project and that goes beyond the sale of a book: it goes to the promotion of reading and the exchange of ideas.

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