Guanajuato, Gto., June 8, 2016. The third cycle of "Pasando corriente. Charlas sobre literature," one of the activities of the Program Promotion of Reading, that seeks to approach books to children, teenagers and adults, in a ludic way and at the same time reflective.

"Pasando corriente. Charlas sobre literatura", in its third cycle, began on May 5th with the intervention of Andreas Kurz and Ramón Bárcenas Deanda –from the Department of Spanish Letters and the Department of Philosophy of the University of Guanajuato, --respectively—with the talk named "No hay dolor más grande que el dolor de ser vivo", about the work of Juan Rulfo.

In the activities intervened Inés Ferrero and Gabriela Trejo, from the Department of Spanish Letters, with the talk "Perverse (re)creations: Inés Arredondo and Guadalupe Dueñas." In addition, the poet from Celaya and professor of this department, Eugenio Mancera Rodríguez, read passages from his poetry.

Rolando Álvarez, passed energy toward the work of the Peruvian Julio Ramón Ribeyro and Enrique Congrains, with the talk called "The word of the mute: Ribeyro and Congrains". Finally, intervened Lilia Solórzano Esqueda and Asunción Rangel, with a talk about the poetry of the Cuban Fina García Marruz.

Nearly 80 people attended, in different days, to the talks about divulgation presented by the members of the Academic Bodies "Literary Studies: Discursive configurations and poetry" and "Studies of poetry and Spanish literacy critic", as well as professors from the Department of Spanish Letters and the Department of Philosophy of Campus Guanajuato from UG.

This cycle was made in the French Alliance of Guanajuato, thanks to a collaboration agreement signed between university authorities, authorities of the studies of the French language and the Mexican Cultural Centre (MCC-United Kingdom).

Reading as a ludic activity

The program Promotion of Reading tries to familiarize children, teenagers and adults with the habit of reading literary works. Parts from reading, in the first place, is a pleasure, a pleasant way to learn about one self and about the social and historic environments.

The French Alliance and UG are institutions that provide an intellectual potential and high diffusion, that allows them to create awareness in a heterogeneous public on the increasing importance of reading and the reflection of what has been read.