by Jorge Carrión · Galaxia Gutenberg, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788417747824
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«Contra Amazon» is the narrative essay by Jorge Carrión, published by Galaxia Gutenberg in paperback (180 pages, in Spanish).
Jorge Carrión travels through real and literary libraries and bookstores, from Seoul to Miami, Naples and Capri, and talks with authors such as Alberto Manguel and Han Kang. Between chronicle and essay, he interprets the libraries of Don Quixote and Captain Nemo and defends the figure of the bookseller and the author-led bookstore against Amazon's expansion.
Published on September 10, 2019, it is the first paperback edition in the Essay collection of Galaxia Gutenberg.
For readers of cultural essays interested in the world of books, libraries and the impact of large digital platforms.
Jorge Carrión is a Spanish writer, cultural critic, and director of the Master in Literary Creation at the Pompeu Fabra University. His published books include the non-fiction works Bookshops (2013) and Barcelona: Book of Passageways (2017), and the novels The Dead (2010), The Orphans (2014), and The Tourists (2015). He writes in the Spanish edition of The New York Times, and he's also a collaborator in international media as the National Geographic magazine, El País, and La Vanguardia.
