After three months of activity, Dialogues of Our History concluded its Spring Season 2025 program with the presentation “Caracol de las Letras: Encounter with the Classics,” featuring Johana García, Eduardo Vázquez, and Rodrigo Nevárez.
At this event, the guests of honor shared their passion for classical literature, discussed the importance of maintaining this habit with classic books, and shared texts from their favorite books.
The first to participate was Johana García, who highlighted her love of reading the book “Crime and Punishment,” a work by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The story struck her as the character is an intelligent person who commits crimes, which, far from affecting her, provoke emotion, and when he receives punishment, he shows no remorse.
Eduardo Vázquez shared his love for “The Call of Cthulhu,” by Howard Phillips Lovecraft, a book he finds fascinating because it talks about the cosmos and the planets, presents fantasy literature, and to a certain extent emphasizes the terror of things not of this earth—elements that have always captivated him.
Rodrigo Nevárez indicated that one of his favorite books is “Madame Bovary,” by Gustave Flaubert, a work that tells the adventures of a madame who seeks love by marrying a doctor, sadly not finding it, but rather a tragedy that takes place in the mid-19th century.
Alonso Guerra, the event coordinator, thanked the young readers for their participation, questioning them about the reasons for choosing these authors, names that are unknown to many but who are important in world literature. The reasons varied, but they agreed that they were contemporary geniuses of their time.
