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Apoyado en las reflexiones de lectores como Daniel Pennac, Gabriel Zaid y muchos otros, el autor desmiente las falacias sobre la utilidad obligatoria de los libros y recupera la lectura como un acto de placer y ocio. Sin tibiezas y con humor, ¿Qué leen los que no leen? da una merecida estocada a los dogmas sobre la obligación de leer, revela las fallas estructurales de los programas de fomento a la lectura y desenmascara la hipocresía de una cultura que predica la "cualidad humanizadora" de consumir libros, pero que trata como inferiores morales a quienes no lo hacen. Este volumen demuestra que la práctica de la lectura impuesta como obligación conduce al alejamiento de los lectores potenciales y al empobrecimiento cultural de una sociedad. Juan Domingo Argüelles nació en Chetumal, Quintana Roo. Realizó estudios de Letras Hispánicas en la UNAM. Es ensayista, crítico literario y editor.
As supported in the reflections of readers like Daniel Pennac, Gabriel Zaid, and many others, the author reveals fallacies around the uncritical belief in books as an object of utility, instead recovering reading as an act of pleasure and leisure. With warmth and good humor, this book deals a well-deserved blow to cultural assumptions about the need to read, reveals structural failures in literacy programs, and unmasks the hypocrisy of a culture that lauds the humanizing benefits of consuming books while treating those who don't read as morally inferior. It demonstrates that a compulsory practice of reading alienates potential readers and contributes to a sense of cultural poverty in society.
As supported in the reflections of readers like Daniel Pennac, Gabriel Zaid, and many others, the author reveals fallacies around the uncritical belief in books as an object of utility, instead recovering reading as an act of pleasure and leisure. With warmth and good humor, this book deals a well-deserved blow to cultural assumptions about the need to read, reveals structural failures in literacy programs, and unmasks the hypocrisy of a culture that lauds the humanizing benefits of consuming books while treating those who don't read as morally inferior. It demonstrates that a compulsory practice of reading alienates potential readers and contributes to a sense of cultural poverty in society.
