4 Lecturas 4 Continentes 2025
After exploring crime fiction (2021), 20th-century chronicles (2022), love and humor (2023), and nature (2024), the theme for 2025 will be travel literature. Travel, as a literary theme, has been central to literature since the most classic works. Today, migration and globalization have made the act of traveling a central aspect of our society and, therefore, of literature as well. Travel, as a process of change and reflection, is often also a metaphorical process, where we recognize the evolution of a protagonist who explores the unknown, but also the past, their fears, and their history or that of others. In this selection of works, the theme of travel is what unites all the novels, either because they reflect on the act of traveling, or because events occur during the journey that motivate the plot, or even because the journey itself is an action that incites the beginning of a story. Through these novels, we can recognize how the theme of travel is portrayed in different works, from chronicles that explore other worlds and realities to novels where travel is a source of narrative conflict or the engine that motivates the character to begin an adventure. This club features a specialized moderator, the presence of authors in virtual meetings, and debates with readers from four continents. The debate among readers takes place asynchronously on the club's blog during the reading period, three weeks before the virtual meeting with the author, facilitated by a moderator specializing in literature, and 1 live via video conference on the day of the meeting with the author, at the end of the reading. The reading program planned for this year is as follows: La pasadora by Laia Perearnau (February 15th to March 8th) In the Distance by Hernán Díaz (May 24th to June 14th) Land of Fields by David Trueba (September 13th to October 4th) Quebrada by Mariana Travacio (November 15th to December 6th)