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Kosmopolis 2014. Mirador Kosmopolis: Unknown classics

Dialogue with Laura Baena, Valeria Bergalli, Oscar Van Gelderen, Daniel Osca and Muge Sökmen

The Mutant Canon: Publishing Unknown Classics

Backing the publication of unknown classics is one of the options that a publisher can choose nowadays to earn a prestigious position among readers. To what extent can the contemporary publication of classics modify the literary canon? Can a classics publisher create trends? What literatures – large or small – remain to be discovered in Europe? A dialogue between publishers, where we try to answer these and other questions related to the construction of catalogues that challenge the present with past titles.

Related to Kosmopolis. Continuous Programme 2014, Kosmopolis, Mirador Kosmopolis: Unknown classics and new writers

18 June 2014