"I created this bookstore like a man would write a novel, building each room like a chapter, and I like people to open the door the way they open a book, a book that leads into a magic world in their imaginations. —George Whitman"
A bit of history... Shakespeare and Co. is an English-language bookshop, founded by American George Whitman in 1951. A curious fact is that this bookshop has been a shelter for an estimated 30,000 young artists and writters that are struggling to get by. Whitman knows this feeling because before opening the bookshop, he hitchhicked the US, Mexico and Central America. During his trip he found himself gravely ill, but a tribe of Mayan people nursed him back to health in Yucatán, México. This act of kindness inspred his filosofy, “Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise”, which made him want to make his bookshop a sanctuary for writers, artists and intellectuals who were welcome to sleep on its benches and piles of books.
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Escrito por Carolina Hernández
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