I ventured inside a bookstore on Av Las Heras and was surprised to see on the front table an unexpected set of fiction works: a 3 volume collection of stories by H.P. Lovecraft (here in Spanish translation, of course).
The front tables in bookstores are usually reserved for the books that are highly promoted. Actually, in the U.S. publishers often pay booksellers for that space, especially at the big chain stores. That might very well be true at the chains here, such as El Ateneo & Cúspide. But I felt a bit of joy that a bookstore in Buenos Aires (or anyplace) featured Lovecraft so prominently.
Sidenote: Yesterday, August 20 was the 119th anniversary of Lovecraft’s birth.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:43 pm
I read your blog for a while and it is so interesting!
I also write about BA, but mostly from NYC
Good job!
August 21st, 2009 at 3:24 pm
@Chukker: Thanks for reading & commenting. Your blog looks interesting. I’m adding it to my feed reader.
November 15th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Hi Jeff! We met on Saturday evening, I’m the Robert’s friend. Glad to see you love Lovecraft. He’s my favourite author. I wrote last year, for the Sudestada magazine, an article about him. Read http://www.revistasudestada.com.ar/web06/article.php3?id_article=521. Here there’s an excerpt, but I can send you the whole thing.
Greetings! Un abrazo.
November 15th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Hi Marcelo,
Great to finally have met you! We’ve heard so much about you from Robert. I’m definitely interested in reading your whole article about Lovecraft.
January 11th, 2010 at 2:25 am
I did my first college research paper on Lovecraft. That was quite some time ago. Before the music group. Hard to get some of his works then.
August 10th, 2011 at 6:09 pm
If you do a Google “Trend” search you will see that interest in Mr. Lovecraft’s work in Argentina, Mexico and other Spanish speaking countries out paces the searches for same in English by almost 3 to 1.