Motivated by its commitment to sharing knowledge that improves life, the University of La Serena launched a campaign to encourage reading. For 14 days, via email and social networks, he will recommend reading or rereading classic and contemporary works.

The institutional initiative seeks to convert this time of preventive and voluntary quarantine into a space to promote the reading of classic or contemporary works, universal and Chilean literature, always in the university spirit of bringing educational and cultural resources to as many people as possible. people.

"We believe that these days that we live and that we still have to live, will be conducive for each one to find options where to cultivate the spirit, the body and the intellect. Reading, in all its expression, allows precisely this cultivation, as it transports us to real and imaginary worlds, promoting our creativity, understanding and expanding our horizons," says Mg. Carola Espinoza, Director of the DirCom, one of the driving units of the initiative.

For his part, the Director of Libraries, Mg. Héctor García, comments on the #StayAtHome #VuelveALeer initiative that "it is an invitation that allows us to meet again as readers, to be able to cope with these days and to once again create new worlds that will allow us to grow fully as people. To conclude, I compare this quote from Ricardo Piglia in 'The Last Reader': then I understood what I already knew: what we can imagine always exists, on another scale, in another time, clear and distant, just like in a dream."