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Cover: Madrid - Quote from "Letter to Andrés" by writer and journalist Mariano José de Larra

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C. de Lope de Vega, 46, Centro, 28014 Madrid, Spain
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Madrid For all signs in Madrid
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Spain For all signs in Spain
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Metal and Concrete
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Literature and poetry


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On the cover:
"¿No se lee en este país porque no se escribe, o no se escribe porque no se lee?".
Esa breve dudilla se me ofrece por hoy, y nada más.
Terrible y triste cosa me parece escribir lo que no ha de ser leído...

Cartas a Andrés
Mariano José de Larra
Photography:
2025
Eli Zvuluny
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One of the quotes from writers and poets found in the Barrio de las Letras (Literary Quarter)

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Translation of the text on the cover:
"Is it that in this country people do not read because they do not write, or do they not write because they do not read?"
This small doubt presents itself to me today, and nothing more.
It seems to me a terrible and sad thing to write something that will not be read...

Letters to Andrés
Mariano José de Larra

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Madrid - Quote from "Letter to Andrés" by writer and journalist Mariano José de Larra
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