Kosmopolis
International Literature Fest

It is a feast-laboratory where Literature is the main focus of attention. Five days to celebrate a universalistic discourse, a feast to emancipate readers, to stimulate the canon’s mutation, to shake genres, to sail in languages and to revise myths, traditions and identities.

In a context where the written word, the oral word and the electronic word reflect the tremors of a globalized world, a prospect of mutating genres, categories, formats and storage systems is emerging. Kosmopolis condenses and amplifies this process, placing literature in the centre of the scene and interacting with the Arts and Sciences.

Kosmopolis. International Festival of Literature is a date with art and freedom inspired in an old consciousness: we are citizens of the cosmos, citizens of the universe.

Kosmopolis 02: 11-15 December, 2002

Kosmopolis 04: 14-19 September, 2004

Kosmopolis 05: 2-4 December, 2005 (Special Edition)

Kosmopolis 06: 18-22 October, 2006

Kosmopolis 08: 22-26 October, 2006

 

Being cosmopolitan does not mean being indifferent to one country, and being sensitive, to others. It means the generous ambition of being sensitive to all countries and all ages, the desire for eternity, the desire for having been many.

Jorge Luis Borges