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The books are there, separated in a display case, always visible so that the memory is not forgotten: The capitalby Karl Marx, Reform or Revolution?by Rosa Luxemburg, a Portuguese satirical and erotic poetry anthologyby Natália Correia. They are works, among many, whose message was intended to be silenced by a regime. In a closed world, bookstores struggled to keep that message from getting lost. Fifty years ago, from Luís Alves Dias, Livraria Ler was born also with this purpose: to be a space for cultural diffusion, freedom of thought, resistance to oppression. Half a century later, this independent neighborhood bookstore was distinguished as a Store with History by the Lisbon City Council, which gave it some protection in terms of leasing. “It is a recognition. This in architectural terms is of very little interest, but it is a bit about the history of bookstores. My father was one of the last resistant booksellers ”, says Luís Alves, the narrator of the stories that follow and who today has the mission of managing with his sister the legacy that his father left us.
