Opening of the 31st Geneva Book and Press Fair

Alain Berset opens the Geneva Book and Press Fair.

He starts from a short story by Dezső Kosztolányi: a thief turned translator makes the objects of the original text disappear from his translations. The danger, he says, is the disappearance of words, which “leads to the impoverishment of ideas”. We must read and nurture the pleasure of reading.

Speeches on this site

• 31e Salon du livre et de la presse de Genève (French-language page)

Sources

• Federal Council, speech of 26.04.2017