From the journalistic interview to the book: “The voices that count”
"The idea of making the book was born after a couple of years of doing and publishing the interviews in El Mercurio."
This is how Juan Carlos Astudillo, a graduate of the School of Communication, tells us how the work “The voices that count” came about, published by the Editorial House of the UDA and presented on July 9.
The book contains the interviews conducted for that Cuenca newspaper with Maria Rosa Crespo Cordero, Jorge Dávila Vázquez, María Augusta Vintimilla, Alexandra Kennedy, Oswaldo Encalada, Manuel Villavicencio, Freddy Álvarez, Galo Torres, Gabriela Eljuri, José Astudillo, Shakti Ananda and Lorena Tamariz .
"Once I needed to review one of the first for research for the university, looking at all of them, I realized that most of them could be reference material on specific topics, such as Ecuadorian literature, semiotics, academic writing, spirituality ”, recalls Astudillo.
The author points out that the interviews for the media emerged "from the most honest selfishness", that is, from his search to converse with people he admired to learn about the topics they dominated.
“Each interview was like doing a diploma. And it is that doing an interview with Doctor Encalada, for example, forced me to reread his work and several other things about the topics to be discussed. ”
The author thanked the UDA for the possibility of taking this material to the book format and turning it into a reference work.
