a Livraria Berlin

Italian and Portuguese books

Cheong Kin from Berlin

""a Livraria" in Berlin gives the street it's one a nice Latin American vibe. An essential shop for Portuguese and Italian language readers in the city..."

This bookstore with a yellow background and name in black letters, together with a little sticker depicting the best known modern Portuguese poet, Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), highlights Torstraße very well and gives it Latin American vibes.

“a Livraria” is a Brazilian-(German-)Italian-Portuguese bookstore. Yes, an “a” in lowercase. And I understand the meaning of this “a” as a Portuguese definite article - “the Bookstore”, it would mean. Although it's sad to see no publication from Macau, a Livraria remains very important for me as I need a reference in Portuguese for my writings, so I can imagine how important it is for Portuguese-language readers in Berlin.

It's beautiful that the bookstore very often offers both Brazilian and Portuguese versions of the same book. I got Camus’s “The Plague” there and one of the books by Slavoj Žižek’s “Pandemic!” - both in their Brazilian editions! Italian books also represent half the bookstore. The very famous Bruno Munari’s “Supplement to the Italian Dictionary” is also to be found, along with a variety of secondhand books in German.

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Berlin Spotter Cheong Kin

About me Obsessed with languages and the aesthetics of East Germany, I have been learning a bunch of German dialects and random languages and have built up my own collection of German books published from the 19th century to the present day. As a translator and visual anthropologist, I reflect every day on life with writings, together with my daily instagramming: I am also a freelance critic who mainly focuses on how understanding language can change one’s world vision and how to tell a visual story. I know many parts of the city - this is thanks to my random enrollme...

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