Can we say that globalization began in the capital of Portugal? That question is the common thread of this trip through the Ler Devagar, Bertrand and Travessa bookstores, the National Library of Portugal and that of the Gulbenkian Foundation, or the José Saramago Foundation, together with José Pinho, Pilar del Río, Maria Inês Cordeiro and Alberto Manguel. And the spoken word of Telma Tvon. .