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Homage to Ricardo Piglia: Emilio Renzi’s Diaries

A conversation with professor John Kraniauskas (Birkbeck College), the writer Carlos Fonseca and the critic, translator and radio host Juan Toledo.

If with Jorge Luis Borges we learnt to see literature as a narrative and even as a universal game, with his successor, Ricardo Piglia, we have the opportunity to esteem the universality within the same Argentinian literature. Piglia was an historian whose work can be read as a historiography of Argentinian writing, rescuing authors like Macedonio Fernández and Roberto Arlt.

His literary work was wide, as it includes every field: reading, critique and writing of novels and short stories. Piglia focuses on how we can read and write after the so called Latin American Boom. In that sense, his novel Respiración Artificial is an irrefutable proof of what kind of novel must be written after Borges, Cortázar and Gabriel García Márquez.

The presentation seeks to cast light on how Ricardo Piglia complements Emilio Renzi as well as clarify the reason of his taste for detective novels –a genre that could be in danger of extinction- and some American authors. We will also discuss the peculiarities for which Piglia is still unknown outside Argentina.

This activity is a collaboration between the Instituto Cervantes in London, El Ojo de la Cultura Hispanoamericana and ZTR Radio.

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Details

Date:
November 9, 2017
Time
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Cost:
Free
Website:
http://bit.ly/pigliahomage

Venue

Instituto Cervantes London – new address off the Strand
15-19 Devereux Court
London, WC2R 3JJ United Kingdom
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Phone:
02072010750
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Full Name
Departamento de Cultura Instituto Cervantes de Londres
Email
cultlon1@cervantes.es
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