Lecture in Spanish

Speaker: Santiago Craig, Writer and poet

Discussant: Christina Lee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

This talk seeks to show the conditions of fiction production in Argentina in first person, the southernmost country of the continent. What it's like to write in the periphery, in a context of crisis, in permanent unpredictability and precariousness. In the country of great storytellers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar or Silvina Ocampo, being a writer is inventing a life, a time apart from contingencies and believing in the interior of a story. Write despite everything, against everything. Insist on writing. In addition to portraying these experiences, this talk will feature the reading of passages from some of the author's books.

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