Dear Alexandra (and of course you can use my first name 🙂

I’ve read the Latin American authors in Spanish a while ago but judging by the quality of the publishing houses they should be good translations. I found a couple of Bolaño’s essays in The New York Review of Books if you are…[Read more]

Hi Alexandra,

Your project sounds really cool, I hope I can send a contribution in the future.

As for suggestions, I thought of Orhan Pamuk’s The Naive and Sentimental Novelist and to include the Latin American tradition in the conversation: Roberto Bolaño’s Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles, and Speeches, 1998-2003, García Marquez’s Li…[Read more]

Hi Mario,

I taught a graduate course on Iberian Studies last year and I’ll email you my syllabus and thoughts on the seminar.

Best,

Bill

Thank you all for your posts and comments. I would just like to add a couple of observations.

On the significance of these manifestoes, my impression is that, in reality, they are inconsequential. I believe that one of the the fundamental errors that many intellectuals are making when it comes to the secession of Catalonia is to consider it a…[Read more]

Thank you Aldolfo and Elisa for these two posts. I agree with Elisa in what she says about the Manifiesto. Indeed there are no surprises in their discourse, yet one remains baffled with statements like this one: “Reclamamos al Estado que aplique toda la ley y advierta con claridad de las consecuencias de violarla. Ninguna infracción debe quedar…[Read more]

Susan Larson