By Wolfgang Bongers (excerpt): I should begin by commenting that Expanding Poetry is a «link» book, even if it's not an experimental edition in the sense Fernando uses in the book. It creates a link because it goes beyond a simple history of experimental literary practices in Chile. On the one hand, it is an exploration of…
Wednesday, September 10th → 6 PM → Roberto Bellarmino Hall. Central House → Av. Bernardo O'Higgins 1825. Los Héroes Metro. Downtown Santiago. «The Fabric of Criticism. An Anthology of Readings. Javier Edwards.» The presentation of this book will be led by two writers with extensive careers in Chilean literature. The book...
Tuesday, August 27 → 7:00 PM Bar Santo Remedio → Román Díaz 152. Providencia. «Poetry in Expansion. Experimental Literary Practices in Chile 2000-2020. Author Fernando Pérez Villalón». The presentation of this book offers an overview of diverse experimental literary practices in Chile in the new millennium and proposes a critical and theoretical model for approaching them...
Wednesday 03/13 → 12:00 PM → Aula Magna, Av. Bernardo O’Higgins 1825 Santiago Centro. Universidad Alberto Hurtado Main Campus. «The Dark Men. Blood and Hope. Critical Edition by Juan José Adriasola and Luis Valenzuela.» On this occasion, we will present this critical edition of two of the most notable social novels of the 20th century brought together in a...
Tuesday 23rd / 6:30 PM / UAH / Digital TV «The Chilean Novel of Grínor Rojo» This launch will be a conversation with the distinguished academic and critic Grínor Rojo, discussing his recent publication which covers almost 150 years of novels in Chilean literature. It is a special tribute to the...
Between the countryside, literary guerrillas, and an ecological rereading: the keys to Zurzulita, the high point of Chilean criollismo. Catalina Araya, a journalist for Culto, from the newspaper La Tercera, writes a sharp text about the book Zurzulita. Critical edition by Mariano Latorre. She writes in her headline: «A story that marked the course of criollismo..."
An excerpt from Nicolás Poblete's report and interview with Lorena Amaro and the Biblioteca Recobrada collection. «The «Biblioteca recobrada» project originates with the initiative of Alejandra Stevenson and Beatriz García-Huidobro, who, from the Universidad Alberto Hurtado, envisioned rescue as a way to “give new life to literature written by women in..."
