BLOG TAG: pen world voices
| Wednesday, May 7, 2008 12:53PM | | | | LITERATURE AND THE THREE MUSKETEERS | | Tags: PEN World voices | | | LITERATURA Y LOS TRES MOSQUETEROS
Luis Alberto Ambroggio
LITERATURA Y LOS TRES MOSQUETEROS
Esta es la historia o la ficción de un evento singular. En el auditorio de la YMCA de la calle 92 de Nueva York (Y92, como dicen los neoyorquinos), se reencontraron Salman Rushdie, Humberto Eco y Mario Vargas Llosa, los “tres mosqueteros”, según... | | | | | | | Wednesday, May 7, 2008 12:49PM | | | | FROM THE SUBLIME TO THE GROTESQUE | | Tags: PEN World Voices | | | |
DESDE LO GROTESTO A LO SUBLIME Y TODO ES ARTE
De camino para escuchar las Voces del Mundo, en el Festival de Literatura Internacional, organizado por PEN en la ciudad de Nueva York, en la esquina de la 2da. Avenida y la calle 49 Este, allí en la calle, un hombre decidido, me da un papel que afirma “la empresa de construcción Rovini explota a trabajadores inmigrantes, de la minorías, sin preocuparse de su seguridad física, de su salud y de un sustento mínimo…” Pretendo desentenderme para concentrarme en las lecturas de Europa y México que me han asignado cubrir, impartidas por cinco autores de renombre mundial , acompañados de una silla vacía símbolo... | | | | | | | Thursday, May 1, 2008 2:20PM | | | | Listening to Another Tongue | | Tags: Péter Esterházy, Celestial Harmonies, PEN World Voices, Magyar | | | Last night I wanted to be Hungarian. When Péter Esterházy took the podium at Town Hall for PEN World Voices “Public Lives/Private Lives” along side fellow literary giants Michael Ondaatje, Annie Proulx, A.B. Yehoshua, Carol Bracho, Rian Malan, Evelyn Schlag, Ian McEwan, Francine Prose, and Salman Rushdie, he began by saying, “I don’t speak English, I speak Hungarian. You speak English, you don’t speak Hungarian. This is the problem.” Then he carefully removed his reading glasses from his pocket, and put them on, telling us, “I see either you or the text. This is the problem.” I laughed, my own reading glasses perched on the tip of my nose as I took notes in the semi-dark.
Hungarian (or Magyar, the Hungarian name for... | | | | | | | Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:15AM | | | | PEN World Voices/Literary Films | | Tags: PEN World Voices, Film, Leora Skolkin-Smith | | | (The event was an evening of short, literary films. It was held Tuesday, April 29 at 6 pm at the Goethe Institut in New York and referred to as: The Rattapallax/PEN World Voices Literary Film Feast)
“It has always seemed to me a rare privilege this, of being an American,” Gertrude Stein wrote in her sweeping, beguiling epic, written in the 1920’s: “The Making of Americans” , “...a real American, one whose tradition it has taken scarcely sixty years to create. We need only realise our parents. remember our grandparents and know ourselves and our history is complete.” In “The Making of Americans”, Gertrude Stein also brought an odd and singular rhythm to these sentences and the ones that followed... | | | | | |
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