Ralph Ellison was born in Oklahoma, U.S.A. on March 1, 1913. He was a novelist, literary critic and scholar who was first trained as a musician at the Tuskegee Institute from 1933 to 1936. His […]
Ralph Ellison was born in Oklahoma, U.S.A. on March 1, 1913. He was a novelist, literary critic and scholar who was first trained as a musician at the Tuskegee Institute from 1933 to 1936. His […]
Poems and novels, histories and memoirs, dictionaries and blue-books; books written in all languages by men and women of all tempers, races, and ages jostle each other on the shelf. And outside the donkey brays, […]
Que otros se jacten de las páginas que han escrito, a mí me enorgullece las que he leído. – Jorge Luis Borges, «Un lector», 1969 Queremos arrancar este nuevo año del Café Literario con ganas. […]
“Nadie libera a nadie, nadie se libera sólo, [los seres humanos] se liberan en comunión. Nadie educa a nadie, nadie se educa a sí mismo, los hombres se educan entre sí mediatizados por el mundo.” […]
Bilingual meeting / reunión bilingüe: Czesław Miłosz Born in Szetejnie (now Lithuania) on June 30, 1911, Czesław Miłosz is best known for his work as poet, writer, translator and diplomat. Although he was born in the Russian Empire, his […]
Platón decía que la ciudad ideal no tendría lugar para los poetas. No fue el primero y tampoco será el último en desacreditar esta gran tradición de la humanidad. A pesar de ser una de las […]
Una de las razones que se reúne el Café Literario es para explorar diferentes culturas a través de la literatura. Leer nos expande los horizontes y si leemos siempre con virtud, podemos llegar a ser […]
One of the reasons the Café Literario meets is to explore different cultures through literature. Reading broadens our worldview and if we read virtuously, it can increase our solidarity with people who are very […]
In order to counter the hate, irrational distrust and the bigotry of today’s oligarchy, we will dedicate our first meeting in February to the literature of resistance. Literature in a post-truth society reminds us that human […]
La lectura en la era de Trump: la literatura en una sociedad posverdad La lectura como resistencia La filosofía posmoderna nos ha enseñado a cuestionar la verdad y a llevar a todos aquellos que suelen […]