Zadie Smith was born in London in 1975. She was educated at Hampstead Comprehensive and King’s, Cambridge, where she occasionally performed as a singer and actor. Her story, «The Embassy of Cambodia» originally appeared in The New […]
Categoría: Café Literario
Funes el memorioso
ut nihil non iisdem verbis redderetur auditum El jueves, 8 de noviembre a las 19:30 hs. nos veremos en La Biela de Plaza Francia en Recoleta para charlar sobre el cuento, «Funes el memorioso» […]
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood was born on November 18, 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She is a novelist, poet, literary critic and essayist. According to her online Wikipedia profile, she has published 17 books of poetry, 16 […]
El orgullo de Borges
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. […]
Taller de escritura creativa
“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.” […]
Poetry / poesía de Czesław Miłosz
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 […]
Todo se desmorona
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 […]
Things Fall Apart
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 […]
The Literature of Resistance
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 Trump
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 […]
Café Literario en Buenos Aires 