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 […]
Café Literario existe para fomentar la lectura de buenos libros en comunidad.
Categoría: literature
Virginia Woolf on Reading
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, […]
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 […]
Reading in the Trump Era
Reading in the Trump Era: Literature in a Post-Truth Society Reading as Resistance Postmodern philosophy has taught us to question truth and to push those who make truth claims to understand the consequences of their convictions. […]
Café Literario Member Writes for World Literature Today
Es con gran alegría que compartimos aquí en nuestro blog una entrevista hecha por nuestro amigo y compañero del Café Literario, Paul Holzman. Para World Literature Today, Paul entrevistó a Rocío Cerón, autora de Diorama y […]
Café Literario – septiembre y octubre
Las siguientes reuniones del Café Literario: Truman Capote – Miriam September 24, 19:30, La Biela, Recoleta. For this meeting in English, we will read Capote’s 1945 short story, “Miriam”. Feel free to read another short […]
What Is Literature For?
Check out this amazing video about literature! Have you ever thought that literature might change your life?
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World
Aldous Huxley wrote his most famous novel, Brave New World in 1932. He was a prophet, a man who foresaw things that were to come to pass. His criticism of technology, human relations and even […]
Leo Tolstoy’s Pacifist Anarchism
Leo Tolstoy is well known for his novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina. He is less well known for his short stories. The stories that we read in our last meeting were rather didactic and […]
