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 […]
Café Literario en Buenos Aires
Café Literario existe para fomentar la lectura de buenos libros en comunidad.
Julio Cortázar sobre la lectura con música
Jamás he podido leer escuchando música, y ésta es una cuestión bastante importante, porque tengo amigos de un nivel intelectual y estético muy alto para quienes la música, que en ciertas circunstancias puedan escuchar concentrándose, […]
En un café de Retiro
Hace poco fui a tomar un café con unos amigos después de visitar la Villa 31 de Retiro. Detrás de todo es una asociación civil sin fines de lucro que trabaja para promover la inclusión […]
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 […]
Flannery O’Connor’s Revelation
“Please help me dear God to be a good writer and to get something else accepted.” These are the words written by Flannery O’Connor in her prayer journal sometime between January 1946 and September 1947. […]
Los libros y la conversación
¿Qué es la cultura? ¿Qué es ser culto? La cultura puede definirse como la gran conversación acerca de qué significa ser humanos. Entonces sigue que ser culto sería estar informado/a acerca de esta gran conversación […]
The Power of Words
If literature is a metaphor for the writer’s experience, a mirror in which that experience is at least partially reflected, it is at the same time a mirror in which the reader can also see […]
Welcome to Café Literario
Welcome to the new Café Literario Blog! Earlier this year we began this experiment called Café Literario. We wanted to read good books with good people. C.S. Lewis writes that beauty is made complete […]
