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Tuesday, March 20

Periodismo y literatura en Jorge Luis Borges”
Time:
3:03 pm to 5:00 pm
Presenter:
Sylvia Saítta, Univesidad de Buenos Aires-Conicet
Location:
William Pitt Union, Dinning Room B
Sponsored by:
Center for Latin American Studies along with Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures and the Humanities Center

This talk will look at links between Borges and mass circulation media, with attention both to his presence in the media (in the cultural supplement of La Prensa, in the Revista Multicolor de los Sábados, in El Hogar and in later participation in newspapers and magazines) and to his reflections on the relations between journalism and literature. Sylvia Saítta is the author of Regueros de tinta: El diario Crítica en la década de 1920 and El escritor en el bosque de ladrillos: Una biografía de Roberto Arlt, the director of the Archivo Histórico de Revistas Argentinas (ahira.com.ar) and the editor of El oficio se afirma, vol. 9 of the Historia crítica de la literatura argentina.