Subtitle:
Activity Type:
Lecture
Presenter:
Julio Premat
Date:
Wednesday, April 6, 2022 - 13:00 to 15:00
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Location:
Cathedral 501
Contact Person:
Taylor Loray Pipkin
Contact Phone:
Contact Email:
tlp66@pitt.edu
Event Web Site:
Cost:
This talk focuses on three imaginary writers invented by Borges: Pierre Menard, Herbert Quain and Mir Bahadur Alí, on how the invention of these authors, and the imagining of their literary production, as a way for Borges to invent himself as a new kind of writer in the 1940s, and to reimagine literary history.
UCIS Unit:
Center for Latin American Studies
Other Pitt Sponsors:
Department of Hispanic Languages & Literatures
Borges Center
Is Event Already in University Calendar?:
No