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Winner of the 2023 Franz Kafka International Literary Award, Jorge Luis Arcos‘s El Castigo has been highly praised for its unique and undefinable structure, encompassing the genres of essay, memoirs, epistolary, and novel all at once. Subtitled ‘Letters Exchanged with Lorenzo García Vega and Other Texts, or How to (Re)Construct (Imagine) a Canon,’ the book is teeming with anecdotes and observations about Cuban intellectual life, and, in the process, probes into the ontological nature of exile.
In conversation with the author will be the poet and writer Pablo de Cuba, and the writer and critic Carlos Aguilera Chang. The presentation will be followed by a live Q&A via Zoom with the audience, moderated by writer Manuel Rodríguez Ramos, from our Literature Program.
This event is part of our CreateNYC Language Access Series on Cuban History, Art, and Literature. It will be held in Spanish and will be streamed through our YouTube channel.
[Image above: Jorge Luis Arcos and Lorenzo García Vega in Madrid, 2009.]
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Cuban writer and poet, and literary critic Jorge Luis Arcos (Havana, 1956) is one of the most important Cuban literary critics of his generation, and is regarded as a preeminent scholar on the origenist literary movement on the Island. He holds a doctorate from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. From 1995 to 2004 he co-edited with Enrique Saínz in Havana the art and literary journal Unión. He is the author of numerous books of essays, among them, La solución unitiva. Sobre el pensamiento poético de José Lezama Lima (1990); Orígenes. La pobreza irradiante (1994); Desde el légamo. Ensayos sobre pensamiento poético (2007); and Kaleidoscopio. La poética de Lorenzo García Vega (2012); as well as several poetry books, including, among others, Conversación con un rostro nevado (Premio Luis Rogelio Nogueras, 1993), De los ínferos (Premio Internacional de Poesía Rafael Pocaterra del Ateneo de Valencia, Venezuela 2000), La avidez del halcón (Premio Internacional de Poesía Centenario de Rafael Alberti, 2003) and Del animal desconocido (Premio Internacional de Poesía Casa de Teatro, República Dominicana 2002). In 1999 he published the widely acclaimed poetry anthology Las palabras son islas. Panorama de la poesía cubana del siglo XX. He presently resides in Argentina.
This event is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature.
With the promotional cooperation of Rialta, 14yMedio and Diario de Cuba
