Lucia’s beguiling prose at The Reading Experience
“In any good piece of writing it is not an identification with a situation, but this recognition of truth that is thrilling.” I always come back to Lucia Berlìn’s stories in search of truth…the story’ s the thing, as she put it.
At the Reading Experience with Tony Morrison
“Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.” Jazz me by Toni Morrison
The Grandmothers at the Reading Experience
The Grandmothers by Doris Lessing left a profound impression on me years ago. I’d like to sit with you and share your experience of reading the first story of this gem collection. At the Reading Experience.
Protest stories of resistence
Next in our Reading Experience: Protest stories of resistance. In the age of fake news and post-truth politics, this book fights fiction with well researched, historically accurate fiction.
Entrevista a Doris Lessing en The Telegraph
In our next session at The Reading Experience will focus on a short story by Doris Lessing, The Grandmothers: «These lives were easy. Not many people in the world have lives so pleasant, unproblematical, unreflecting: no one in these blessed coasts lay awake and wept for their sins, or for money, let alone for food.» Leer entrevista completa
Intimacy de Hanif Kureishi
En una novela desesperadamente honesta, Kureishi cuenta la historia de una separación. Poco a poco, en una verdadera escalada de sinceridad y lucidez, van surgiendo los detalles sórdidos, los pensamientos asesinos, los hechos y los gestos que habitualmente preferimos silenciar, la intimidad desnuda de una pareja. Crónica del fin del amor y el comienzo del […]
Experience de Martin Amis
La autobiografía de Martin Amis nos invita a recorrer la vida, los libros y los libros detrás de los libros de uno de los más extraordinarios narradores contemporáneos. Amparado por las figuras tutelares de Vladimir Nabokov y Saul Bellow, nos ofrece un magistral paseo por la cuerda floja de unas memorias que, no conformándose simplemente […]
Samuel Beckett
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Samuel Beckett (1906 – 1989), who lived in Paris and wrote his plays and novels in French, not because his French was better than his English, but because it was worse. In works such as Waiting for Godot, Endgame,Molloy and Malone Dies, he wanted to show the limitations of language, […]
Ali Smith: Fiction is ‘one of our ways to get to truths that are really difficult to talk about’
“Fiction and lies are the opposite of each other,” Smith insisted. “Lies go out of their way to distort, or to turn you away from, the truth. Fiction is one of our ways to get to truths that are really difficult to talk about, that we haven’t yet been able to articulate, or see yet; […]
Why confidence in Argentina’s economy is dwindling
When a business-friendly conservative was elected president of Argentina in October 2015, hopes were high he would put the South American country’s economy on a stable path. Mauricio Macri promised to revive Argentina’s economy and achieve “zero poverty”. But less than three years later, he has unexpectedly asked for the early release of a loan […]