Events
Telling uncomfortable truths: Javier Cercas and Juan Gabriel Vásquez on truth and fiction
‘There’s no contradiction between fiction and truth’, said Javier Cercas, as Juan Gabriel Vásquez nodded, telling the sold-out crowd at the Wheeler Centre last Wednesday that the task of the novelist is to arrive at truth through fiction. Guests of the Adelaide Writers’ Week and the Instituto … Read more
Notes from
Notes from … Santiago
In the latest instalment of our ‘Notes from … ’ travel series, Samuel Rutter returns to Santiago, Chile. 1. Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport, Pudahuel, Santiago. 05:15 It’s cold. It’s darker than a wolf’s mouth, as they say in Chile, and I can’t even see the Andes … Read more
Interviews
César Aira: ‘Writing is my freedom, where I receive orders from no one, not even from myself’
Argentina’s César Aira has written and published over seventy novels (though no one seems certain how many there actually are), few of them longer than a hundred pages. He was first introduced to Anglophone readers in 1996, and five of his works are now available in English. … Read more
