Next Monday, September 30 at 7 pm, Casa América opens the cycle La vorágine in its Simón Bolívar room with the lecture To let us swallow the jungle: how to read ‘La vorágine’ one hundred years later, by Juan Gabriel Vásquez.
One hundred years after its publication, La vorágine takes the place of a classic in the Latin American novel. It’s right: the novel by José Eustasio Rivera is a pioneer of many things, and opened paths through which the great works of the twentieth century passed. But the consecration runs the risk of embalming the novel, or that one forgets the profound novelty it represented at the time.
Where did this unpredictable and revolutionary novel come from? How to read it today to keep it alive, so that it continues to tell the reader everything it has to say? Juan Gabriel Vásquez examines the origins of La vorágine in the context of its author, the political world and the literary tradition of Latin America.
León de la Torre Krais, general director of Casa de América, and Eduardo Avila Navarrete, ambassador of Colombia will introduce the event. The conference will be presented and moderated by the poet María Gómez Lara.
