The Instituto Cervantes in Madrid, in collaboration with the publishing house Páginas de Espuma, will host a discussion with Clara Obligado and Agustín Comotto about their work, Exile, on Thursday, April 9th at 7:00 PM. Journalist Xavi Ayén will speak with the authors. Actress Victoria Siedlecki will read excerpts from the book. This is an in-person event with limited seating. Reservations are recommended through Eventbrite.
The event will be introduced by Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez, Literature and Thought Specialist at the Instituto Cervantes, and Juan Casamayor, editor at Páginas de Espuma.
These pages address emigration, refuge and diaspora, exile and insile, exodus and banishment. Their presence is constant in our societies, but accounts of these experiences are often absent.
Clara Obligado took decades to speak about being a foreigner and to tell the stories of these lives lived in the open. Fifty years have passed since the civic-military coup in Argentina, the same number of years that have passed since the author left her country and arrived in Spain.
Exile unfolds a multifaceted narrative, where ghosts, survivors, and the forgotten find their voice and become protagonists. The story is enriched by Agustín Comotto’s illustrations, and to let oneself be carried away by them is to embark on a journey and extend a hand to those who wander between shores, hemispheres, and lives.
Ilustrator: Agustín Comotto
Pages: 96
Publisher: Páginas de Espuma Sl
Binding: Soft cover
ISBN: 9788483933862
RPP: 19 euros