Podcasts

Here are audio-only versions of the lectures, available as a podcast from Spotify.

1. Inventing Romance Studies
2. “Combray”: Marcel Proust and the Modernist Novel
3. Paris Peasant: Louis Aragon on Everyday Time
4. Mad Toy: Roberto Arlt on Picaresque Betrayal and Rebirth
5. Nadja: André Breton’s Flirtation with Madness
6. The Shrouded Woman: María Luisa Bombal and Peripheral Modernism
7. Agostino: Alberto Moravia and the Return of the Real
8. Nada: Carmen Laforet on Narrative, Memory, and History
9. Black Shack Alley: Joseph Zobel, Development, and Writing
10. Bonjour Tristesse: Françoise Sagan on Translation and Affect
11. Deep Rivers: José María Arguedas on Conflict and Convergence Without End
12. The Time of the Doves: Mercè Rodoreda on Destitution and Bricolage
13. The Hour of the Star: Clarice Lispector’s Struggle with Writing and Ethics
14. W, or the Memory of Childhood: Georges Perec, Postmodernism, and Life Writing
15. The Hour of the Star: Clarice Lispector’s Struggle with Writing and Ethics
16. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler: Italo Calvino and the Ends of Discourse
17. The Lover: Marguerite Duras Returns to the Threshold
18. The Old Gringo: Carlos Fuentes, Repetition, and History
19. The Trenchcoat: Norman Manea on Interpretation and Complicity
20. Money to Burn: Ricardo Piglia on Genre, Truth, and Money
21. Amulet: Roberto Bolaño and the History of the Future
22. Soldiers of Salamis: Javier Cercas on the Truth of Betrayal
23. The Book of Chameleons: José Eduardo Agualusa on Duplicity, Tribute, and Revenge
24. Death with Interruptions: José Saramago on Necropolitics and Resurrection
25. My Brilliant Friend: Elena Ferrante on Class, Capital, and Language
26. Faces in the Crowd: Valeria Luiselli’s Haunted Times and Places
27. The Society of Reluctant Dreamers: José Eduardo Agualusa and National Allegory
30. Conclusion: A World of Difference

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