Podcasts

Soldiers of Salamis:

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

1. Inventing Romance Studies
2. Mad Toy: Roberto Arlt on Picaresque Betrayal and Rebirth
3. Nadja: André Breton’s Flirtation with Madness
4. The Shrouded Woman: María Luisa Bombal and Peripheral Modernism
5. Agostino: Alberto Moravia and the Return of the Real
6. Nada: Carmen Laforet on Narrative, Memory, and History
7. Black Shack Alley: Joseph Zobel, Development, and Writing
8. Deep Rivers: José María Arguedas on Conflict and Convergence Without End
9. The Time of the Doves: Mercè Rodoreda on Destitution and Bricolage
10. The Hour of the Star: Clarice Lispector’s Struggle with Writing and Ethics
11. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler: Italo Calvino and the Ends of Discourse
12. The Lover: Marguerite Duras Returns to the Threshold
13. The Trenchcoat: Norman Manea on Interpretation and Complicity
14. Money to Burn: Ricardo Piglia on Genre, Truth, and Money
15. The Book of Chameleons: José Eduardo Agualusa on Duplicity, Tribute, and Revenge
16. Death with Interruptions: José Saramago on Necropolitics and Resurrection
17. Faces in the Crowd: Valeria Luiselli’s Haunted Times and Places
18. My Brilliant Friend: Elena Ferrante on Class, Capital, and Language
19. Conclusion: A World of Difference