These are the slides used in the preparation of the lecture videos. NB often the videos have more images than are contained in the slides and/or there are other minor differences, as the slides were adjusted during video editing.
- Inventing Romance Studies
- “Combray”: Marcel Proust and the Modernist Novel
- Mad Toy: Roberto Arlt on Picaresque Betrayal and Rebirth
- Paris Peasant: Louis Aragon on Everyday Time
- Nadja: André Breton’s Flirtation with Madness
- The Shrouded Woman: María Luisa Bombal and Peripheral Modernism
- Agostino: Alberto Moravia and the Return of the Real
- Nada: Carmen Laforet on Narrative, Memory, and Trauma
- Black Shack Alley: Joseph Zobel, Development, and Writing
- Bonjour Tristesse: Françoise Sagan on Translation and Affect
- Deep Rivers: José María Arguedas on Conflict and Convergence Without End
- The Time of the Doves: Mercè Rodoreda on Destitution and Bricolage
- The Passion According to G. H.: Clarice Lispector on Difficult Passions
- W, or the Memory of Childhood: Georges Perec, Postmodernism, and Life Writing
- If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler: Italo Calvino and the Ends of Discourse
- The Lover: Marguerite Duras Returns to the Threshold
- The Old Gringo: Carlos Fuentes, Repetition, and History
- The Trenchcoat: Norman Manea on Interpretation and Complicity
- Amulet: Roberto Bolaño and the History of the Future
- Money to Burn: Ricardo Piglia on Genre, Truth, and Money
- Soldiers of Salamis: Javier Cercas and the Truth of Betrayal
- The Book of Chameleons: José Eduardo Agualusa on Duplicity, Tribute, and Revenge
- Death with Interruptions: José Saramago on Necropolitics and Resurrection
- Faces in the Crowd: Valeria Luiselli’s Haunted Times and Places
- My Brilliant Friend: Elena Ferrante on Class, Capital, and Language
- The Society of Reluctant Dreamers: José Eduardo Agualusa and National Allegory
- A World of Difference
