Transcripts

The entire series of (revised) lectures, somewhat in the format of a book, is here: Romance Studies: Readings in Excess and Betrayal, from Modernism to the Present. Twenty-Eight Lectures, with Drinks Pairings.

  1. Introduction: 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 Trauma
  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 Passion According to G. H.: Clarice Lispector on Difficult Passions
  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. Faces in the Crowd: Valeria Luiselli’s Haunted Times and Places
  26. My Brilliant Friend: Elena Ferrante on Class, Capital, and Language
  27. The Society of Reluctant Dreamers: José Eduardo Agualusa and National Allegory
  28. The Impatient: Djaïli Amadou Amal on Tiredness and Waiting
  29. Love Me Tender: Constance Debré on Minimalism and Excess
  30. Conclusion: A World of Difference