Upcoming Events at Instituto Cervantes of Chicago
Mon Mar 13, 6:00 PM - Mon Mar 13, 8:00 PM
Instituto Cervantes of Chicago
31 W. Ohio St., Chicago, IL 60654
Community: River North
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Instituto Cervantes of Chicago
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FREE and open to the public but reservations are required.
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In Spanish with English translation available.
La Boca de la literatura
A recurrent theme in traditional children’s literature is fear, especially the most painful of fears: the fear of abandonment. From the memory of his first fear, writer Manuel Rivas travels on search of the primordial mouth of literature to find it in the life and language of ordinary people. A surprising trip: the mouth of the mother, who worked as a milkmaid, was not very different from that of the surrealist avant-garde. And the father, a mason and musician, had a mouth with much in common with Samuel Beckett. The place where the mouth of literature opens is the eccentric place: the life of words that do not want to dominate, that fall and rise in an incessant ecological struggle against the corrosion and subtraction of meaning.
Manuel Rivas Barrós
Manuel Rivas Barrós, writer and journalist, was born in the Monte Alto district of Coruña (October 24, 1957). He studied at the Instituto Coruñés de Monelos, where he began to work at Ideal Gallego, and continued his studies at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He was co-founder of the magazines Teima, Man Común and Luzes de Galicia. Among other works, he wrote "Que me queres amor?" (National Prize for Narrative), "O lapis do carpinteiro" (novel translated into 32 languages) and "Os arden mal" (Galician and Spanish Critics Prize).
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In Spanish with English translation available.
La Boca de la literatura
A recurrent theme in traditional children’s literature is fear, especially the most painful of fears: the fear of abandonment. From the memory of his first fear, writer Manuel Rivas travels on search of the primordial mouth of literature to find it in the life and language of ordinary people. A surprising trip: the mouth of the mother, who worked as a milkmaid, was not very different from that of the surrealist avant-garde. And the father, a mason and musician, had a mouth with much in common with Samuel Beckett. The place where the mouth of literature opens is the eccentric place: the life of words that do not want to dominate, that fall and rise in an incessant ecological struggle against the corrosion and subtraction of meaning.
Manuel Rivas Barrós
Manuel Rivas Barrós, writer and journalist, was born in the Monte Alto district of Coruña (October 24, 1957). He studied at the Instituto Coruñés de Monelos, where he began to work at Ideal Gallego, and continued his studies at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He was co-founder of the magazines Teima, Man Común and Luzes de Galicia. Among other works, he wrote "Que me queres amor?" (National Prize for Narrative), "O lapis do carpinteiro" (novel translated into 32 languages) and "Os arden mal" (Galician and Spanish Critics Prize).
