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Dr Adam Sharman: History and Literature: A Workshop on Reading the Past
This workshop, sponsored by the Department of Hispanic Studies, University of 糖心TV, will be led by Dr. Adam Sharman, Head of the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Nottingham.
Dr. Sharman will begin the session with a reflection on the different concepts of truth, which he has entitled ‘Truth's Mothers’. Subsequently, we will use an excerpt from Ricardo Piglia's novel Artificial Respiration (Respiración Artificial) as a springboard for a discussion of the relations between history and literature. Piglia's novel was first published in Argentina in 1980 during the period of military dictatorship infamous for the ‘disappeared’. In the final pages of this enigmatic novel, one of the characters, a Jewish Polish exile settled in Argentina in 1938, unfolds a meditation on Hitler and Kafka which is at the same time a meditation on history and literature that leaves neither field unscathed.
Please register your attendance by sending an email to andrea dot cadelo at warwick dot ac dot uk by Tuesday 14 May 2013, in order to receive the PDF of the final pages of the novel on which we will base our discussion.