Conference & Closing: Tribute to Carlos Fuentes, with Julio Ortega

Monday, December 10, 2012 @ 6:00pm

Event Info

Admission

FREE

Venue

Instituto Cervantes of Chicago

31 West Ohio Street

Chicago,

60654

Presenter

Instituto Cervantes of Chicago
312-335-1996

Physical borders, as well as mental and metaphorical barriers, abound in Carlos Fuentes’ work as much as in his intellectual biography. His work is an art of breaking borders, but also a critique of the proliferation of new limits and, not infrequently, a celebration of the undoing of frontiers.

Fuentes writes that the border between the US and Mexico is “a scar." But it is also a crossroads, a painful place, and a shared destiny. Fuentes’work offers a border-crossing map, open and creative, where literature is the permanent construction of an open space in language and dialogue.

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