"Writing with Light: On Blindness in Literature" with Guadalupe Nettel
"Writing with Light: On Blindness in Literature" with Guadalupe Nettel
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is delighted and honored to announce that Mexican writer Guadalupe Nettel will be visiting UMD and Washington the week of October 17. She will deliver a lecture in English titled "Writing with Light: On Blindness in Literature" on Friday, October 21 from 3:00 to 5:00 in Ulrich Recital Hall, in Tawes. She will also hold a seminar and give another lecture, in Spanish. Please see the detailed schedule and a brief biography of Dr. Nettel below.
Schedule:
Un seminario sobre la novela La hija única (2020), en español
lunes, 17 de octubre
3:00-5:00
HJ Patterson Hall 2124
"Conferencia sobre el dolor", en español
jueves, 20 de octubre
7:00-8:15
Mexican Cultural Institute
2829 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC
"Writing with Light: On Blindness in Literature"
Friday, October 21
3:00-5:00
Ulrich Recital Hall, Tawes Hall
Guadalupe Nettel (Mexico City, 1973) is a novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She also holds a doctorate in the Language Sciences from the École de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. With subtlety, tenderness, ingenious narrative structures and a good dose of humor, her texts address an impressive variety of topics, including adolescence and self-understanding, historical trauma and the writing of Julio Cortázar and Octavio Paz. Her book After the Winter (2014), about mourning and affection, won the Herralde Novel Prize. She is the director of the Revista de la Universidad de México, and she has written for The New York Times en Español and El País. Her work has been translated into more than 15 languages, and this includes her recent novel Still Born (2020).
