Pablo Brescia
Pablo Brescia is professor at the University of South Florida (Tampa), where he teaches courses on 20th and 21st century Latin American literature, culture and film. He is the author of Borges. Cinco especulaciones (2015) and Modelos y prácticas en el cuento hispanoamericano: Arreola, Borges, Cortázar (2011), and the editor of six other academic books on McOndo and the Crack generations, Cortázar, Mexican flash fiction, the Latin American short story sequence, Borges, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. He has published three books of short stories: La derrota de lo real/The Defeat of the Real (USA/Mexico, 2017), Fuera de Lugar/Out of Place (Peru, 2012/Mexico, 2013) and La apariencia de las cosas/The Appearance of Things (México, 1997), and a book of hybrid texts No hay tiempo para la poesía/No Time for Poetry (Buenos Aires, 2011), with the pen name Harry Bimer.
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Mueren millares. La peste se da de dos formas: pulmonar, con fiebre y sangre; bubónica, con abcesos y furúnculos. Es 1348 y Boccaccio escribe el Decamerón. En el prólogo, dice: “Hay que compa... -
Literature can be anachronistic and prophetic at once. -
I first came across Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez (Buenos Aires, 1973) in La joven guardia [The young guard], an anthology published in Buenos Aires in 2005 that brought together writers bo... -
I have a good memory of the first time I came face to face with a story by the Argentine writer Samanta Schweblin (Buenos Aires, 1978). It was in the anthology La joven guardia [The young guard... -
In Raymond Carver’s first short story collection, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, from 1976, there is a story called “Neighbors.” In it, a couple, Bill and Arlene, are left to look after a c... -
No voy a ningún lado con un sombrero que dice “escritor”; al contrario, voy con una actitud humilde de tratar de aprender del público y preguntarles qué leen ellos y hablar un poco de lo que me parece...
