An evening with Alejandro Zambra: 'Childish Literature (Vadertaal)'

Rotterdamsch Leeskabinet
With her back to the camera, a young woman ascends the stairs in the Leeskabinet alcove, approaching tall and royally filled bookshelves.

Event in collaboration with Frontaal, Meridiaan Publishers, v/h Van Gennep bookstore and the Batavierhuis 

Interview by Berrie Vugts

With a performance by poet Iduna Paalman

Presenting Chilean author Alejandro Zambra’s latest: Childish Literature (Vadertaal, Meridiaan Publishers, 2024). Written in a ‘state of attachment’, the author as newly minted father gives us a chronicle of fatherhood, a letter to a child and a work of fiction. 

Date
Friday 14 Jun 2024, 19:30 - 20:45
Type
General
Spoken Language
English
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Alejandro Zambra is considered one of the best Chilean writers of the current generation and one of the most important representatives of the new Latin Boom. His work has been translated around the world and awarded international prizes.

Shifting from moving dispatches from his son’s first year of existence, to a treatise on ‘football sadness’, to a psychedelic narrative where a man tries, mid-magic mushroom trip, to re-learn the subtle art of crawling, this latest work from Alejandro Zambra shows how children shield adults from despondency, self-absorption and the tyrannies of chronological time. Childish Literature is the latest, virtuosic addition to the oeuvre of one of the most exciting Latin American writers in recent decades.

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Location: Batavierhuis, Pieter de Hoochweg 108, Rotterdam

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