Art & Culture
Roberto Arlt 1/4/2010 al 3/5/2010
On April of 2010, the Foro del Sur Foundation gave a course on Roberto Arlt. The cycle aimed to offer Arlt's vision of the latent violence in Argentine society and the brutal impact of immigration on the course of the nation. Arlt as an introducer of the "Mal de Vivre" in the Argentine cultural scene and as precursor of existentialism, before Sartre.
LECTURER
Marcela Solá is a writer and translator who studied philosophy at the Catholic University of Argentina. She has published a novel, El silencio de Kind (1999, finalist for the 1997 Planeta Prize); a book of poems, Acta de defunción (1994, first prize in the II Arcane Poetry Contest); three books of stories: Los condenados visten de blanco (1971), Mis propios ojos no dan abasto (1976) and Manual de situaciones imposibles (1990), all at the Carlos Lohlé publishing house. Collaborative works: "Una espeleología de la luz", in Dessin Dunsmore Peinture (Paris/Las Palmas, Mafasca, 1984), "Virginia Wolf: Una estética del agua", in the collective volume coordinated by Marta López Gil, Mujeres fuera de quicio (2000, Adriana Hidalgo Editora), “La novelización del tiempo”, in the collective volume edited by Gwendolyn Díaz, Luisa Valenzuela sin máscara (2002, Feminaria Editora). In Lumen, she was the compiler of two works: Qué quieren las mujeres (2003) and Mujeres ante la crisis (2006). In 1984, she obtained a Fulbright scholarship to participate in the International Writers Workshop, in Iowa, United States.
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