The Centro de Estudios Literarios Iberoamericanos Mario Benedetti (CeMaB) at the University of Alicante will host a talk on the works of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, presented by Robin Lefère, a professor from the Free University of Brussels. The event is scheduled for Wednesday, 28 October at 17:30.
Entitled 'Libro delle visioni and Libro de las ruinas: comparative thematic anthologies of Borges-Ricci', the talk will be introduced by José Carlos Rovira, emeritus professor at the University of Alicante. Attendees can participate in person or follow the event live via the CeMaB's video streaming channel.
This lecture is part of a series of activities commemorating the 40th anniversary of Borges's passing. In addition to Lefère's talk, CeMaB has organised a dialogue titled 'In the name of the Father: Borges in the light of El Caudillo', which will take place on 9 November at 10:00. This session will feature contributions from Vicente Cervera Salinas from the University of Murcia and Claudio Pérez Míguez, director of the Museo del Escritor, and will be presented by Remedios Mataix Azuar, a professor at the University of Alicante.
Robin Lefère is a professor of Hispanic literatures at the Free University of Brussels. He completed his doctoral studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, focusing on the works of Jorge Luis Borges. Lefère is also an expert on various other Latin American authors, particularly from the 20th century, and has published extensively on Spanish and Latin American cinema, including monographs such as 'Carlos Saura: una trayectoria ejemplar' (Visor, 2011) and 'Nuevas perspectivas sobre la transnacionalidad del cine hispánico' (Rodopi, 2016). His significant works also include 'La novela histórica: (re)definición, caracterización, tipología' (Visor, 2013) and co-editing 'Cuaderno de América sin nombre. Perspectivas sobre el futuro de la narrativa hispánica: ensayos y testimonios'. Since 2023, he has been a corresponding member of the Academia Argentina de Letras.
