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"Clusters of grapes, snow, tobacco..."

Reinaldo Laddaga

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Event Date: Friday, March 23, 2001
Location: Slought Foundation at University of Pennsylvania
Conference on Osvaldo Romberg Series | Organized by Aaron Levy, Jean-MIchel Rabaté

Caption: Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003



Reinaldo Laddaga received his Ph.D. from New York University in 1999. Assistant Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania, he specializes in contemporary Latin American literature and critical theory. He is the author of Literaturas indigentes y placeres bajos (Beatriz Viterbo, 2000), a study of the links between literature and ethics in the works of Felisberto Hernández, Virgilio Piñera, and Juan Rodofo Wilcock;La euforia de Baltasar Brum (Tusquets, 1999), a novel; and numerous articles on literature, art and film. He is currently working on a book on recent Latin American literature and art.

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