Australian National
Centre for Latin American Studies (ANCLAS - ANU)
2016 is the 30th anniversary of the death of J L Borges,
arguably Argentina’s greatest writer and universally acclaimed as one of the
most influential literary figures of the 20th century.
This public lecture will celebrate Borges’ passion for
popular culture and everyday life; his intimate portraits of Buenos Aires
neighbourhood streets, city outskirts, tango, truco, criollo culture and
compadritos. Borges was endlessly fascinated with Buenos Aires and conjured up
an urban landscape populated with colourful characters; pimps, hooligans and
gangsters. He describes adobe walls and knives, gauchos, card games and
resentment.
Through a unique personal vernacular and creation of
evocative urban mythology, Borges shaped Buenos Aires and Buenos Aires shaped
him. Lost in the “voluntary dream called artistic creation”, he understood how
he could be both local and universal at the same time.
Faye Bendrups is an academic, composer and
performance-maker. She has been a guest lecturer at the University of London,
the University of Barcelona, and first Australian recipient of the Paul Sacher
Stiftung Award at the University of Basel. She has written over 25 major
theatre works including the verbatim operas Sindromtango: una ópera grotesca
and Service Station: Straying the Australian Landscape. Her original works have
been commissioned by the MTC, QTC, Playbox Theatre, Drama Project Trust,
fortyfivedownstairs, and others.
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