Literature may speak about fictions but it always speaks with its own  reality. It may be an invention but it mostly involves a dialogue with  the present. Literature is constantly thinking of reality, commenting on  it, reflecting it in some way. That is why literature, and culture in  general, becomes the preferred object of politics when politics does not  want to have this kind of testimony of its own deeds. When official  politics does not approve of this dialogue which might be critical,  reality must be openly resisted. It is an act of an activity  –literature– that not necessarily wants to, but sometimes has to, resist  politically. This is the time for Argentinian writers to do this: to  speak out. And that is why we are here today.

Speakers: 

Mariana Dimópoulos

Carlos Gamerro

Ariel Magnus

María Negroni