Regards hispano-américains sur Bruxelles. La ville d’après Carpentier, Molina et Mondragón
(2016) Brussel schrijven - Ecrire Bruxelles. Brussel — ISBN: [9789057184857], p. 169-179, published
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- (en) One city, Brussels, and three Spanish-American writers rebuilding a Brussels on their own with a common and shared element: Brussels’s colors under rainy skies. Alejo Carpentier (Cuban, born in Switzerland, 1904), novelist, journalist, diplomat and musicologist creates a utopian space in his chronic. Carpentier recognizes that Brussels (as long as Paris), has also a word in gastronomy, and he will use food as a way to understand the people who produces it. Silvia Molina (Mexico, 1949) on her novel: "En silencio la lluvia", the protagonist’s story will be tied to the beguine’s Catherine de Louvain story. Her hesitation between divine and human love will confront the protagonist with her own dilemma. Thus, the discovery of Brussels also implies her own discovery. Juan Carlos Mondragón (Montevideo, 1951), offers in his novel "Bruxelles piano-bar" the story of a reporter who invents a city (Brussels), sort of imaginary exile as refuge from events related to the dictatorship and post-dictatorship period.
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Castilleja, D. (2016). Regards hispano-américains sur Bruxelles. La ville d’après Carpentier, Molina et Mondragón. In Daniel Acke, Elizabeth Bekers (ed.), Brussel schrijven - Ecrire Bruxelles. Brussel (p. p. 169-179). ASP/VUBPRESS. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/245449