Genres: Literary readings / Unit: Collections / Language: Spanish - TAMU

Date:: 2005
Main contributors:: Bryce Echenique, Alfredo, 1939-
Summary:: Esteban Peicovich interviews the Peruvian writer, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, in Madrid, Spain in 2005. Bryce Echenique has published his latest book, Permiso para vivir, an autobiography. He talks about his family, his education in law, his aspirations to be a soccer player and his life as a writer in France. He describes his writing styles and how he deals with the reality in his stories. His short stories and novels include La felicidad ja ja, Huerto cerrado, Un mundo para Julius, Tantas veces Pedro, La vida exagerada de Martín Romaña, La àltima mudanza de Felipe Carrillo, Dos señoras conversan, El hombre que hablaba de Octavia de Cádiz, Croinicas personales and Permiso para vivir (antimemorias). During the interview Bryce Echenique reads a chapter from his latest book and a short story from his first book.

Date:: 199X
Main contributors:: Biagioni, Amelia
Summary:: Biagioni reads some of her poems and talks about her poetry, prizes won in poetry contests, and hunting as a recurring theme in her poems. She also talks about the publication histories of her books, her beginnings as a poet, and some of the writers who have influenced her.

Date:: 199X
Main contributors:: Bayley, E. (Edgar), 1919-
Summary:: Continuation of an interview with Argentinian poet Edgar Bayley. He talks about the origin of his name, his family and childhood memories, and some of the poets who influenced his life. He also talks about discusses poetry in general and the process behind writing poems. He also reads several of his poems.

Date:: 199X
Main contributors:: Barreto, Igor, 1952-
Summary:: Venezuelan poet Igor Barreto talks about his book, Soy el muchacho más hermoso de esta ciudad. He describes his how he aims as a poet to portray natural landscapes in a more realistic, less romantic way. He also describes the six years he spent in Bucarest, Romania, studying cinematography and drama, where he met Marin Sorescu, a Romanian poet. Throughout the interview, Barreto reads poems from his various books.

Date:: 199X
Main contributors:: Barreto, Igor, 1952-
Summary:: The end of an interview with Venezuelan poet Igor Barreto. He talks about the six years he spent as a cinematography student in Romania and about his meeting with Martin Sorescu, a Romanian poet who inspired the name of his book, Soy el muchacho más hermoso de esta ciudad. He also discusses Venezuelan poetry and reads poems from his various books.

Date:: 1993
Main contributors:: Bogdaschevski, Irina
Summary:: Esteban Peicovich and Irina Bogdachevsky continue their interview in La Plata. They talk about the great Russian poets including Pushkin, Lermontov, Fet, Koltsov, Solovyov, Bely, Blok, Mayakovsky, Esenin, Tsvetaeva, Okudzhava, Akhmatova, Akhmadulina, Khlebnikov, Pasternak, Tarkowski, Brodsky and Nabokov, and the different movements they represented. Some of the movements discussed are the Russian symbolism, futuristic and acmeism movements. During the interview Bogdachevsky reads poems she translated from Russian to Spanish and vice versa.

Date:: 1992
Main contributors:: Blaisten, Isidoro, 1933-2004
Summary:: During his interview with Esteban Peicovich, Isidoro Blaisten talks about what a poet is, his literary works, his workshops on literary writing, his beginnings as a writer and writers who influenced his works. Blaisten mainly focuses on his latest book, Cuando éramos felices, which he describes as a combination of autobiography, short stories and views on literature in Argentina. Some of his short stories were inspired by the many different jobs he had as graphic novelist, publishing writer, journalist, photographer and bookseller. Throughout the interview, Blaisten reads several of his short stories and poems.

Date:: 1992
Main contributors:: Boccanera, Jorge A.
Summary:: During his interview with Esteban Peicovich, Jorge Boccanera talks about his poems, his birthplace (Bahía Blanca, Argentina), his beginnings as a writer, Luis Cardoza y Aragon (a Guatemalan writer that influenced his works), radio programs with Litto Nebia and Humberto Constantini, his poems as lyrics for famous Argentine singers and his life in Costa Rica. The last part of the interview is a discussion of Boccanera's book in progress about Juan Gelman and Gelman's literary works, his personality and other aspects of Gelman's life. Also during the interview poems are read by both Peicovich and Boccanera.

Date:: 2003
Main contributors:: Bosco, María Angélica
Summary:: During her interview with Esteban Peicovich at her Buenos Aires home, María Angélica Bosco talks about her beginnings as a writer, her family, her friends (Argentine writers, Silvina Bullrich, Martha Lynch and Silvia Poletti), famous authors who influenced her (Graham Greene and G.K. Chesterton), and the themes of her literary works. Five of her books were detective stories, but she was most interested in social issues, like the situation of women in the Argentine middle class of the 1950s. Her books include La muerte baja en el ascensor, La muerte soborna a Pandora, La trampa, El comedor de diario, Doinde está el cordero?, La Negra Vélez y su ángel, Historia privada, Cartas de mujeres, Retorno a "La Ilusioin", En la estela de un secuestro, Muerte en la costa del río, En la piel del otro, La muerte vino de afuera, El soitano, Las burlas del porvenir, and Tres historias de mujeres. Her published books also include essays like Borges y los otros and Carta abierta a Judas. Bosco wrote several scripts for a detective series called Divisioin Homicidios, from 1977 to 1979. She received several awards and was named woman of the year in 1987. Bosco talks about her autobiography, Memoria de las casas, her diaries, her everyday life at her 91 years, her friendship with J.L. Borges and Julio Cortazar's correspondence with her. The interview ends with Bosco reading one of her stories, Un lunes diferente.

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