May 18
Our Voices
The Spanish Department at Carleton College invites you to attend a lecture by the prominent Spanish writer Belén Gopegui. The session will be conducted in Spanish with English interpretation. Real time translation to English will be available with the push of a button on Zoom for all sessions. If you want to attend, you need to register using the link. Once you register, you will receive a zoom ID.
“We live in such dark times that it is inevitable to wonder if it makes sense to keep singing, writing, reading. In this lecture I will argue that precisely the darkness of the times makes it more necessary - although there will be times when it is not more urgent - to understand what is happening to us through fiction, thus deciphering the motives and procedures of barbarism, and find a way to encourage convictions that do not contribute to unnecessary suffering, chaos, and desolation.”