Conferencia sobre la lluvia
| Title | Conferencia sobre la lluvia |
|---|---|
| Author | Villoro, Juan |
| Publisher | Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. |
| Imprint | Almadia |
| ISBN | 9786078764822 |
| Edition number | 2 |
| Publication year | 2022 |
| Pages | 64 |
| Format | Printed |
| THEMA | Fiction and Related items |
| Synopsis | Lecture on the Rain deals with a theatrical situation par excellence: public speaking. A lecturer loses his notes and his nervousness leads him to say unexpected things. The topic of the talk is the relationship between rain and love poetry. In the vortex of improvisation, the protagonist talks about himself but does not abandon his original purpose; the poets who have changed the climate with their verses come to mind. Two forms of discourse are fascinatingly mixed: the lecture and the confession. Starring a librarian, this monologue written by Juan Villoro is a deep and often ironic reflection on the life of books and the emotions they arouse. A library is a collection of loves, rejections, suspicions and nostalgia, because of what its copies say, but also because of the way they have been read. Lecture on the Rain has a final surprise in store: the recipient of the talk. If a book depends on the reader, a lecture depends on the audience. The voice makes sense if someone hears it and, mysteriously, it also defines who hears it. To listen is to be interpreted. A lecturer speaks on stage. He has lost his papers and his words rush. Meanwhile, a stealthy presence listens to him with the bewilderment caused by the falling rain. |
| foreign rights contact | Elizabet Osorio Osorio |
| eosorio@corporativoventura.mx |
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