#   Mariano Siskind on "The Novel After the End of the Novel: Borges' Non-Novels and the Practice of Not-Writing" 

 



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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 29, 2025** 

 06:00PM - 07:30PM EDT 

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 **Barker Center, Room 133**  



 

 



 

## [NOVEL THEORY](/novel-theory)

## SPEAKER: Mariano Siskind, Harvard University

Notably, Jorge Luis Borges never wrote a novel, but he crafted the plots of the novels he decided not to write. This presentation will consider Borges' decision to 'not-write' novels, alongside the 'non-novels' he imagined in his fiction in the context of his understanding of literature as a readerly event, and of his awareness of the historical crisis of the novel-form.

### About the Speaker

Mariano Siskind is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of *Cosmopolitan Desires. Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America*, *Rumo a um cosmopolitismo da perda. Ensaio sobre o fim do mundo*, and *The Modernist Songbook. Standards y variaciones sobre formas muertas*. He has edited Homi Bhabha's *Nuevas minorías, nuevos derechos*, and has co-edited with Sylvia Molloy *Poéticas de la distancia. Adentro y afuera de la literatura argentina* (2006); with Gesine Müller, *World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality: Beyond, Against, Post, Otherwise*; and with Guillermina De Ferrari, *The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literature and Culture.* In 2025 he will publish the collection of essays, *Dislocaciones y fin de eso que ya no es mundo*, and is working on a new book, tentatively titled *About the End of the World: The Demise of Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Culture*.

If you have any questions, please contact Deidre Lynch at <deidrelynch@fas.harvard.edu> or Yoon Sun Lee at <ylee@wellesley.edu>.



 

 

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