La invención de todas las cosas – Jorge Volpi

Saturday March 15 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Event Description

Mexican writer Jorge Volpi presents his book The Invention of All Things. A History of Fiction in a conversation with Marie Moébius in the Main Patio of La Biblioteca. Jorge Volpi (Mexico, 1968) is the author of fifteen novels, including Despite the Dark Silence (1993); the "20th Century Trilogy", consisting of In Search of Klingsor (Library Breve Prize, 1999), The End of Madness (2003) and Time of Ashes (2006); The Weaver of Shadows (2011; Planeta-Casamérica Ibero-American Narrative Prize); Dark Dark Forest (2010); Memorial of Deception (2013); The Chosen Ones (2014); A Crime Novel (2018; Alfaguara Novel Prize), from which the Netflix series of the same name was made, and Parts of War (2022).
In 2008 he received the José Donoso Prize for his entire body of work and the Medal of the Order of Isabella the Catholic of Spain. He is a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France. His books have been translated into thirty languages.
The Invention of All Things: A History of Fiction
With a story that spans from the Big Bang to today, The Invention of All Things shows us that human beings are what we tell ourselves. Fictions that guarantee cooperation between individuals and groups gave life to religions and myths; those that have to do with territorial, racial or cultural boundaries have caused or justified invasions, wars and massacres. There are others that determine our personal or civic relationships; magic and astrology are certainly fictions, but so are science, philosophy, art, literature, music, theatre, television, social networks… and even politics or love.
This is, in short, a story about how we construct and reconstruct reality on a daily basis through imagination. We spend our lives among fictions, Volpi tells us, without even realizing that we are one of them too.
«A journey to the origins of the amazing human ability to weave stories and, above all, the insatiable thirst to hear them.»
Irene Vallejo