Power of the Book: Clandestine Libraries in Cuba & Infinite Ones in Borges’s Work
<p>This conversation with Liduam Pong is primarily based on the essay she wrote for the first volume of <em>The Funambulist Papers</em> (Punctum Books, 2013). She was describing in it her experience growing up in Cuba where some books were considered as subversive and thus forbidden. This interdiction was followed by the creation of informal clandestine libraries for people to access these books. We therefore speak about the political power a book contains within a simple object, and attempt to understand this power through indirect political means, through the reading of Jorge Luis Borges’s literature and his quest of the infinite.</p>
Host: Léopold Lambert
Guests: Liduam Pong
Part of: The Funambulist Podcast