The Dominican poet and essayist José Mármol is in India, invited by the International Center of India (IIC) and the Instituto Cervantes in New Delhi.
The author of God ex Machina visits the country within the framework of the international conference organized by the IIC called “Connected Stories: Shared Present. Cross cultural experiences between Latin America, the Caribbean and India”, which takes place from February 20 to 22, with the participation of writers and intellectuals from different countries.
Mármol is part of the panel that will have the theme “Sailing through history: a survey of contacts between India and the Caribbean” which, under the moderation of the Ambassador of the Dominican Republic in India, David Puig, will include panelists from Guyana, Jamaica, India and the Dominican Republic.
José Mármol will intervene during today’s session on the 21st, with a work entitled “Magical realism, the marvelous real and poetry in the Hispanic Caribbean: a dialogical relationship”, whose central argument rests on the preponderant presence of poetic language in Spanish-American literature. and Caribbean, especially in the novel, during the first half of the 20th century, as well as at the height of the boom, in the 1960s and 1970s.
It will refer to important poetic movements of the first half of the 20th century in Latin America and the Caribbean, which developed in an influential dialogue with narrative language and revolutionized literature and the publishing world.
Mármol will highlight Pedro Henríquez Ureña’s courageous public defense of the great Hindu writer Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, who, invited by Victoria Ocampo and Sur magazine, was a victim of sarcasm by the Argentine intelligentsia in 1924.
On the 23rd, the Casa de América Prize for American Poetry 2012 will hold a dialogue reading of his poetry at the Instituto Cervantes in New Delhi, accompanied by the prominent Hindu poet Subhro Bandopadhyay.
