Bécquer Seguín (Johns Hopkins U.) on his book “The Op. Ed Novel. A Literary History of Post-Franco Spain”

Join us April 15, 5pm in HQ 134 to welcome Bécquer Seguín (Johns Hopkins U.) to our department, where he will be presenting his brand new book, The Op. Ed Novel. A Literary History of Post-Franco Spain. Our very own Sofía Fernández González will serve as respondent. Here’s a brief description of the project to entice you:

 

Public intellectuals come in many different stripes, but most of them gain a following at least in part from their writing, whether in the form of magazine articles, newspaper columns, or full-length nonfiction. A few—James Baldwin and Joan Didion are celebrated examples—start out as novelists before turning to the rough-and-tumble of current affairs. In The Op-Ed Novel, Bécquer Seguín undertakes the first book-length study of how contemporary literature is shaped by opinion journalism, focusing on fiction writers who took to the papers in post-Franco Spain and became stewards of their country’s cultural, economic, and political future.