Encounters

On the Melancholy of Resistance

On the Melancholy of Resistance

In this new Encounter, Andrés Hax discovers a writer and a filmmaker who jolt his memories of place and help define his relationship with fictional locations. 

"It is a deep pleasure to read an author without any critical preconceptions because you are absolutely free to live inside of the work, to come to it on your own terms, to evaluate it as something new." 

Encounters: Yannis Ritsos and the Messages in the Bottle

Encounters: Yannis Ritsos and the Messages in the Bottle

"Yet we did not come into the world
only to die.
Since at dawn
it smells of lemon peel."
                       Yannis Ritsos

In this episode of Encounters, we follow Yannis Ritsos through his exile in Greek concentration camps and the purpose that kept him alive. 

Encounters: Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Pasternak and the Bomb

Encounters: Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Pasternak and the Bomb

We begin our new series Encounters with the strange tale of an Italian publisher and would-be terrorist.

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't."  Mark Twain, Following the Equator