Cultural Activities

For the round tables, there will be simultaneous interpretation into English. Participants will need to bring an electronic device (mobile phone, computer, tablet, etc.) and headphones. The interpretation will be transmitted via Zoom. The Zoom meeting link will be provided in the days leading up to the conference.

Wednesday, February 18: BOOK PRESENTATION. Complete Tales, by Edgar Allan Poe. Páginas de Espuma Publishing House.

On Wednesday, February 18, from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m., the presentation of the book Complete Tales by Edgar Allan Poe, published by Páginas de Espuma, will take place. This is the most recent Spanish translation of the author’s complete short stories. The edition, edited by writers Fernando Iwasaki and Jorge Volpi, includes forewords by Mariana Enríquez and Patricia Esteban Erlés. Likewise, each of the sixty-seven stories is preceded by a commentary written by different prominent figures from Spanish-language literature. During the presentation, we will be joined by Fernando Iwasaki, editor of the volume; Rafael Accorinti, translator; and Arturo Garrido, illustrator, who will discuss the editorial process, the translation, and the visual interpretation of Poe’s stories.

This activity will be conducted in Spanish. An interpreter will provide simultaneous interpretation into English via Zoom.

Thursday, February 19: THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE: Terror Of The Soul: a DIA/MONOlogue?, written and performed by Julio Ángel Olivares Merino

Through a vivid and evocative reading and audiovisual projection of Edgar Allan Poe’s primary poetic lines, dreams, allegories and symbols —as well as his grotesque and bizarre scenarios—, the audience will delve into the immortal writer’s essential themes and mindscapes. This performance will offer an updated reflection on Poe’s imaginative pillars of the sublime, a moving unearthing of feelings, ghosts of diaspora, fits of delirium and nightmares which will combine echoes of the “attentive” wanderer and his graphic intimacies of the self.

Terror Of The Soul: a DIA/MONOlogue? is an insightful journey for lovers of Poe’s poetic imagination manifesting the power of words, silence and polyphony, to leave a lingering reverberation, a vaporous homage to Edgar Allan Poe’s eternal legacy. 

This activity will be conducted in English. There will be no simultaneous interpretation into Spanish.

Friday, February 20: SCREENING AND DISCUSSION OF THE FILM Extraordinary Tales (Raúl García, 2015).

On Friday, February 20, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m., the animated film Extraordinary Tales (2015) will be screened, with Edgar Allan Poe as a central character: When Poe visits his wife’s grave, Death claims his poet’s soul. From that moment on, a game of macabre stories begins, based on the tales “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and “The Masque of the Red Death.” After the screening, a round-table discussion will be held with the participation of the film’s director, Raúl García, and one of the illustrators, Fernando Mircala, who will share their creative experience and reflect on the cinematic adaptation of Poe’s stories.

This activity will be conducted in Spanish. An interpreter will provide simultaneous interpretation into English via Zoom.