On Thursday, August 22nd was the launch of “Lecturas del Cono Sur en Sídney”, a book club organized in conjunction with the Consulate General of Chile and in collaboration with the AMIGOSS Association, which will take place between the months of August and November 2024.
The event, which was well attended, took place at the headquarters of the Consulate General and was attended by members of the Consular Corps accredited in Sydney, the Director of the Cervantes Institute in Sydney, Coral Martinez Iscar, and the Department of Languages of the Macquarie University and members of the Argentine, Latin American and general public communities.
After the allusive words of the Consul General of Argentina, where the commemoration of the 40 years of the death of the Argentine writer Julio Cortazar was highlighted, Isidoro Feldman, an argentine citizen whose mother was a student of Cortazar. during his stay in Chivilcoy as a teacher, performed a reading of "Continuity of the Parks" by Cortázar. Likewise, we were pleased to be able to show a personalized welcome video by Hernán Rivera Letelier.
During the meeting, participants were able to taste organic Malbec from the province of Mendoza, courtesy of the Argento Winery of the Avinea Group, and Argentine empanadas.
The Club will continue in the month of September with the reading of the work "The Film Accountant" by Rivera Letelier, which will be analyzed on September 26 at the headquarters of the AMIGOSS Association. Then, during the month of October, Cortázar's "Casa Tomada" and "El Perseguidor" will be read, which will be analyzed on October 23 at this Argentine Consulate General.
We invite all interested parties to join the Reading Club by sending an email to readingsconosur2024@gmail.com.
