In this conversation with Tina Vallès, Anna Ballbona and Toni Pou, moderated by the expert on Italo Calvino Francesco Ardolino, we analyze how the author, throughout his narrative and essay production, gives us uncomfortable examples, complicated itineraries and convoluted routes that lead us to reflect on our way of living in the territory and relating to others.
Videos & Publications
Anna Ballbona, Tina Vallès, Toni Pou and Francesco Ardolino and La Calòrica
The imperfect city by Italo Calvino
Kim Hye-jin and Eva Piquer
Breaking the silences
In this conversation with journalist and writer Eva Piquer, Kim Hye-jin, one of the most outstanding and original writers of contemporary Korean literature, talks about her literary universe and her ability to create essential universal stories about the ways of living in the contemporary world.
CCCB Interviews
Judit Carrera: “The purpose of cultural centres is to generate connections”
Interview with Mathieu Potte-Bonneville and Judit Carrera
Conversations about books and writing
Ali Smith
Making political writing into an art
Amélie Nothomb and Sergi Pàmies
The thirst for writing
Margaret Atwood
Looking at the future
Colson Whitehead
Harlem resonances
Eva Baltasar
Lonely hunter's instinct
Colm Tóibín and Jordi Puntí
The Secret Life of Writers
Maria Stepanova
In memory of memory
Ludmila Ulitskaya and Vladimir Sorokin
History, novel, print
Rebecca Solnit
Writing, a gesture of hope
Anna Starobínets
Uses of the imagination
Benjamín Labatut and Eloy Fernández Porta
Outside reason
Isaac Rosa and Gemma Barricarte
The Future is Ours
A morning with Helga Nowotny
Adolescence: A Strange Country
Artificial Intelligence has become a powerful prediction tool. An increasing number of instruments are enabling us to see the present and possible outcomes of what awaits us as humanity. In this talk, Helga Nowotny, a sociologist specializing in science and technology reflects on digital ...
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