Underground cities, bunkers, caves, cemeteries, geoglyphs, land art, crop circles, psychogeography, the cult of ruins, the "foxholes" of the Falklands or Malvinas War—which fired the imagination of those who were children in Argentina at the time,—the never-cleared Belgian trenches of the First World War, the alarm regularly triggered by the bombs "sleeping" under German cities, situationist movements, micronations, the gated communities of preppers, forest baths, whose popularity acceptance have continued to increase in the last years, performance art as well as territorial occupations and 'liberations': they all revolve, in different ways and to varying degrees, around the question of how we inhabit the physical world and why we seem unable to stop its destruction before it destroys us in turn. "The Darkness Illuminated Everything" is a work-in-progress. On it, practices and concepts that relate to our enormously conflicted relationship with the physical world are part of a quest-like narrative that explores the possibility of finding ways to heal our connection to the Earth and to ourselves.
Patricio Pron
Vita
Patricio Pron (Argentina, 1975) is the author of six books of short stories, two essays book and eight novels, including "My Fathers' Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain" (2013) and "Don't Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets" (2016). His work has been honoured with numerous awards (among others, the Juan Rulfo and the Alfaguara prizes), regularly anthologized and translated into twelve languages. In 2010 the English magazine Granta chose him as one of the twenty-two best Spanish-language writers of his generation. Pron holds a PhD in Romance Philology from the Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany, and lives in Madrid with his wife and two cats. He has been internationally acclaimed as a writer and an essayist specialized in contemporary literature, culture and society.
Research Areas
Literature
Culture
Society
Publications (Selection)
"Formas de morir", Universidad Nacional de Rosario Editora, 1998
"El vuelo magnífico de la noche", Colihue, 2001
"El comienzo de la primavera", Mondadori, 2008
"El espíritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia", Mondadori, 2011
"El libro tachado. Prácticas de la negación y el silencio en la crisis de la literatura", Turner, 2014
"Mañana tendremos otros nombres", Alfaguara, 2019
"Traumbuch", Delirio, 2022
"No, no pienses en un conejo blanco : literatura, dinero, tiempo, influencia, falsificación, crítica, futuro", CSIC, 2022
"La naturaleza secreta de las cosas de este mundo," Anagrama, 2023