Ruben Gallo
Professor of Literature and writer, Princeton University
I'm the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., Professor in Language, Literature, and Civilization of Spain and a writer. I’ve written many books on different subjects, but my specialty is 20th century literature and especially rather eccentric or marginal movements. I wrote a book called Mexican Modernity about the Mexican avant-garde in the ’20s and ’30s. I’ve also written a book about Freud and his relationship to Mexico and one about Proust and his relationship to Latin Americans living in Paris around the turn of the last century. I’ve also written two novels about Cuba.
EXPs by Ruben Gallo
Mario Vargas Llosa wears many hats, but all the books and all the projects, and everything he has done in life, have one thing in common: a passion for ideas, for critical thinking and for the relationship between writing and politics.
Rubén Gallo, Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor at Princeton University, walks us through Cuban literature.
Rubén Gallo, Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor at Princeton University, explores Proust’s connection with Latin American culture.