Vivir fuera de lugar me ha dirigido hacia la derrota de lo real”: Una conversación con Pablo Brescia (Living out of place has led me towards the defeat of the real”: A Conversation with Pablo Brescia)

Abstract

Pablo Brescia was born in Argentina in 1968 and lives in the United States since 1986. He has graduated with a Bachelor’s degr ee in philosophy and Spanish (1993), a Masters in Spanish (1995) and a doctorate in Hispanic Languages and Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara (2000). He has published the short story collections La apariencia de las cosas (The Appearance of Things, 1997, UNAM); Fuera de lugar (Out of Place, 2012, Bo rrador; 2013, UNAM), and La derrota de lo real (The Defeat of the Real, 2017, SED; Librosampleados) on top of the anthologies ESC (2013, Suburbano); and Gente ordinaria (Ordinary People, 2014, Ediciones Carton- ERA). Ha has also published the book of hybrid texts No hay tiempo para la poesía (No Time for Poetry, 2011, Tantalia) under the pseudonym Harry Bimer. He participated in the short story anthology Se habla español: voces latinas en USA (Spanish Spoken Here: Latino Voices in th e USA, 2000, Alfaguara). He is a professor of Latin American literature at the University of South Florida (Tampa).