SEMINARIO MARIO VARGAS LLOSA
FALL 2023
Captain Pantoja and the Special Service / Pantaleón y las visitadoras:
A Satirical Look at the Peruvian Society of the Late 1960’s and Early 1970’s
Days:
Tuesday, October 17 — Rifkind Center, NAC 6/316
Thursday, October 19— Rifkind Center, NAC 6/316
Friday, October 20 — Instituto Cervantes, NYC*
Time:
All meetings: 4:30-8:30 pm
Location:
Rifkind Center, NAC 6/316
*Except 10/20, when it will be at the
Instituto Cervantes, NYC
211-215 E 49th St,
New York, NY 10017
BILINGUAL AND OPEN TO GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATES!
Course Number: Undergraduate: SPAN 39000; Graduate: SPAN V39000
Department: Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures (CMLL) City College of New York
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Offered through the Cátedra Mario Vargas Llosa and the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures at The City College, CUNY, with the cooperation of the Instituto Cervantes, this one (1) credit seminar focuses on Mario Vargas Llosa’s novel Captain Pantoja and the Special Service / Pantaleón y las visitadoras (1973). This year the Seminar will be conducted by Professor and Chair Ángel Estévez. Participants may read the novel in either English or Spanish, but knowledge of Spanish is highly desired. The first two sessions of the seminar will explore the novel as a farce, which stretches to offer a satirical look onto Iquitos as a microcosm of the Peruvian Society of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. The absurd and the grotesque, humor and sexuality all converge in Pantaleón to depict the roles played by a captain whose demeanor does not always correspond to that of a military of his rank and tradition. The seminar will close at Instituto Cervantes (NYC) with a talk by Ana María Hernández (LaGuardia) on Vargas Llosa and the influence of French writers on his career as a novelist. Early this year our Nobel Prize winner (2010) was inducted into the Académie Française. A Q&A session will follow.
Required Text: Mario Vargas Llosa, Captain Pantoja and the Special Service / Pantaleón y las visitadoras (any edition in either Spanish or English)
For graduate registration: contact Prof. Devid Paolini, Director M.A. Program in Spanish: dpaolini@ccny.cuny.edu [or] Ms. Rosa Martínez: rmartinez@ccny.cuny.edu and
Prof. Carlos Riobó (Co-Director of the Cátedra Vargas Llosa): criobo@ccny.cuny.edu
For general information: contact the Department of Classical and Modern Langs. & Lits. 212-650-6731