Sandra Contreras

Invited Researcher of the 2023 DEA Programme
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Sandra Contreras is professor of Argentine Literature I at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario and principal researcher at CONICET (Argentina's National Council for Scientific and Technical Research), where she currently heads the Institute for Critical Studies in the Humanities (IECH).

She has published the books Las vueltas de César Aira (2002) and En torno al realismo y otros ensayos (2018), as well as numerous articles on contemporary Argentine and Latin American narrative and 19th-century Argentine literature.

She has also published El excursionista del planeta. Escritos de viaje, by Lucio V. Mansilla (2012). From its foundation in 1991 until 2013, she was one of the directors of the Beatriz Viterbo publishing house.

The project

Title: Lucio V. Mansilla à Paris. Une relecture intégrale depuis les archives françaises

Selection of publications

2018. En torno al realismo y otros ensayos. Rosario: Editorial Nube Negra. 250 pages. ISBN: 978-987-46651-4-0.

2012. Compilation, notes et préface à : Lucio V. Mansilla: El excursionista del planeta. Escritos de viaje. Préface: “El genio de los buenos viajes” (pp. 9-50). Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica. 468 pages. ISBN: 978-950-557-934-1.

2002. Las vueltas de César Aira. Rosario: Beatriz Viterbo Editora. Réedition mars 2008. Subvention á la Création artistique Fundación Antorchas. 320 pages. I.S.B.N.: 950-845-115-7.

2023. « César Aira and the Art of Invention ». In Alejandra Laera & Mónica Szurmuk (eds.) : A History of Argentinian Literature. Cambridge University Press. Dans la presse.

2022. “Lucio V. Mansilla en el Paraguay: un territorio propio”, Confluenze, Vol. 14, N. 2, décembre 2022, pp. 429-459.

Published at 27 November 2023