Borges, reader of Voltaire and Flaubert

{"title":"Borges, reader of Voltaire and Flaubert","description":"\u003Cp\u003EProf. Walter Romero, PhD (University of Buenos Aires), Chevalier of the Order of Academic Palms, is a tenured professor and director of the Dr. Gerardo H. Pag\u00e9s Institute, with long-standing research on Borges and world literatures.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis lecture examines Borges's rereading of Voltaire's Candide and Flaubert's Bouvard et P\u00e9cuchet, investigating how he appropriates Voltairean irony and Flaubertian encyclopedic satire to shape recurring themes \u2014 infinity, skepticism, and the limits or defeat of knowledge \u2014 and to trace their lasting imprint on his aesthetic and ethical universe.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIn French.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","start_date":"2026-09-22","end_date":"2026-09-22","date":"Tuesday 22 September, 18:00","timings":[{"timing_start_date":"20260922T160000Z","timing_end_date":"20260922T180000Z"}]}