Located in the heart of the Old Town, in the birthplace of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the MRL is a six-story cultural hub centered on literature. The venue features a permanent exhibition on Rousseau and engages with contemporary issues related to his works. It hosts debates, performances, and educational activities, while also offering residencies for writers and researchers. Additionally, visitors can enjoy a café within the space.
Silvia Hopenhayn, Argentine writer and cultural journalist, offers close readings of Jorge Luis Borges’s fiction and its formal strategies, drawing on her experience with Latin American literature and criticism.
She examines Borges’s short stories, focusing on character creation, paradoxes, enumerations and rhetorical devices, and argues that these brief narratives act as inventive gestures. The session explores figures like Pierre Menard, Funes and Emma Zunz and investigates how form and erudition reveal singular subjectivities.
In French.
Lie down, close your eyes, and let soft stories carry you into a calm nap. Gentle voices and quiet sounds paint colorful scenes inside your head while you rest on a cushion or in a grown-up’s arms. Short audio tales drift like warm blankets, inviting imagination, safety, and rest. This soothing, inclusive moment brings story magic to children who prefer to listen, including those who are blind or have low vision, helping them discover new worlds as they sleep.
In French. Kids ages 4 and up.
An audiovisual parcours immerses visitors in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s life and work, arguing that his writings continue to provoke contemporary debate. Through seven thematic niches, the presentation examines Rousseau’s paradoxes — from individual freedom to social critique — and invites reflection on how his ideas anticipate modern challenges. The session explores tensions in his thought and encourages critical questioning of present assumptions, revealing why Rousseau remains relevant for current political and cultural discussions.
In English at 11:30 am
In French at 2 pm
Douglas Kennedy, born in New York in 1955, is an acclaimed novelist who lives between the United States, Berlin and France. His works include L’homme qui voulait vivre sa vie and La Symphonie du hasard.
He presents the long-awaited sequel to the novel that made him famous, a tense story set in the vast Montana landscapes. The narrative examines identity, paternal abandonment and the resurfacing of secrets as a father confronts the consequences of choices made thirty years earlier.
In French.
Alejandro Vaccaro, collector and biographer of Jorge Luis Borges, appears with Alejandro Roemmers (poet and entrepreneur) and Roberto Alifano (author, poet and essayist) to present their research and collections.
The roundtable examines how collecting practices shape narratives around Borges, exploring notable objects, metonymic extensions of the writer, and the philosophical stakes of preserving literary heritage. Vaccaro will show selected items from his private collection and speakers reflect on memory, curation and literary legacy.
In Spanish.
Performed by the ensemble …Y su Orquesta Quartette, this tango recital traces the intimate dialogue between Jorge Luis Borges’s texts and Latin American composers. The programme draws on the El tango album and works by Astor Piazzolla, Aníbal Troilo, Carlos Guastavino and Eladia Blázquez, alternating nostalgic milongas and stormier tangos. Sparse arrangements and warm bandoneón tones unfold a cinematic, nocturnal atmosphere, where lyricism and longing meet. Presented by Los conjurados as part of the BORGES 2026 project.
In Spanish.
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