Jeudi en résidence avec Elaine Vilar Madruga (en espagnol)

"The Beauty of Darkness: A Talk on Everyday Delirium and Terror"
During this Thursday in residency, Elaine Vilar Madruga offers an exploration of her most recent writing through the compositional and literary strategies that led to the creation of her novels "The Tyranny of Flies", "The Cavities", and "What the Forest Devours".
This talk approaches the beauty of darkness as a symbolic representation of reality; dystopia as a metaphor for the everyday; estrangement as a literary device; and the non-mimetic as an unsettling reflection of the world.
Concepts such as fear, the recovery of memory, the archetypal, the sensitive and sensory dimensions of remembrance, and literature as both testimony and political body accompany us on this literary journey with a Caribbean author who fiercely defends the right to hybridity and to rage.

Fondation Jan Michalski, Thursday 9 April 2026