Tatiana and Niko meet together to discuss great literature of the past and present. In each episode they read a book of contemporary world literature and pair it with a canonical western classic to delve into shared literary themes and questions that writers keep returning to across space and time.
Follow us on Instagram: @desperatereaderspod
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Sound recording and editing by Niko and Tatiana
Opening music by Seth Thomsen
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Tatiana and Niko meet together to discuss great literature of the past and present. In each episode they read a book of contemporary world literature and pair it with a canonical western classic to delve into shared literary themes and questions that writers keep returning to across space and time.
Follow us on Instagram: @desperatereaderspod
and Twitter: @DesperateReads
Sound recording and editing by Niko and Tatiana
Opening music by Seth Thomsen
XLIV. El llano en llamas: The Burning Plain by Juan Rulfo
Desperate Readers
44 minutes 21 seconds
1 year ago
XLIV. El llano en llamas: The Burning Plain by Juan Rulfo
A underrated classic praised by Nobel winners. Niko and Tatiana read two short stories, "The Burning Plain" and "Tell Them Not to Kill Me!", from Juan Rulfo's El llano en llamas recently translated by Douglas J. Weatherford.
Desperate Readers
Tatiana and Niko meet together to discuss great literature of the past and present. In each episode they read a book of contemporary world literature and pair it with a canonical western classic to delve into shared literary themes and questions that writers keep returning to across space and time.
Follow us on Instagram: @desperatereaderspod
and Twitter: @DesperateReads
Sound recording and editing by Niko and Tatiana
Opening music by Seth Thomsen