A un año de la muerte de Carlos Fuentes, Elena Poniatowska, un vice-presidente de Interlitq, reflexiona sobre la pérdida de un gran amigo

Elena Poniatowska

 

Elena Poniatowska, la escritora y periodista mexicana que es un vicepresidente de Interlitq, ha sido citada en Noticias (15.05.13): A un año de su fallecimiento, Poniatowska está segura de que habrá análisis y reflexiones sobre su obra. “Pero creo que eso es lo de menos, su memoria, el recuerdo de su persona es lo que importa, para muchos fue la pérdida de un escritor muy importante, que lo fue desde luego, pero para mí fue perder a un amigo”.

Carlos Fuentes

Elena Poniatowska, a Vice-President of Interlitq, reflects on the death of Carlos Fuentes, her cherished friend

Elena Poniatowska

A year after the death of Carlos Fuentes, Elena Poniatowska, the Mexican journalist and author who is a Vice-President of Interlitq, reflects (Noticias, 15.05.13) on the loss of her cherished friend.

Carlos Fuentes

Freed Syrian actress, May Skaf, previously played the role of activist and former detainee in play Death and the Maiden, by Ariel Dorfman, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq

Ariel Dorfman

Ariel Dorfman, the Chilean author who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, has been cited in “Prominent Syrian actress and activist released” (Al Arabiya, 18.05.13): Skaf was arrested in summer 2012 and held for three days after taking part in a Damascus protest that became referred to as the “intellectuals’ demonstration.” She has been an outspoken critic of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, posting criticism on her Facebook page. She is best known in Syria for her role in the television series Khan al-Harir, in which she played a strong woman who led demonstrations. She also played the role of an activist and former detainee in the theatrical work Death and the Maiden, by Chile’s Ariel Dorfman.

May Skaf was arrested in summer 2012 and held for three days after taking part in a Damascus protest that became referred to as the “intellectuals’ demonstration.” (Photo courtesy Syrian opposition media)

 

In essay for Turner Contemporary catalogue, Marina Warner, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, and who contributed to Issue 4 of Interlitq, argues that curiosity has long been considered a female vice, a case in point being Nicholas Maes’s painting “An Eavesdropper with a Woman Scolding”

Marina Warner

Marina Warner, the British author who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, and who contributed prose to Issue 4 of Interlitq, has been cited in “Things get curiouser and curiouser at the Turner Contemporary” (Brian Dillon, The Guardian, 18.05.13): “Warner has been an essential adviser for this exhibition. In an essay for the catalogue, she points out that despite the reality and the fantasy of the avid male curioso and collector, curiosity itself has long been considered a female vice: the besetting sin of tattletales, gossips and domestic spies. There’s an example of the last in the show: the listening servant in Nicolaes Maes’s 1655 painting An Eavesdropper with a Woman Scolding, which suggests that the whole ordered space of the Dutch interior is a machine for scrutinising the secret lives of others.”

An Eavesdropper with a Woman Scolding by Nicolaes Maes

Brian Dillon

Élisabeth Roudinesco, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, claims that Anna Freud was in a relationship with Dorothy Burlingham and that Sigmund Freud was “supportive” of the relationship

Élisabeth Roudinesco

Élisabeth Roudinesco, the French intellectual who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, has been cited in “Freud slips into France’s row over gay marriage” (Matthew Campbell, The Sunday Times, 13.01.13): Elisabeth Roudinesco has caused a stir among Freud’s disciples by claiming his daughter Anna was in a relationship with an American heiress for decades, helping her to raise her four children. Roudinesco says Freud came to accept them as a “family like any other”. Far from frowning on his daughter’s homosexuality, Freud, she said, was “totally tolerant” and “supportive” of her life with Dorothy Burlingham, an heiress to Tiffany’s, the jeweller.

Sigmund Freud with his daughter Anna, now claimed to be homosexual (akg-images / Imagno)