Dislocations: literature without borders

Online literary meeting between Venezuelan poet and author Oriette D'Angelo and Salvadoran-born American writer Roberto Coto, moderated by Mexican writer and journalist Mauricio Ruíz. On the topic they will address in their colloquium, the moderator of the colloquium has written a piece that synthesizes the literary field that both guest authors will travel together. It is this: You wake up and you don't know where you are, you don't recognize if it's morning or night. Your eyes do not focus well, you get agitated. After a moment you remember the place, the moment; you have fallen asleep just a few minutes. In the bathroom you throw water on your face, you dry yourself with the towel you brought from far away, that gift you were given before the trip. How many years have passed? That day is clear in your memory, it seems like only a few weeks ago. You wipe your hands, your forehead. You remember the afternoon they bought you that gift, the sand you shook out of your flip-flops before entering the store. Back in your room you look out the window, you recognize the street and the houses, the neighbor with the hose in his hand and the gleam of the grass, and at the same time there is something that seems alien to you. How do you live in a place that exists neither in the past nor in the future, in a present that feels shifting under your feet? How do you tell the future looking back and living in today? Two authors who breathe with the lungs of grandmothers and great-grandfathers, who embrace the silence that speaks from a distance.Two authors who use language to recount their joys and defeats, fatigue and pain, as well as the fortune of being alive and writing.