Writing is rendered a battle of betrayal and counter-betrayal, whereby it is not truth (fidelity) that leads to the real, but subterfuge (perfidy) that gives us the really real, the heart of the matter!

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.

For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/

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A Conversation for RMST 202. With Bécquer Seguín (Johns Hopkins University) and Jon Beasley-Murray.

Lecture video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k-_eMlcYl0

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A Conversation for RMST 202. With Ryan Long (University of Maryland) and Jon Beasley-Murray.

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Bolaño's fiction, whether set in Chile or Mexico, is as much about a memory of Latin America as it is about the region’s actuality, even if that memory is sometimes also a memory of the future.

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.

For RMST 202. ⁠https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/⁠

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Money is, after all, one of the most powerful fictions that structure social relations.By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.00:00 Introduction 08:49 Based on a True Story20:41 Questions 22:38 Bonfire of the Vanities35:05 CreditsFor RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/#romancestudies #rmst202

A Conversation for RMST 202. With Fabricio Tocco (Australian National University) and Jon Beasley-Murray.

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There is a margin of uncertainty in life as in literature, and a strange resonance between the experiences of living in Communist society and engaging with a text, both of which are exercises in close reading, a hermeneutics of suspicion.By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.00:00 Introduction04:06 The Uncertainty of Interpretation05:54 Questions13:43 The Temptations of Complicity19:20 CreditsFor RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/#rmst202 #romancestudies

A Conversation for RMST 202. With famed Romanian writer Norman Manea, Jon Beasley-Murray, and students of RMST 202.

We profoundly thank Professor Manea for the privilege of his time and his extraordinary generosity.

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The power of writing has little to do with whatever meaning it may convey, subject to interpretation, but rather with the book as fetish object, the materiality of paper.

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.

For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/

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In rewriting the lover, Duras also rewrites herself, her origin as writer, in a precarious zone shuttling between past and future and back again.By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.00:00 Introduction 03:11 Approaching Agency09:35 Questions 12:19 Rewriting Hierarchy22:01 CreditsFor RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/#romancestudies #rmst202