Snow Falling in Mexico: Joyce Without Borders, 2019 North American James Joyce Symposium, a Review

“Evelyn Conlon sitúa su reescritura de ‘Two Gallants’ en un congreso internacional sobre la figura de James Joyce titulado, renuentemente, Another Look at Joyce. Mencionar este cuento resulta pertinente a la luz de lo que vivimos en el mes de junio, en la Ciudad de México: ‘Joyce Without Borders’: Congreso Norteamericano de James Joyce 2019’. Cuando pareciera que, quizá, no hay nada nuevo que decir acerca de dicho escritor irlandés, este simposio reunió, en la Casa Universitaria del Libro (CASUL), a más de 130 ponentes, distribuidos en 45 mesas, para analizar las distintas formas en las que Joyce encarnó la figura del artista sin fronteras y las maneras como su trabajo y su vida trascendieron límites y divisiones convencionales…”.

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“In her rewriting of ‘Two Gallants’, Evelyn Conlon uses as a setting for her story an international conference reluctantly titled Another Look at Joyce. My reference to this short story is pertinent in the light of what we experienced last June in Mexico City: Joyce Without Borders, the 2019 North American James Joyce Symposium. Although it might seem that nowadays it would be hard to say anything new about the aforementioned Irish author, this symposium welcomed, in Casa Universitaria del Libro (CASUL), more than 130 speakers, distributed in 45 panels, in order to analyze the diverse ways in which Joyce embodied the figure of an artist without borders and how his works and life transcended conventional limits and divisions…”.