Joaquín Soler Serrano

In this 1976 interview for Spanish television, Paraguayan author Augusto Roa Bastos, poet and novelist, talks with host Joaquin Soler Serrano about the turbulent colonial history that formed a nation relatively unknown by the world today. In his novels "Son of Man" and "I, the Supreme," Augusto Roa fictionalized the political struggles of his native Paraguay as he explored the consequences of absolute power and dictatorships. His poetry and short...

In this 1977 interview for Spanish television, Argentine novelist, essayist and physicist, Ernesto Sábato, converses with host Joaquin Soler Serrano on a wide range of subjects including science and literature, surrealism and the baroque, the dual nature of man, politics and social justice, and language and the value of regionalism over nationalism. Encouraged by the host, Sábato comments on Jorge Luís Borges, other Argentine writers, and the famous...

Uruguayan author Juan Carlos Onetti talks with Joaquin Soler Serrano in a 1976 interview for Spanish television about his novels and short stories, and his days as journalist in Montevideo and Buenos Aires. He praises the writers of the Latin American Boom and explains his affinity for setting his novels in an imaginary city, Santa Maria, like Marquez and Llosa. Onetti discusses his writing process some of his works like "The Pit," "A Brief Life,"...

Chilean writer José Donoso talks with host Joaquin Soler Serrano in a1976 interview for Spanish television about the influence of his family and the Chilean middle class in his novels and short stories. He left Chile for self-imposed exile in the sixties and at this time resides in Spain where he holds writing workshops patterned on those he experienced at Princeton University. In this interview characterized by his openess, Donoso discusses his...

Host Joaquin Soler Serrano interviews Brazilian writer, Jorge Amado, in 1980 for Spanish television about his early life on a cacao plantation in Bahia, and his popular novels that deal with the exploitation of poor workers who find joy in carnivals, music and sports. He was imprisoned and exiled for his leftist activities by the military dictatorship, but after winning international awards, he was invited to join the Brazilian Academy of Letters....