Ana Menéndez over Borges, Nabokov en tweetaligheid
Zo begint de Tweede Cola Debrot-lezing van de Cubaans-Amerikaanse Ana Menéndez, a.s. woensdag 6 april:
My first memory is about language. I’m two years old and being carried by my mother. She is holding me in one arm and with the other is opening the freezer. “Esto se llama hielo,” she says, taking out a tray of ice. “Así es como se dice amarillo en Inglés.”
This is called ice; that is how you say yellow in English. I don’t know what my toddler mind made of this riddle. But it shocked and delighted me enough that I still remember it almost 40 years later. I think it was there in that little kitchen in Tampa, Florida, that my life-long fascination with language – its possibilities as well as its limitations – was born.
Ana Menéndez over Jorge Luis Borges, Nabokov, Italo Calvino, George Perec en de kracht van de tweetaligheid.
Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, woensdag 6 april 2011, 20.00 uur
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