Patricio Pron in conversation with Patricia del Río

It is said that Patricio Pron (Argentina) is a writer’s writer and that his understanding of literature, his efforts to avoid conventionalism and to experiment with language, make him one of the most distinctive and daring storytellers of his generation. En todo hay una grieta y por ella entra la luz begins as a biography of Benjamin Fondane, but soon becomes a tale of a fractured world, a snapshot of the dizzying pace of New York, with pain at the heart of the narrative, all woven together through footnotes. Pron says that literature is “a reservoir of possible ideas”, which is why this conversation with Patricia del Río is an invitation to reflect on the role of literature in our time.