How does the novel enlarge or illuminate our understanding of the past? How does it help us navigate our relationship with the present? Is it possible that the modern novel, born nearly five centuries ago, is no longer at home in the times of social media and post-truth? In this conversation, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Alberto Manguel will be discussing the place of fiction in an evolving society.

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