Literature: Santiago Amigorena and "the first exile", memories of Uruguay

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Author Santiago Amigorena.

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By: Pascal Paradou

In his latest novel, Santiago Amigorena talks about his childhood years, from when he was 6 to 12 years old in Uruguay. 

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With a sense of self-mockery and drama, the author tells the story of the origins of his own silence, of his tormented relationship to language, of his traumas, of his learning about life, and of the first intuition of the power of literature in an existence.

Guest:

, author, screenwriter and filmmaker.

His latest work "

" was published

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