Gustavo Faverón-Patriau

Gustavo Faverón Patriau

Affiliation: Romance Languages and Literatures, Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies, Hispanic Studies

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Chair of Romance Languages and Literatures Department

Novelist and scholar working on Latin American contemporary literature and political history.

Gustavo Faverón Patriau is a Latin American novelist, scholar, and journalist. He is the author of two novels (Vivir abajo and The Antiquarian), three scholarly books (Rebeldes, Contra la alegoría, and El orden del Aleph), a volume of his selected work as a journalist (Puente Aéreo), and two edited books (Bolaño salvaje and Toda la sangre: cuentos peruanos de la violencia política). His work has been translated into ten languages. Currently, his academic work focuses on the limits of visual and linguistic representation, the representation of mental illness, and the work of Jorge Luis Borges. He has been a Visiting Professor at Stanford University, as well as a professor at Middlebury College Language School and Universidad Cayetano Heredia. He was on the board of Diacritics, and has served as director of the magazines La Vaca Multicolor, Somos, and Visto & Bueno, and the journal Dissidences. His blog Puente Aéreo was considered by the Spanish newspaper ABC as "the most influential in the Hispanic World."

NOVELS

Minimosca

Barcelona: Candaya, 2024. Second edition, 2024.
Lima: Peisa, Third edition, 2025.

Vivir abajo

Lima: Peisa, 2018. Second edition, 2019.
Barcelona, Candaya, 2019. Second, Third, Fourth editions, 2019, 2020, 2021. Fifth edition, 2024.
French translation. Paris: Editions Christian Bourgeois. Forthcoming, 2025.
German translation. Vienna: Droschl. Forthcoming, 2025.
English translation. Inpatient Press / M.I.T. Forthcoming, 2026.

El anticuario

Lima: Peisa, 2010. Second, Third editions, 2014, 2019.
Barcelona: Candaya, 2015. Second edition, 2017.
Russian translation. Saint Petersburg: Arkadia, 2024.
English translation. The Antiquarian. New York: Grove Atlantic, 2014.
Arabic translation. Cairo: Al Arabi, 2016.
Japanese translation. Tokyo: Suiseisha, 2015.
Turkish translation. Izmir: Deli Dolu, 2015.
Chinese translation. Taiwan: Weekly Business Publications, 2015.

SCHOLARLY BOOKS

El orden del Aleph

Barcelona: Candaya, 2022.
Lima: Peisa, 2022; second edition 2023.

Contra la alegoría. Hegemonía y disidencia en la literatura latinoamericana del siglo XIX

Theorie und Kritik der Kultur und der Literatur / Teoría y Crítica de la Cultura y de la Literatura, Olms Verlag, 2011.

Rebeldes: Sublevaciones indígenas y naciones emergentes en Hispanoamérica en el siglo XVIII

Madrid: Editorial Tecnos, 2006.

EDITED BOOKS

Bolaño salvaje. Gustavo Faverón Patriau and Edmundo Paz Soldán, Eds. Barcelona: Candaya, 2008. Second edition, expanded, 2010.

Bolaño Selvaggio. Gustavo Faverón Patriau and Edmundo Paz Soldán, Eds. (Italian translation by M. Magliani). Rome: Senzapatria Editore, 2012.

Bolaño Selvaggio. Second Italian Edition. Gustavo Faverón Patriau and Edmundo Paz Soldán, Eds. (Italian translation by G. Agnoloni). Rome: Miraggi Editore, 2019.

Toda la sangre. Antología de cuentos peruanos sobre la violencia política. Gustavo Faverón Patriau, Ed. Lima: Editorial Matalamanga, 2006.

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JOURNALISTIC BOOKS

Puente Aéreo

Lima: Peisa, 2015.

“¿Por qué nos negamos a entender el final de “La gallina degollada”? Horacio Quiroga y lo abyecto inmirable”. Hispanic Review. Spring or Winter, 2024. Approved for publication. (9,140 words).
“Cortázar, Dylan Thomas y el Apocalipsis”. Modern Language Notes, Vol. 137, No. 2 (Hispanic Issue), March 2023. (6,100 words).
“Heterotopías decoloniales y subversiones de la sexualidad en “A menor mulher do mundo” de Lispector y “El informe de Brodie” de Borges”. Hispania, Vol. 106, No. 1, 2023. (12,560 words).
“Centro excéntrico y centro vacío: en torno a Muchacha punk de Fogwill”. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Vol. 99. No. 8, 2022, 1345-1368. (11,210 words).
“Fisión y visión: lo inmirable y la bomba atómica en un cuento de Jorge Luis Borges”. In: Pensar el lenguaje. Miguel Rodríguez Mondoñedo and Liliana Sánchez (Eds.) Lima: Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Católica del Perú. Approved for publication. Forthcoming in 2024. (12,047 words).
“La memoria como enfermedad en Anatomía de la memoria de Eduardo Ruiz Sosa”. Coauthored with Carolyn Wolfenzon. Hispanic Research Journal, Vol. 23, No. 2-3, 2022, 210-228, DOI: 10.1080/14682737.2022.2134658.
“Sobre las fotografías de la masacre de Uchuraccay”. Trama, 8.10.2022 (3,800 words).
“Cambio de ideas: la evolución ideológica de Mario Varga Llosa”. Video-recorded interview with Nobel Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. Brunswick-Madrid (2021). Unpublished. 1hour and 46 minutes. Forthcoming (in video and text): La Vaca Multicolor.
“El Twain de Borges: alusiones, elisiones y desilusiones de la historia en un manuscrito de 1949”. Variaciones Borges, No. 54, 2022, pp. 81-100. (7,060 words).
“Una heterotopía del odio: el antisemitismo nazi en un libro denunciado por Borges”. Cuadernos de Cómic, Universidad de Alcalá, No. 18, 2022, pp. 73-94. (7,445 words).
“El mapa y el horror en Borges”. Quimera, No. 463.464, 2022, 30-33 (2,442 words).
“Maupassant, Conrad, Quiroga, una genealogía: perversiones de la historia en ‘La Mère aux monstres’, ‘The Idiots’ y ‘La gallina degollada’”. Romance Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 3, 2022, 144-157. (9,599 words).
“Manicomios imaginarios / infiernos reales: W. J. T. Mitchell y Maruja en el infierno”. Romance Notes, Vol. 62, No. 1, 2022, pp. 143-52. (4,419 words).
“Pizarnik, Piglia: el lenguaje como enfermedad”. Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, No. 865, 2022, pp. 34-37. (2,578 words).
“Máscara Azteca y el Doctor Niebla: Revolución y postapocalipsis en una ficción de Taibo II”. Confluencia, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2021, pp. 153-161. (4,900 words).
“Soledad y distancia: la empatía después de la pandemia”. Otros Diálogos de El Colegio de México, No. 17, 2021. Online: <https://otrosdialogos.colmex.mx/soledad-y-distancia-la-empatia-despues-de-la-pandemia> (2,028 words).
“From Neverland to No Man’s Land: Lima in Vargas Llosa”. In: Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. Jeremy Tambling (Ed.) Online edition, 2021, pp. 1-14. Also forthcoming in print. Online:<https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8>. (9,788 words).
“Max Baitinger, Röhner”. La Vaca Multicolor, Book review, September, 2021. (1,200 words).
“Olivier Schrauwen, Florent Ruppert and Jérôme Mulot. Guy, retrato de un bebedor”. La Vaca Multicolor, Book review. May, 2021. (2,396 words).
“It’s a Real Nowhere Land: Ricardo Piglia’s The Absent City”. In: Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. Jeremy Tambling (Ed.) Online edition, 2021, 1-7. Also forthcoming in print. Online: <https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8>. (3,378 words).
“Lo abyecto y lo inmirable: la muerte de la metáfora en Spiegelman, Scafati, Schrauwen y Shaw”. Cuadernos de Cómic, Universidad de Alcalá, No. 16, 2021, pp. 64-87. (8,090 words).
“Daniel Balderston’s How Borges Wrote”. Latin American Literary Review, Book review, Vol. 48, No. 96, 2021. (1,424 words).
“Una revuelta contra la muerte. La ciudad que el diablo se llevó, de David Toscana”. Quimera, Book review, No. 448, March, 2021. (770 words).
“Ser la isla y el mapa a la vez: Null Island de Javier Moreno”. Revista de Letras. Madrid, Review article, December, 2020. (1,820 words).
“La paradoja del capital. Mario Vargas Llosa y Tiempos recios”. Buen Salvaje, Review article, No. 19, December, 2019. (2,461 words).

2024

June: Lima International Book Fair, Lima, Peru.
September: El Faro de Recóndito / Los veinte de Candaya. A conversation with Vicente Gómez, Almería, Spain.
November-December: Minimosca Book Tour, twelve days, twelve cities. Spain.

2023

June: Madrid Book Fair, Madrid, Spain.
June: Migration and Literature. A conversation with Fernanda García Lao and Eduardo Ruiz Sosa, Gijón, Spain.
July: Q&A with festival audience Leonardo Padura and Diamela Eltit, KMAmérica Literary Festival, Barcelona.
July: Parents and Children in Latin American Literature. Roundtable with Franco Félix and Natalia García Freire, KMAmérica Literary Festival, Barcelona.
July: Interview with Julián Figueres, El Chinchorro, Episodi 5, Entrevista amb Gustavo Faverón Patriau, Radio MacOnda, Biblioteca Gabriel García Másquez, Biblioteques de Barcelona, Barcelona.

2022

March: "Borges Today". A conversation with Alan Pauls, W Magazín, Spain.
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April: Buenos Aires International Book Fair. Book presentation, El Orden del Aleph.
June: Madrid International Book Fair.
June: Barcelona Port-America Literary Festival.
June: Zaragoza, Book presentation, El Orden del Aleph.

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2018-2021

“Grandes mundos narrativos: una aproximación a las novelas de Gustavo Faverón Patriau”. Other panel members: Andrea Crespo, Andrés Landázuri, and Martín Riofrío. Facilitator: María Paulina Briones. Universidad de Las Artes, Guayaquil, Ecuador. November, 2021.
“Entrevistas bicéfalas”. Palabralab. A conversation on writing fiction. With Natalia García Freire and Adelaida Jaramillo. Via Zoom. Quito, Ecuador. June, 2021.
“How to Write a Novel in Lockdown?”. Zoom talk. Organized by Direcció d’Acció Cultural i Educativa de Biblioteques de Barcelona (Barcelona Public Library.) Third of three talks in a conferenced titled “Three Essential Authors of Contemporary Latin American Literature: Piglia, Bolaño, and Faverón Patriau”. Discussion with Mexican writer Eduardo Ruiz Sosa. 12.17.2020.
“David Toscana’s Mexican Ghosts in Warsaw”. Book presentation of David Tosacana’s La ciudad que el diablo de llevó. Zoom talk. Institution: Candaya Barcelona. 11.25.2020. With David Toscana and Diego Gómez Pickering.
“Living in Null Island: The Novel without Characters”. Book presentation of Javier Moreno’s Null Island. Zoom talk. Institutions: Documenta Barcelona and Candaya Barcelona. 06.25.2020. With Javier Moreno.
Invited as a keynote speaker to Festival Hispanoamericano de Escritores. Canary Islands, Spain. July, 2020. Needed to cancel presentation due to pandemic.
“The New Latin American Global Novel”. Invited talk at Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, 2019.
“The Local Omens of Global Literature”. Round Table with Raúl Tola, Rosa Beltrán and Juan Jesús Armas Marcelo. Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Novel Prize, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2019.
Vivir Abajo, book presentation with David Toscana and Javier Moreno. La Buena Vida, Madrid, Spain, 2019.
Round Table with Gioconda Belli, Antonio Soler, Manuel Vilas, Rodrigo Blanco Calderón. Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Novel Prize. Guadalajara, Mexico, 2019.
Vivir Abajo, book presentation with Mario de los Santos. Librería Antígona, Zaragoza, Spain, 2019.
Vivir Abajo, book presentation with Rafa Agustín, Olga Martínez and Paco Robles. Espai Romaní Vilafranca del Penedés, Spain, 2019.
Vivir Abajo, book presentation with Xavi Ayén. La Central, Barcelona, 2019.
Vivir Abajo, book presentation with Eduardo Ruiz Sosa. El Librerío de la Plata. Sabadell, Spain, 2019.
Vivir Abajo, book presentation with Rodrigo Blanco Calderón. Áncora, Málaga, Spain, 2019.
Vivir Abajo, book presentation with Fernando Iwasaki. La Caótica. Seville, Spain, 2019.
Interviewed on El Lector Semiótico, Entrevistas en Vivo. Ecuador, September, 2021.
Interviewed on Plus Media TV, Perú, June of 2021.
Interviewed by political scientists on Contrarquitectura, via Zoom from Cusco, Perú. June, 2021.
Interviewed by Marcelo Cruz, Radio Voz Andina Internacional, Ecuador, May of 2021.
Interviewed on Plus Media TV, Perú, May of 2021.
Interviewed by Manuel Sollo, Radio Nacional Española, Sevilla, 2019.
Interviewed for Radio Asturias, Spain, 2019.
Interviewed for Radio Exterior, Spain, 2019.
Interviewed by Manuel Pedraz, Radio Nacional Española, Madrid, 2019.
Interviewed by Pablo Brulajance, Málaga Hoy, Spain, 2019.
Interviewed by Ricardo Iván Paredes, Pliego Suelto, Madrid, 2019.
Interviewed and profiled Babelio, France-Spain, 2019.
Interviewed for Letras Libres, Barcelona, 2019.
Interviewed by Xavi Ayén, La Vanguardia, Barcelona, 2019.
Interviewed by Jesús Morillo, Diario ABC, Barcelona, 2019.
Interviewed by for El Periódico, Barcelona, 2019.
Interviewed by Ernesto Carlín, El Peruano, Lima, 2018.

Education

PhD, Cornell University, Department of Romance Studies, 2005
MA, Cornell University, Department of Romance Studies, 2002
BA, Linguistics and Literature, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 1991

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