Carolina Bruck: 'Fiction can transform the way we understand the world'
This summer series has already brought us Samantha Harvey and Patrick Cash. Now it's time for Carolina Bruck and her translator Ellen Jones, with Bruck's short story China.
We start with questions of vocabulary, as Bruck clears up exactly what a china is and fills us in on the cultural significance of the gaucho.
The author says she was writing against Esteban Echeverría's poem The Captive, inverting the traditional Argentine dichotomy between civilisation and barbarity.
"Civilisation has always been associated with everything that comes from Europe," she says, "and la barbarie – this…
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