June 10, Wednesday evening -- Reading José Manuel Prieto

At the Hotel Rex, reading for an audience assembled by the Center for Art and Translation
Reading, eponymous to his surroundings -- Rex, his own book, first published in Spanish, which he wrote in Russia and set in Spain. He is Cuban and went to Russia originally to study engineering.

The book contains a fraudulent tutor who claims, because he has a very specific knowledge base, that all you really need to know can be learned from A La Recherche du Temps Perdu. This is in contrast to the reader in the post below.