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    [EFF17S1] Session 1: 327 Notebooks: The Diaries of Ricardo Piglia

    Cite as: Temple, Michael and Barrington, Matthew (2023): [EFF17S1] Session 1: 327 Notebooks: The Diaries of Ricardo Piglia. Birkbeck College, University of London.

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    24 March 2017, 18:00, ICA Cinema

    Film: 327 Notebooks: The Diaries of Ricardo Piglia [327 Cuadernos: los diarios de Ricardo Piglia], Andrés Di Tella, Argentina/Chile 2015, DCP, 76 minutes, Spanish with English Subtitles

    A moving and meditative essay film by Argentine writer-director Andrés Di Tella about the diaries of one of the greatest novelists in the Spanish language, Ricardo Piglia (Artificial Respiration), who died in January of 2017. In the film, Piglia returns to Argentina after having lived abroad for many years. He comes back with the purpose of reviewing for the first time the 327 notebooks that constitute his personal diary, the record of his life for more than half a century. A kind of cinematic diary about diaries, Di Tella’s film follows Piglia for a year, during which time the writer is diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease. As critic Haden Guest writes, this unexpected turn of events gives “a sudden and sad urgency” to the film, which becomes, as a result, “an important chapter in Piglia’s life and an inspiration for a new, heroic and possibly final diary project”.

    After the screening, filmmaker Andrés Di Tella was in conversation with John Kraniauskas (CILAVS, Birkbeck).

    In collaboration with Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies at Birkbeck, University of London.

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    1 - EFF17S1 Introduction (EFF17S1 Andres Di Tella 327 Notebooks Introduction 24-3-2017.MP3)

    2 - EFF17S1 Discussion (EFF17S1 Andres Di Tella 327 Notebooks discussion 24-3-2017.MP3)

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    [EFF17S1] Session 1: 327 Notebooks: The Diaries of Ricardo Piglia
    Creators:

    Temple, Michael and Barrington, Matthew
    Dataset Contributors:

    ContributionNameEmailORCID
    UNSPECIFIEDMcCabe, Janetj.mccabe@bbk.ac.ukORCID logohttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2916-9876
    UNSPECIFIEDYapp, Emmaeyapp01@student.ac.ukORCID logohttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2646-6066
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    Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
    Data collection method:

    The Essay Film Festival ran between 2015 and 2023, and presented a global range of contemporary and restored essayistic works. The events are now archived here for research purposes.
    Collection period:

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    24 March 201724 March 2017
    Statement on legal, ethical, and access issues:

    All film stills were provided by participating artists.
    Depositing User: Emma Yapp
    Date Deposited: 11 Aug 2026 14:26
    Last Modified: 11 Aug 2026 14:26
    Publisher: Birkbeck College, University of London

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    Cite as: Temple, Michael and Barrington, Matthew (2023): [EFF17S1] Session 1: 327 Notebooks: The Diaries of Ricardo Piglia. Birkbeck College, University of London.

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