Interpret Fanon

Interview with Eduardo Grüner

Abstract

Eduardo Grüner is an essayist and cultural critic, sociologist, and Doctor of Social Sciences. He was a tenured university professor in courses devoted to aesthetic theory (film, literature, anthropology of art), political theory, and Marxism. In 2004 he received the Konex Award for Philosophical Essay; in 2011, the National Prize for Political Essay for La oscuridad y las luces. Capitalismo, cultura y revolución (2010) and, in 2024, the Platinum Konex. In addition to countless prologues, prefaces, introductory studies, book chapters and essays published in polítical-cultural reviews, his works include Un género culpable (1996), Las formas de la espada (1997), El sitio de la mirada (2001), El fin de las pequeñas historias (2002), La cosa política (2005), Iconografías malditas, imágenes desencantadas (2017), La obsesión del origen (2020), Lo sólido en el aire (2021), and La tentación del desastre (2023). This year, along with Pasolini. Nueve variaciones de lectura and El detalle y el rumor. I. Las formas del ensayo, he published Frantz Fanon. La violencia de la tierra. On this occasion, we spoke with him about this latest book. The conversation revolves around the different possible readings of Fanon –his Marxism, violence, Negritude, the essay and the pamphlet as literary and political genres– and the potential of a reading strategy based on anachronism.