Conversation with Judith Schalansky
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Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) Carrer de Montalegre 5, 08001 Barcelona
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German writer Judith Schalansky will visit the CCCB to talk about literature, the power of memory, and the power of fiction to remember and relive what we have been or have known.
Schalansky is an expert in making us travel without leaving the page. In 2010 she surprised the world with Atlas of Remote Islands (Penguin Books, 2010): an unusual collection of maps and micro-stories, each of which took place on one of on fifty islands "on which I have never been and will never set foot," as the author assures in the subtitle.
On this occasion, the writer will visit the CCCB to talk about this conception of literature as a game that straddles genres, and about books as artifacts to make the imagination fly. Her latest work, An Inventory of Losses (Hachette Collections, 2020O, was edited in Catalan by Més Llibres in 2020 and in Spanish by Acantilado in 2021. It’s an unclassifiable creation that recovers disappeared cities, extinct animals, islands swallowed by water, untraceable literary works and paintings devoured by fire through tales and stories halfway between reality and fiction.
This event will take place in Catalan and English, with simultaneous translations from English to Catalan.
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