VIENNA HUMANITIES FESTIVAL
PROGRAMM
TIME SHELTER: THE EXHILARATING POISON OF THE PAST
GEORGI GOSPODINOV IN CONVERSATION WITH IVAN KRASTEV
SONNTAG, 01.10. 2023 / 12h30,
AKADEMIE DER BILDENDEN KÜNSTE WIEN, AULA
What happens when people and societies are denied a sense of the future? How have politicians selling memories of a Utopian past become so successful in recent times? And where might the weaponization of nostalgia lead us? With great wit and insight, the International Booker Prize 2023 winner GEORGI GOSPODINOV in his latest novel, Time Shelter, creates an absurd world where the past can cure the future by invading it. In conversation with IWM Permanent Fellow IVAN KRASTEV, he will explore the threads and threats that link reality to fiction.
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Georgi Gospodinov (1968) is an International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter, and two other award-winning novels, Natural Novel and The Physics of Sorrow. His books are translated into more than 30 languages. Gospodinov’s works include poetry, short stories, essays, theater plays, a graphic novel, social videos Slap Factory and Future Cancelled, and projects related to memory and ideology. He is associate professor at the Institute of Literature, Sofia.