Fifth Literary Salon “Nobelized and Others: Literature on the Brink” presents:

(Less) Fateless little pieces of literature
The Nobel Prize-winner Imre Kartesz and his book “Fateless”

The Red House’s fifth edition of the series of Literature Salons will offer a meeting with Imre Kartesz’s “Fateless”, a novel created in the beginning of the 70’s, but awarded with a Nobel prize no sooner than 2003, probably to the surprise of the Hungarians themselves. The novel is about the technology of forcible exile of Hungarian Jews to the German camps at the end of the war; about the abandoning of the human feeling to which they resort to in their attempt to survive. In the face of the journalist Silvia Choleva we have an already proven proponent; the writer and journalist Jassen Atanasov daringly takes the position of opponent against a Jewish Nobel prize-winner who has survived a concentration camp. With the participation of: Malina Tomova, the publisher of the novel and of many other Hungarian and east-European models of the so-called ‘little’ literature; Juliana Dadova, PhD, well-versed in Jewish matters and of everyone who is in favor and against such a laureate - unexpected, as well as an ‘usual suspect’ among the numerous in today’s world of literature policy.

With the special participation of Diord Arato, director of the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Sofia, who will provide with the insider’s look.

Moderator (salon manager): Dimitar Kambourov

Supported by the Swiss Cultural Programme in Bulgaria. In Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
In Bulgarian.

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