Book Launch and Talk with author Adrian Duncan
Love Notes from a German Building Site
Adrian Duncan discusses the influence of art, architecture and Berlin on the writing of his debut novel „Love Notes from a German Building Site“, The Lilliput Press 2019.
About the book
Paul, a young Irish engineer, follows Evelyn to Berlin and begins work on the renovation of a commercial building in Alexanderplatz. Wrestling with a new language, on a site running behind schedule, and with a relationship in flux, he becomes increasingly untethered. Set against the structural evolution of a sprawling city, this meditation on language, memory and yearning is underpinned by the site’s physical reality. As the narrator explores the mind’s fragile architecture, he begins to map his own strange geography through a series of notebooks, or ‘Love Notes’. Paul’s story will speak to anyone who has known what it is to be in love, or exiled, or simply alone.
About the author
Adrian Duncan is a Berlin-based Irish visual artist who originally trained as a structural engineer. He is an alumnus of the NCAD MA Programme Art in the Contemporary World.
His short-form fiction has appeared in „The Stinging Fly“, „gorse“, „The Moth“, „The Dublin Review“ and „Meridian“ (US), among others. His feature film "Flyring Structures" on Irish engineer Peter Rice, co-directed with Feargal Ward, premiered at the Dublin International Film Festival 2019.
The event is part of “Common Denominator: Art in the Contemporary World” at the Goethe-Institut Irland, a two-year programme of exhibitions, events, seminars and workshops in collaboration with the National College of Art & Design.