A lecture by Ilija Trojanow
About the lecture
No doubt the threat of catastrophic climate change requires also an aesthetic recalibration, new narratives and utopian visions to overcome the inertia and hopelessness of the current situation. Based on my experiences writing the novel „EisTau“ (in English: „The Lamentations of Zeno“), now regarded as an early classic of CliFi, I will reflect on the challenges I experienced while writing and on the reactions within the literary scene as well as from readers before shifting my attention to future possibilities and necessities.
About the speaker
Born in Bulgaria, refugee in Italy and Germany, Ilija Trojanow grew up in Kenya, has lived in Paris, studied in Munich, moved to Mumbai and then to Cape Town, and has been living in Vienna since 2008. A widely travelled novelist and essayist of twenty books, his works have been translated into thirty languages. He has taught at universities in Germany, Austria and the USA.
Video recording:
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai
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