Christoph Ransmayr in India
Various Venues
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Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi, New Delhi
- Language German and English
Goethe–Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan together with the Austrian Cultural Forum and Seagull Books is proud to present author Christoph Ransmayr and translator Simon Pare on a literary tour in India from 23 to 31 March 2020.
Celebrating the release of the new novel Cox, or the Course of Time, translated from the German by Simon Pare and published by Seagull Books, Mr. Ransmayr and Mr. Pare will attend events in Delhi and Kolkata!
Delhi Schedule
Christoph Ransmayr is an award-winning Austrian author whose books have been translated into over 30 languages. His prodigious travels provided the material for Atlas of an Anxious Man (2016), and his novel The Flying Mountain (2018), both published by Seagull Books.
Simon Pare has translated a wide variety of non-fiction such as The Panama Papers and Psychoanalyst Meets Marina Abramovic as well as many novels. His translations for Seagull Books include Christoph Ransmayr's The Flying Mountain, which was longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize and earned him the Straelen Most Promising Translator Prize.
Cox, or The Course of Time: The world's most powerful man, Qiánlóng, Emperor of China, invites the famous eighteenth-century clockmaker Alister Cox to his court in Beijing. There, in the heart of the Forbidden City, the Englishman and his assistants are to build machines that mark the passing of time as a child or a condemned man might experience it, and the many shades of happiness, suffering, love and loss. Mystified by the rituals of a rigidly hierarchical society dominated by an unimaginably wealthy, god-like ruler, Cox musters all his expertise and ingenuity to satisfy the emperor's desires. Finally, Qiánlóng, one of whose many titles is the Lord of Time, requests the construction of a clock capable of measuring eternity—a perpetuum mobile. Seizing this chance to realize a long-held dream and honour the memory of his late, beloved daughter, yet conscious of the impossibility of his task, Cox sets to work. As the court is suspended in a never-ending summer, far from the capital, festering with evil gossip about the monster these foreigners are creating, the Englishmen wonder if they will ever escape from their gilded cage.
Celebrating the release of the new novel Cox, or the Course of Time, translated from the German by Simon Pare and published by Seagull Books, Mr. Ransmayr and Mr. Pare will attend events in Delhi and Kolkata!
Delhi Schedule
Christoph Ransmayr is an award-winning Austrian author whose books have been translated into over 30 languages. His prodigious travels provided the material for Atlas of an Anxious Man (2016), and his novel The Flying Mountain (2018), both published by Seagull Books.
Simon Pare has translated a wide variety of non-fiction such as The Panama Papers and Psychoanalyst Meets Marina Abramovic as well as many novels. His translations for Seagull Books include Christoph Ransmayr's The Flying Mountain, which was longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize and earned him the Straelen Most Promising Translator Prize.
Cox, or The Course of Time: The world's most powerful man, Qiánlóng, Emperor of China, invites the famous eighteenth-century clockmaker Alister Cox to his court in Beijing. There, in the heart of the Forbidden City, the Englishman and his assistants are to build machines that mark the passing of time as a child or a condemned man might experience it, and the many shades of happiness, suffering, love and loss. Mystified by the rituals of a rigidly hierarchical society dominated by an unimaginably wealthy, god-like ruler, Cox musters all his expertise and ingenuity to satisfy the emperor's desires. Finally, Qiánlóng, one of whose many titles is the Lord of Time, requests the construction of a clock capable of measuring eternity—a perpetuum mobile. Seizing this chance to realize a long-held dream and honour the memory of his late, beloved daughter, yet conscious of the impossibility of his task, Cox sets to work. As the court is suspended in a never-ending summer, far from the capital, festering with evil gossip about the monster these foreigners are creating, the Englishmen wonder if they will ever escape from their gilded cage.
Location
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi
3, Kasturba Gandhi Marg
New Delhi 110 001
India
3, Kasturba Gandhi Marg
New Delhi 110 001
India
Location
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi
3, Kasturba Gandhi Marg
New Delhi 110 001
India
3, Kasturba Gandhi Marg
New Delhi 110 001
India