June 28 poster
And a New Yorker review of the book: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-bulgarian-sadness-of-georgi-gospodinov
Poster design: Otilia Baraboi.
Friday, June 26, 2020
The Bulgarian Sadness
And a New Yorker review of the book: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-bulgarian-sadness-of-georgi-gospodinov
June Zoom-Meeting
June
28
A
discussion of Georgi Gospodinov's The Physics of Sorrow with his translator
Angela Rodel as a special guest.
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Previous Zoom-meeting:
Newcomers
with
translator Michael Biggins
The
three-part autobiographical series begins in 1938 with the expulsion of
the Kovačič family from their home in Switzerland and their settlement in the
father’s home country of Slovenia, then the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. It is
narrated by a ten-year-old boy, a perennial outsider, a boy who never fit in in
either Switzerland or Slovenia and was viewed with suspicion by adults and his
peers. The work includes haunting, deeply thought-provoking descriptions of
this estrangement as seen through the eyes of the child – in many ways a naïve
boy, yet one who was forced to become an adult at an early age.
Newcomers are
Kovačič's central work on the vortex of World War II and the post-war period,
covering all the political, ideological and social conflicts of the 20th
century and standing as a tragic chronicle of the recent past. A
canonical, extensive and difficult autobiographical work, Newcomers is
considered a literary masterpiece of the 20th century and is oftentimes
compared to the oeuvres of popular modern authors such as Elena Ferrante and
Karl Ove Knausgård, as well as classic authors, among them Nabokov and Tolstoy.
Chosen
as the best Slovenian novel of the 20th century by Slovenian literary
critics in a 2000 survey.
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