Please join us for a screening of the documentary film Finding Babel (2016), followed by a Q&A with its director, David Novack. Run time: 89 minutes 75 years after subversive Soviet writer Isaac Babel’s execution for supposed criticism of the Communist Party, his grandson works to piece together the story of the grandfather he never knew and understand the author’s unique artistic style. David…
Posts tagged as “Literature”
A lecture by Hana Gruendler, Kunsthistorisches Institut/Max Planck Institut, Florence Drawing on Wittgenstein, Thomas Bernhard and the history of psychiatric architecture, Hana Gruendler will analyze the notion of physical and psychic borders, not least in contemporary discussions of alterity and migration. From Deutsches Haus NYU.
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading by award-winning translator, writer, and editor Peter Wortsman of Konundrum: Selected Prose of Franz Kafka. He will be joined by Tess Lewis to discuss the release of his new translation of Kafka’s short prose. In this new selection and translation, Peter Wortsman mines Franz Kafka’s entire opus of short prose – including works published in the author’s brief lifetime, stories published posthumously, journals, and…
Zahia Rahmani, in conversation with Madeleine Dobie To RSVP, please click here. This moving tale of imprisonment and escape, persecution and loss, is narrated by the daughter of an alleged Harki, an Algerian soldier who fought for the French during the Algerian War for Independence. It was the fate of such men to be twice exiled, first in their homeland…