Reading and Discussion with Catalin Dorian Florescu
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Mar 06, 2012
from 06:00 PM to 09:00 PM |
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| Where | swissnex Boston, 420 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02318 |
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Florescu’s novel “Jacob Beschliesst Zu Lieben” (Jacob decides to Love) won the Swiss Book Prize 2011 and became a best-seller straight away. The renowned Swiss author with Romanian roots will read extracts from his latest novel and discuss the reading with the audience. The reading will take place in German, English translations will be handed out. The event will be moderated by Dr. Kurt Fendt, MIT.
Light refreshments will be served following the reading.
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Catalin Dorian Florescu ‘s new novel, Jacob Decides to Love, has catapulted him into the front rank of German literature today.
There is hardly any other writer around who writes with such warmth, sensuality, and power, whose voice is both relaxed and fearless, spanning the centuries, and who does not shrink from brutality and cruelty, nor from tenderness or nostalgia. What a storyteller!
Florescu observes every detail, every nuance, and makes his description of rural life come to life like a painting of Breughel, with all its horrors and beauty…
He has written a great novel about a brutal century and a hopeless life which still never sinks into hopelessness. He has transformed it into a real book of love. He deserves our admiration. Elke Heidenreich, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
