Events
19.02.2018, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Jenny Erpenbeck at Mohammed V University
Rabat
Author Jenny Erpenbeck will be making a guest appearance at the Department of German Language and Literature of Mohammed V University in Rabat as part of Litrix.de’s "Arabic World 2015–18" focus. She will read from her novel "Go, Went, Gone," nominated for the 2015 German Book Prize.
"How can you bear the passing of time when you are forced to do nothing? How can you cope with losing loved ones? Who passes on your legacy? Richard, a retired professor, has a chance encounter with asylum seekers in the middle of Berlin, and this gives him the idea of searching for answers to his questions where no one else would look: among those young refugees from Africa who have been stranded in Berlin and condemned to wait for years. And suddenly this world looks at him, the man living in Old Europe, and might well know better than he himself who he really is. In her inimitable way, Jenny Erpenbeck has told a story of looking the other way and taking a look, of death and war, of perpetual waiting and of everything that is lying hidden beneath the surface."
(Text: Albrecht Knaus Verlag)
Salah Helal’s translation of "Go, Went, Gone" is being published in 2018 by Sefsafa publishing house in Cairo with support from Litrix.de.
The event is moderated by Dr. Redoine Hasbane, professor at the Department of German Language and Literature of Mohammed V University in Rabat.
Rabat, Mohammed V University
Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines
3 Av. Ibn Batouta
10 000 Rabat
"How can you bear the passing of time when you are forced to do nothing? How can you cope with losing loved ones? Who passes on your legacy? Richard, a retired professor, has a chance encounter with asylum seekers in the middle of Berlin, and this gives him the idea of searching for answers to his questions where no one else would look: among those young refugees from Africa who have been stranded in Berlin and condemned to wait for years. And suddenly this world looks at him, the man living in Old Europe, and might well know better than he himself who he really is. In her inimitable way, Jenny Erpenbeck has told a story of looking the other way and taking a look, of death and war, of perpetual waiting and of everything that is lying hidden beneath the surface."
(Text: Albrecht Knaus Verlag)
Salah Helal’s translation of "Go, Went, Gone" is being published in 2018 by Sefsafa publishing house in Cairo with support from Litrix.de.
The event is moderated by Dr. Redoine Hasbane, professor at the Department of German Language and Literature of Mohammed V University in Rabat.
Rabat, Mohammed V University
Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines
3 Av. Ibn Batouta
10 000 Rabat