Kosmopolis 15. Sebald and Grossman: Parallel Ambitions
Dialogue with David Grossman and Carles Torner
The literary projects of German writer W. G. Sebald and Israeli writer David Grossman are united by the themes they address (memory, migration, travel, holocaust) and their relevance and ambition. Carles Torner talks to the author of master works such as See under: Love and To the End of the Land about the way German and Israeli literature dealt with Nazism in the late 20th century, conflicts between personal memory and collective history, about consciousness and what it means to write in a war zone: writing in an ancient and modern language, and about how to represent the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Participants: David Grossman, Carles Torner
Related to Kosmopolis 2015, Kosmopolis, David Grossman and Carles Torner
20 March 2015