Event overview
GLITS (Goldsmiths Literature Seminar)
Witty and elegiac, Philosophical Toys takes the reader on a tour of fetishism, late capitalist culture, Buñuel’s films, psychoanalysis, Alzheimer’s disease, as well as the avatars of belonging to two cultures, an experience increasingly shared by a myriad of expatriates.
Newsflash: Philosophical Toys multi-media story at El País ... Two critics chose Philosophical Toys for 3:AMMagazine Best Books of 2015, Top Ten Reads … ‘Medina is one of the most remarkable contemporary authors in London’ … Public Books ‘Medina’s novel confidently defies categorization, and, for the most part, skilfully navigates this jostling melee of elements ...’ ‘Outstanding’ 3:AMMagazine ***** ‘Powerful & mysterious’ Kirkus Reviews ‘Exuberant, intelligent, touching and playful, Philosophical Toys is a joyful invitation to us, to love all the things that we are …' The Nation
A prose both spare and lush, a commendable tension about the enterprise Will Self
A shockingly beautiful innovative voice in which the sublime and laughter are perfectly matched Andrew Gallix
Award-winning Susana Medina is the author of Philosophical Toys (Dalkey Archive Press, 2015), offspring of which are the short films Buñuel’s Philosophical Toys and Leather-bound Stories (co-directed with Derek Ogbourne). Other books include Red Tales Cuentos rojos (bilingual edition, 2012, co-translated with Rosie Marteau, Araña editorial) and Souvenirs del Accidente (Germanía, 2004). She has been awarded the prestigious Max Aub Short Story International Prize, was featured in Best European Fiction 2014, Dalkey Archive Press and her thirty-page epic ‘Poem 66,’translated by R. Marteau, was the runner-up in Good Morning Menagerie Translation Contest and will be published by the USA press in December 2016. She also has curated international art shows, written art catalogues, exhibited at Tate Modern and collaborated with artists.
(Author's portrait by Paul Louis Archer)
For more information:
http://www.susanamedina.net/Philosophical_Toys/Philosophical_Toys.html
Dates & times
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| 27 Oct 2016 | 6:30pm - 8:00pm |
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