In dialogue with Álvaro de los Ángeles.
Thursday, January 30 at 7 p.m. at the Fine Arts Auditorium of the UPV (*).
Free entry.
(*) Synchronous online meeting.
Benjamin Labatut became a publishing phenomenon withTerrible greeneryTranslated into 32 languages, it won the Galileo Prize and the Santiago Municipal Prize, and was a finalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award for Translated Literature. Of this work it was said: “Extraordinary… Ingenious, complex and deeply disturbing” (John Banville); “A disconcerting journey into the delusions of the most brilliant scientists of the twentieth century” (Jaime G. Mora),ABC). Labatut has subsequently publishedThe stone of madnessan extraordinary essay that follows in the footsteps of unreason, andMANIACa colossal and fascinating book: “Monstrously good. It reads like a dark foundational myth about modern technology, but with the pace of a thriller” (Mark Haddon).