Event EB7
Abdulrazak Gurnah and Juan Gabriel Vásquez in conversation
The Memory of Stories
– Knuden Auditorium
How can we represent a history that was intentionally erased or never recorded by those in power? Tanzanian novelist and Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah and Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vásquez have dedicated a good part of their work to answering that question. Join us in a deeply philosophical exploration of memory, historical gaps and the intersection of global cultures, from Vásquez’s views on the dark corners of the past to Gurnah’s attempt to piece together the fractured memories and missing perspectives of East Africans who lived through German and British colonial rule across his entire body of literary work (including masterpiece novels like Paradise and Afterlives).
Price: £16.00
