JURI FELSEN: »GETÄUSCHT«

In the organizer's words:

DANA VOWINCKEL, MORITZ TREUENFELS

Moderation: Manuela Reichart

A man falls in love and is rejected. The now rediscovered novel by Juri Felsen, the "Russian Proust", provides deep insights into the emotional world of a disappointed man - sophisticated, ironic and highly modern.

A Russian emigrant finds himself in the vibrant Paris of the 1920s. There he is supposed to look after Lyolya, a young, fun-loving woman who has also fled Russia. He falls head over heels in love
He falls head over heels in love, but Lyolya leads a life that does not conform to the social conventions of the time. The narrator is plunged into deep heartache, which he begins to analyze in his diary. Was he deceived by Lyolya?

Juri Felsen (1894 - 1943) was one of the leading writers of his generation, influenced by Marcel Proust, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. Murdered by the Nazis, his work was long forgotten and can now be experienced in German in Rosemarie Tietze's magnificent translation (Kiepenheuer & Witsch).

The celebrated author Dana Vowinckel ("Gewässer im Ziplock"), who wrote the afterword to "Getäuscht", will provide insights into this psychologically finely spun and repeatedly ironically fractured novel, Moritz Treuenfels (Residenztheater) will read excerpts.

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ADMISSION: EURO 16.- / 10.- LIVE STREAMING: Really live, no later access. Links to the streams at www.literaturhaus-muenchen.de, always on the respective event page (click directly, without further access code)