Lesung - "Sieben Sekunden Luft" von Luca Mael Milsch

In the organizer's words:

Reading and discussion with Luca Mael Milsch

Luca Mael Milsch reads from his debut novel "Sieben Sekunden Luft" (HAYMON 2024)

Accompanied by a talk and drinks!

Moderation: Sophia Bahl

The complexity of being human

How to exist in a system that makes it almost impossible to breathe?

Like every morning, Selah sits on the veranda and waits in the silence. Three months have passed since Selah called in sick to disappear. But the desired solitude unexpectedly becomes a driving force for the past and the repressed: having grown up in modest circumstances, Selah's relationship with her mother is characterized by pressure of expectation, silence and shame - they accompany Selah into adulthood. When her mother is dying and Selah has long been living with her own family, the still gaping wounds become apparent. There are unwanted experiences and decisions that cling to her skin like phantoms. A debt to be repaid, even if Selah doesn't know to whom. And beliefs that are so deeply rooted that shaking them off is a life task.

A polyphonic novel about the search for one's own story
How do you behave when the whole universe is trying to deny your existence? When you first have to learn to deal with yourself, but also with everything that has happened, your own memories, which you almost can't trust. And this under the social conditions of misogyny, heteronormativity, queer hostility, social and financial pressure?
Luca Mael Milsch writes about fragility that becomes strength, about a world full of ambivalences, about the longing for a self-determined position in a rigid structure. And about what remains of us when everything else disappears.

Luca Mael Milsch is a freelance translator, editor, curator, moderator and author. After studying literature, Milsch worked in the program management of the Literary Salon Hannover. In addition to numerous translations, most recently "Happy End" (S. Fischer Verlag) by Andrew Sean Greer, publications in anthologies, literary journals and magazines, Milsch wrote the debut novel "Sieben Sekunden Luft". Milsch was a fellow of the Literary Colloquium Berlin's prose workshop for an excerpt from it. A polyphonic, haunting text that searches for sounds in a seemingly unalterable space of silence.

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