Samanta Schweblin - Hundert Augen

In the organizer's words:

Schweblin's view of life is often eerie and disturbing: with her atmospherically dense and always laconic texts, she transports us into strange, macabre worlds that seem familiar, but at the same time irritate us with tiny details, deviate from normality with small shifts, lead us astray and make things appear in unexpected perspectives.

In her 2020 novel "Hundert Augen", translated by Marianne Gareis, the author, who was born in Buenos Aires in 1978 and now lives in Berlin, remains true to herself. She confronts her readers with the challenges of the present by using robotic cuddly toys to expose our technology-driven present, our dependencies and desires, and poses questions about the future of media.