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On Dora Kellner, Walter Benjamin and the biography of a hotel
Hans Ulrich Obrist interviews French-Algerian writer and philosopher Hélène Cixous.
Two vastly different books — one a picaresque tale, the other a dystopian meditation — both recount a transition from human to animal or from animal to human.
On two tales of racial metamorphosis, salted or sugared, one hundred years apart.
Not the nightmare one might instinctively expect. Franz Kafka and Stig Dagerman on parenthood vs. educatorhood: who can educate a child?
« He rolled down the window, went back to honking the horn, and started waving my underpants out the window. »
« What if all fictional characters from novels continue to dwell somewhere, just like the dead? » Sewn together, the fragmented narratives of Daniela Hodrová’s City of Torment (Trýznivé město) make something deeply European.