New York: BULGARIAN FICTION (NY)GHTS WITH GEORGI GOSPODINOV

September 23, 2015 at Bulgarian Consulate General in New York.

SOZOPOL FICTION SEMINARS’ FACULTY MEMBER GEORGI GOSPODINOV IN NEW YORK!


Eric Becker (Editor at Words Wthout Borders) and Milena Deleva (Elizabeth Kostova Foundation) in conversation with the acclaimed Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov on his latest novel The Physics of Sorrow and other recent fiction and non–fiction works (Open Letter Books, 2015).

The novel has been a finalist for four international literary prizes, has received three national awards, has been published into nine languages and has been widely reviewed by Anglophone media.
A recent New Yorker coverage of the novel reads “December, 2010, The Economist published an article on “the geography of happiness” which declared Bulgaria—at that time (along with Romania) the newest, and perhaps most maligned, member of the E.U.—“the saddest place in the world.” Almost exactly a year later, Georgi Gospodinov, Bulgaria’s best-known writer, published his second novel, “The Physics of Sorrow.” In interviews, Gospodinov positioned the book as, in part, a response to the Economist article and to broader clichés about the Eastern European temperament: “Ultimately my protagonist is trying to tell a story about precisely this place, the saddest place, and to cope with his own sadnesses. Or at least to put them in order and describe them.”


Please join us to meet the author and get signed copies of his books over a glass of wine. Works in English and in Bulgarian will be available for sale.

With the support of the Bulgarian Cultural Salon in New York.

Other New York appearances of Georgi Gospodinov this month:
1. The Brooklyn Book Fair (http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/authors/georgi–gospodinov);
 2) the Community Book Store (http://communitybookstore.net/events/?s=gospodinov) 

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