Public events
Date Wed. 02.04.2025 | Time 19:00 - 20:30 | Speaker Jonas Lüscher |
Location SQUARE | Price Registration required | Calendar |
An event by Literaturhauses St. Gallen in collaboration with SQUARE at the University of St. Gallen.
Synopsis: An Algerian soldier is caught in the first German gas attack, decides that someone has to put an end to it, stands up, and walks away. In a future Cairo, a stand-up comedian watches an android laugh at her jokes. A Bohemian weaver is replaced by an automated loom, grabs a hammer, and attacks the machine.
What do we, the people of capitalism, dream of? And what about the machines that are increasingly rising against us? In the unique mirror space of this novel, no conflict is ever over, and every story is still possible. Clever and absurd, humorous and sharp, Jonas Lüscher tells, at the height of his craft, of a present that longs to know more about its future (Hanser Verlag 2025).
Jonas Lüscher was born in Switzerland in 1976 and now lives in Munich. His novella Spring of the Barbarians was a bestseller, earning him a spot on the longlist for the German Book Prize and a nomination for the Swiss Book Prize, which he ultimately won for his novel Kraft.
To his Personality in Residence program
