Writers List
18:00 Dialogue between literatures
Valencia and Budapest,
two novelistic cities
Joan Francesc Mira and Gy�rgy
Konr�d, both committed
citizens and narrators of their
lives, will share their personal
and literary histories that offer
various parallels - such as the
experience of dictatorship and
dissidence; a vision of the city
as literary material; and the
cultivation of both essay and
novel as forms of expression.
Participants
Joan F. Mira, Gy�rgy Konr�d
Moderator
Ruthard St�blein
19:30 The classics
Bearn (Bearn, or
the Dolls House)
by Lloren� Villalonga
To say of Bearn that it is
the Catalan equivalent of
The Leopard is almost a
commonplace. Bearn expresses
the conflicts within an archaic
society that is disappearing, but
it is much more than that. It is
an example of a great work by a
mature writer, of the literature
that emerges when an author
pours into it all his experience,
his training, his mastery of the
language, his knowledge, his
life. A masterpiece that is an
essential introduction to the
roots of modern Mallorca.
Presented by
Johannes Kabatek
Reader
Thomas Br�ckner
Music
Joan Moll
20:30 Contemporary literature
in translation LIVE
Poetry Night
Paraula de jazz
(Talking jazz)
When the great jazz singer
Billie Holiday read Strange
Fruit, the poem that Lewis
Allen had written especially
for her, she decided to set to
music those verses that so well
refl ected the tragedy of the Black
people of the southern states
of the USA. Today we offer
another example of the fertile
relationship between jazz and
poetry: the poet Joan Margarit
offers us, with Paraula de jazz,
poems that tell about jazz, of
suffering, struggle, freedom
and of love in strange lands.
Participants
Joan Margarit, Rai Ferrer
(bass), Xavier Monge (piano),
Perico Sambeat (sax)
Presented by
Thomas Br�ckner