Chicken farms in France, a young butcher in a small Finnish town, an idealistic purveyor of fine meats in the Netherlands. Three new European novels stage the act of slaughter: as ecological dystopia, as a reckoning with the meat industry, as an exploration of sensual awakening. Munir Hachemi, Mariia Niskavaara, and Manik Sarkar discuss with their German translators the literariness of a craft in which the living body meets the dead and offer insights into the transformative power of the art of translation.
In cooperation with TOLEDO.
With Munir Hachemi, Elina Kritzokat, Ruth Löbner, Mariia Niskavaara, Manik Sarkar, Matthias Strobel
Moderated by Karolina Golimowska
In English, with readings in Finnish, Dutch, and Spanish