[Unicum] Zilahy Péter a Kongresszusi Könyvtárban

Lecture: "Time and Timelessness: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Time* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)," Thursday, June 1 at 3:00-4:00 PM

Please join the Rare Book and Special Collections Division as Library of Congress Kluge Fellow Péter Zilahy discusses time and the novel.

The way we look at time is deeply rooted in our habits and lifestyle. We observe changes and we call it time. Some of us do it more poetically than others, but we talk about time, write about time, watch movies about time and run out of time, all the time. We are who we are because of the way we share time. To be outside of time would be to be outside of society and language. In a dictatorship, history is cut off from the past and people are forced to live in an eternal present. This perspective is curiously close to notions of great philosophers and scientists writing on time from Parmenides to Nietzsche and Einstein. Zilahy's talk will focus on narratives of time and timelessness through the filter of art, science and philosophy, and will sweep through the works of Dostoevsky, Kafka, and Nabokov among others.

Péter Zilahy is one of Hungary's most exciting, diverse writers. His genre-defying novel, The Last Window Giraffe has been translated into twenty-two languages. It has won multiple awards, among them 'The Book of the Year Prize' in Ukraine and is often cited as one of the inspirations for the Orange Revolution. Zilahy also did a Moth Mainstage Show at Symphony Space and he recently joined Anthony Bourdain for an episode of CNN`s Parts Unknown. Presently, he is a returning fellow at the Kluge Center of the Library of Congress.

The lecture is free and open to the public and will be held from 3:00 to 4:00 pm in the Rosenwald Room, LJ-205.

Please request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at 7-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.

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