The US Embassy Literature Series presents Jonatham Lethem

13. April 2014 in Berlin

The US Embassy Literature Series presents Jonatham Lethem.

Jonathan Lethem reads from his novel Dissident Gardens (Der Garten der Dissidenten, Klett Cotta Verlag, 2014)

Two extraordinary women: Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an unreconstructed Communist who savages neighbors, family, and political comrades with the ferocity of her personality and the absolutism of her beliefs. Her precocious and willful daughter, Miriam, equally passionate in her activism, flees Rose's influence to embrace the dawning counterculture of Greenwich Village.

These women cast spells over the men in their lives: Rose's aristocratic German Jewish husband, Albert; her cousin, the feckless chess hustler Lenny Angrush; Cicero Lookins, the brilliant son of her black cop lover; Miriam's (slightly fraudulent) Irish folksinging husband, Tommy Gogan; their bewildered son, Sergius. Flawed and idealistic, Lethem's characters struggle to inhabit the utopian dream in an America where radicalism is viewed with bemusement, hostility, or indifference.

As the decades pass-from the parlor communism of the '30s, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, ragged '70s communes, the romanticization of the Sandinistas, up to the Occupy movement of the moment-we come to understand through Lethem's extraordinarily vivid storytelling that the personal may be political, but the political, even more so, is personal.

Quelle: kulturkurier / Kulturclub.de

Wo ist das Event?
English Theatre Berlin
Fidicinstr. 40
10965 Berlin
Wann ist das Event?
Sonntag, 13. April 2014
20:00 Uhr
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