The International Library: Attila Bartis on The End

This event has been canceled.

Make a coffee date to join us in welcoming Romanian-Hungarian writer Attila Bartis, one of the most accomplished and inventive members of the contemporary Eastern European literary vanguard, for a conversation on his bold, monumental novel The End with translator Judith Sollosy. Unspooling like a roll of film, The End captures in frames of language the faces and places of András’ memory, which together form a fever-dream collage of an artist’s psyche. With vibrant precision and fluid dialogue, Attila Bartis blends a sprawling family saga with 20th-century European history and offers an unflinchingly lucid yet boundlessly compassionate account of psychological devastation under authoritarianism.

This event is a hybrid event. Bartis will appear in person at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn (1:30pm ET). Sollosy will be joining remotely. Live remote viewings will be held at the American Library in Paris in Paris (19h30 CEST) and at Center for the Art of Translation in San Francisco.

About The International Library

This event is part of The International Library, a series launched in collaboration with the American Library in Paris(opens in a new tab) and the Center for Fiction(opens in a new tab) in Brooklyn which will offer conversations across time, place, and language. The International Library celebrates the live diffusion of in-person conversations in the hope of connecting new audiences across land and sea for a collective, intercultural experience. These conversations will broach deeper questions about writing and translation as we learn to think critically about how stories are told, investigating the points of view, the timing of the translations, and the intended or assumed audiences as well as inspiration, philosophy, and craft.Coffee, crossiants and a fever dream collage of an artists psyche with Romanian-Hungarian writer and photographer Attila Bartis