An American Fugue

Prominent Greek writer and recipient of the International Literature Award from the US National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) will hold a book talk/reading. The novel, American Fugue, opens with the protagonist, a writer, on a flight from Greece to the U.S. He is at the lowest point in his life, so when he receives an unexpected invitation to participate in a literary program at a university in the U.S., he takes the opportunity to leave his past behind and make a new beginning. Arriving in the “New World”, he begins an experiment with himself as the subject—the “canary in the mine.” His journey, a flight through both the interior and external landscape, follows the pattern of inexorable movement and increasing complexity of the fugue.

Speaker: 202 Luce