Andrzej Tichý & L. T. Fisk
Saturday 17 February 2024
7pm

Händelseboken (The Book of Events) by Andrzej Tichý:
In Lindängen, Malmö, the girl Alicja kills herself with pills in a playground. The petty criminal Mink discovers her, but doesn’t seek help because he doesn’t want to deal with the authorities. A few days later, he lies passed out in a stairwell. Zygmunt Pereira, a radical writer in decline, lets him sleep it off on his couch. Far away, near the end of the world, Egea and Svatopluk are enjoying peace and quiet, grateful to have left violence behind. Their lives are somehow connected with the cook Antje Schmidt, her son Johnny Schmidt Smith, the translator and flautist Tania Balbine, a composer named Kowalski and the financial consultant Samuel Haddad. There is also the angel Metatron, the storyteller Scheherazade, visions of Swedish forced repatriation and the collapse of global capitalism in 2128. But who is able to see the whole picture?

Andrzej Tichý reads from Händelseboken, L. T. Fisk plays the pedal organ and electronics, and the evening is accompanied by music that appears in various ways in the book.

The reading will be in Swedish.