Podcast: Esther Kinsky, why should we still go to the cinema? | Dichtung & Wahrheit #8

The observation and description of landscapes – usually foreign ones – is characteristic of Esther Kinsky’s texts. In this episode of our podcast, the author and translator talks about what the cinema means to her, about the peculiarities of translating and writing in a foreign country and about the liberating feeling of homelessness. Using Hungary as an example, the conversation with Laura de Weck also deals with the effects of right-wing populism on society, the dark sides of our anonymous present, and why it is important – not least after the period of isolation during the COVID19 pandemic – to participate in public life (again).

In her current book Seeing Farther, Esther Kinsky tells of a journey to an almost extinct place in south-eastern Hungary, where resignation reigns and the cinema has long since closed. Her own passion for cinema moves the narrator to bring the »Mozi« (cinema in Hungarian) back to life.

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