Ilja Trojanow has just sat on the podium of the Literaturhaus at the Munich Literature Festival as a great traveler and connoisseur of India and, among other things, cleverly classified the words of his colleague Arundhati Roy. Now an evening there is entirely dedicated to his own new book: “A Thousand and One Tomorrows” (S.Fischer) is the name of the current novel by the award-winning writer who lives in Vienna.
Behind the title, which suggests an oriental fantasy, lies a science fiction experiment that is ambitious in terms of content and aesthetics: the heroine of the novel is a so-called “chronaut”; she can – supported by artificial intelligence – travel through time and space into the past and subsequently intervene in the course of events. That sounds utopian – and that’s how it’s intended.
Ilja Trojanow, reading with live music by the “Ensemble Modern”, Tue., 19. Dec., 7 p.m., Literaturhaus, Salvatorplatz, www.literaturhaus-muenchen.de