Reading with Michal Hvorecký

Right-wing populist parties and ideologies are increasingly gaining influence in the European Union. This is particularly evident in the example of Slovakia, where an anti-democratic political and cultural restructuring is progressing. This is being countered by initiatives for greater media literacy: Fact checks against fake news are intended to limit the impact of right-wing populist propaganda.

As part of the event, Michal Hvorecký will read from his novels:

"Troll" (2018): Eastern Europe in the near future. An army of trolls dominates the internet, commenting, inciting and steering public opinion. Two friends decide to disrupt the system from the inside - and in the process find themselves caught up in the uncontrollability of the network world and at the limits of their mutual trust.

"Tahiti Utopia" (2021): A literary thought experiment: what would the world look like if Great Hungary still existed and Slovakia had disappeared? Hvorecký creates the scenario of a Slovakian society in exile on Tahiti - a paradisiacal island that simultaneously becomes a projection screen for loss, identity and longing.

Speaker: Michal Hvorecký , writer and journalist; Bratislava
Moderator: Wolfram Tschiche, theologian, publicist and philosopher