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U29 - For everyone under 29

When the Canadian author Alice Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013, it was also a tribute to a genre that tends to be ignored by the local literary establishment: the narrative or - to put it in terms of a greater openness towards this short form in the Anglo-Saxon world - the story. Alice Munro was thus honored as a master of a discipline whose basic trait is to tell great stories in a relatively small space, all the more condensed. Her stories are characterized by realism, profundity, laconicism and open endings. They often revolve around female protagonists, which is why we will also look at them from the perspective of what the French literary theorist Hélène Cixous calls "écriture feminine". The - in Munro's case not without controversy - relationship between work and biography will also play a role. This time, the culinary accompaniment to our discussion will be directly inspired by the texts under discussion.

With the support of the Kulturkessel funding initiative