BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260512T130804Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20160519T153000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20160519T163000 SUMMARY:Posthumous Life: Translation\, Politics\, and Spaces of Deception UID:20260513T093155Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Solitude 3\, Stuttgart\, Germany\, 70197 DESCRIPTION:

»\;To have lived is not enough&hellip\;«\; Beckett makes his characters say\, »\;&hellip\;we have to talk about it.«\; Why is there this need to talk about our own lives or the lives of others? This is a question that every biography or autobiography implicitly asks. In a sense\, all such writing can use Pessoa&rsquo\;s title for his great unclassifiable text The Book of Disquiet as its subtitle. It is a disquiet that comes from a feeling of incompleteness when a life is being translated into a text: quite obviously when the writing is inadequate\; more subtly when it is too successful\, in which event&mdash\;to take a famous example&mdash\;Samuel Johnson&rsquo\;s life becomes inseparable from Boswell&rsquo\;s Life of Johnson. Is biography then\, in spite of the best intentions\, always a form of betrayal\, as has often been asserted of translation? Or\, is it the duplicity of space&mdash\;the folds of writing and temporality on one hand and the conflicting layers of socio-political life on the other&mdash\;that makes it so? Is it the case that what biography demonstrates is the monstrous reality of »\;posthumous life«\; and its multiple contradictions? (»\;Do you believe in the life to come?«\; one Beckett character asks\; and another answers: »\;Mine has always been that«\;.) In addressing these issues\, biography brings us face to face with some of the most paradoxical questions surrounding writing and politics in the spaces of deception.

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