Christine Montalbetti [France] Hotel Komaba Eminence (with Haruki Murakami)
is a novel about a few years in the life and mysterious disappearance of Veronika Zarnik
West finds in Mandy/Michaela an irrepressible and unpredictable guide to the mysteries of the universe
vividly depicting the absurdity of a repressive political regime with exceptional daring and humor
" overlapping the workaday world: a place where libraries can turn into jungles
Making Figures Scandinavia Christine Montalbetti [France] Hotel KomabaAs a species and as a culture, we recognize ourselves by our capacity for possession, so that personhood is made equivalent to ownership. If, however, the way in which we imagine objects predisposes our behavior toward them, art can encourage us to reorient how we comport ourselves in a world that is not meant to be owned, that is not even meant for us. To frustrate the desolation of avarice, we must enrich our view of things, and Making FIgures takes