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In Flight: Kafka, Fiction & Reality

Jewish Book Week

Sun 1 Mar
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In Flight: Kafka, Fiction & Reality

Jewish Book Week

Gabriel Josipovici speaker
David Herman chair

Prize-winning author and literary theorist Gabriel Josipovici draws lines between fiction and real life in his 2024 novel-cum-biography duo ‘Partita and A Winter in Zürau’.


Fiction and non-fiction: two sides of the same coin – or are they?

In Partita, Gabriel Josipovici’s most enigmatic novel, Michael Penderecki flees a death threat, a body in a bathtub, and Yves Montand’s voice. In A Winter in Zürau, Kafka escapes a stifling office, a domineering father, and an insistent fiancée.

Josipovici joins Jewish Chronicle chief fiction reviewer David Herman to explore the interplay of fact, imagination, and flight.

This event will last approximately 1 hour, with no interval.

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Food & Drink

Rotunda Bar & Restaurant
Rotunda, situated on the ground floor of Kings Place, offers a unique dining and drinking experience alongside Regent’s Canal. The concert bar in the venue foyer will also be open for select events.

Green & Fortune Café
Recently re-furbished and now open with a new look, the Green & Fortune Café is open for selected concerts. Serving hot and cold food and drinks, including sandwiches, salads, soup, stew and a pie of the day, alongside a choice of cakes made by the on-site bakery team. See here for selected concert dates and standard opening hours.

Gabriel Josipovici

Gabriel Josipovici was born in Nice in 1940 of Russo-Italian, Romano-Levantine parents. His plays have been performed throughout Britain and on radio in Britain, France and Germany, and his work has been translated into the major European languages and Arabic.

David Herman

David Herman was a TV producer for twenty years and, for the past twenty years, has worked as a freelance writer, writing more than a thousand articles, reviews and essays for The New Statesman, Prospect, The Guardian and a wide range of Jewish publications including The Jewish Chronicle, Jewish Renaissance and The Jewish Quarterly.

Date:Sun 1 Mar
Start time:6.30pm (Doors: 6pm)
Venue:Limehouse Room
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