Continuing today and running throughout the autumn at London’s Southbank Centre is a series of events, curated by Will Self, which explores the legacy and provocation of literary Modernism on contemporary writing.
Events today:
• Leading novelist and literary critic Gabriel Josipovici asks whether contemporary fiction has lived up to the experimentation and verve of earlier Modernist writing
• A discussion of the life of experimental British writer B S Johnson, with Jonathan Coe, author of Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B S Johnson, along with Julia Jordan and Philip Tew, joint editors of Johnson’s work
Other events in the series include:
• An evening exploring the legacy of David Foster Wallace’s writing, with his biographer D T Max and writer and comedian David Baddiel
• Jacqueline Rose, one of the great contemporary writers on the subjects of literature, psychoanalysis and politics, examining the issue of subjectivity in a lecture entitled The Unfinished Project of Modernism
• John Gray discussing Enlightenment dreams and Modernist nightmares with Will Self
• Slavoj Žižek discussing his new book The Year of Dreaming Dangerously, an analysis of the riots and revolutions that swept the world last year
More information on the series at the Southbank centre website
