New book: Thomas Pynchon's "Lewy bilet

Literary labyrinths, translation challenges and a world where the grotesque meets political horror. The novel's action begins in 1932. Private detective Hicks McTaggart from Milwaukee receives a suspicious commission that leads him across the Atlantic on the trail of a missing heiress to a fortune. Among spies, gangsters, jazz sounds and increasingly stronger fascist movements, a story unfolds combining noir crime fiction with an eccentric adventure and reflection on the mechanisms of power. Meeting participants will take a closer look at a writer who consistently eludes readers and interpreters. They will talk about how to translate his prose and how the American author's work finds its place in the Polish context. More on the theatre's website