At Jaipur Literary Festival’s Words are Bridges Series—Jonas Lüscher in conversation with Tess Lewis and Urvashi Butalia.

Register and log onto online.jaipurliteraturefestival.org on Thursday, August 26, 2021, at 930 am EDT, at the virtual Durbar Hall!

Swiss-German writer Jonas Lüscher’s work, Kraft, is a social satire on our technological and consumption obsessed age and the roots of neoliberal fantasies. Translated into English by celebrated writer Tess Lewis, the novel explores a German Professor's attempts at winning a competition to be held at Silicon Valley. In a session evaluating world-weary European skepticism and irrational American optimism, the writer and translator give us a glimpse into the process of translating this text and the paradox of ideas and inquiry in a world dominated by the market.In conversation with writer and publisher Urvashi Butalia