A morning with Judith Schalansky

Each of Judith Schalansky's books is a journey where imagination is the fuel. In the Atlas of Remote Islands (Penguin Books, 2010), she told us microhistories of some fifty of the most remote islands on the planet. They were so plausible that it seemed that she had stepped on all of them and, in reality, she had not visited a single one, she built everything from home, with his capacity to fabulate. In An Inventory of Losses (New Directions, 2020), the book she is now presenting, she has devoted herself to inventing memories and imagining stories associated with extinct animals, lost islands vanished cities or mythical paintings that once existed, but were finally swallowed by the flames of a fire.

Accompanied by fellow writer Inés Macpherson, Schalansky will talk about the power of imagination to invent possible futures or alternative worlds, but also to think of a different present or evoke the past and make it as or more "real" than the real past. With Schalansky we will discover the power of writing and take stock of the many uses we can make of imagination in our daily lives.