Kosmopolis 2006
III International Festival of Literature
Kosmopolis 06. Slam Poetry
Poetry Slam competition and performance by Saul Williams
Slam poetry began in the mid-nineties and is a form of poetic expression which takes place within the context of a competition, the slam. The markedly social content of the poetry and the fact that texts are created to be recited distinguish slam poetry from traditional poetry. K06 takes a ...
Kosmopolis 06. Abandoning Stereotypes in Women's Prose
Debate with Svetlana Alexiévitx, Lília Kim and Natàlia Tolstaia
Kosmopolis 06. Against Amnesia
Lecture by Vitaly Shentalinsky
At the end of the eighties, Vitaly Shentalinsky studied in depth the archives of the kgb to research dossiers on thousands of writers who had suffered reprisals. The result, The KGB's Literary Archive (1993), is an exhaustive example of the author's interest in documentary literature, a genre ...