zwischen/miete nrw mit Paulina Czienskowski

In the organizer's words:

The next zwischen/miete is coming up, we're bringing literature into your living room, kitchen table or hallway. Paulina Czienskowski is our guest in Münsterland and will be reading from her novel Dem Mond geht es gut. In the novel, she writes about a sad and beautiful mother-daughter story.

A young woman looks at the world differently after the birth of her child. Words fade as love and fantasies of loss take over her. Only now does she realize how mute her mother and grandmother are in life. How they have both failed to tell their lives. She approaches the speechless riddles with a fumbling precision. The protagonist traces her life sensually and relentlessly amidst the fog of memories. After all, how can a child know where it is going if it doesn't know where it came from?

In her new novel, Paulina Czienskowski shows in cyclical movements what it means to become the echo of generations: Three women, three mothers and a new life.

"This is a book about a mother, and a book that fathers should read. This is a book about a daughter, a book about the body, shame, coming to strength and being weak. It is a book about being a child. It is a book in which someone finds language where otherwise there is only feeling." Saša Stanišić

"Every child has a mother, every mother was once a child: Paulina Czienskowski turns these basic facts into tender, brutal, wide-awake poetry." Theresia Enzensberger

Price information:

Admission + welcome drink