14.07. – 17.07. 2022
“I would prefer not to” – at the Literaricum Lech you practice the art of refusal.
Apparently one can’t get rid of Bartleby in Lech. Melville’s Bartleby was already the focus of discussions at the Philosophicum 2017 with the topic “Courage to be lazy”.
Now the artistic director of the Literaricum Lech, Nicola Steiner, has made Hermann Melville’s work from 1853 the programmatic focus of this year’s Literaricum Lech: Bartleby is a literary figure of refusal. He rejects every offer to escape from his monotonous life as a copyist with the sentence “I would prefer not to”.
How would this character fit into our working and social world today? This is what this year’s Literaricum Lech is about. The writer and journalist Elke Heidenreich will hold the opening lecture. Thomas Sarbacher reads from Melville’s Bartleby. And the former head of the Goethe Institute in Warsaw, Christoph Baumann, will address “life in the office” and the modern world of work and its impositions in his lecture in fashionable Lech.
Perhaps he will also get to the bottom of the reasons for the labor shortage in tourism…
Literaricum Lech 2022
Lech, various locations
14.07. – 17.07. 2022
www.lechzuers.com
