An Existential Ruin
A homeless generation? Vincenzo Latronico’s novel about Anna and Tom, two representatives of Berlin’s creative class, became a great success when it was translated into English in 2025. This spring, Perfection was also published in Norwegian. Latronico meets Morgenbladet’s books editor, Arne Borge, for a conversation about the ideal of authenticity—and about what the future holds for the Berlin hipster.
Giovedì 4 giugno alle ore 17.00 a Kulturhuset Banken, Cafeen
On Capturing the Spirit of the Times
Can fiction capture the spirit of the times? In I hvalens buk and Perfection, Hilde Rød Larsen and Vincenzo Latronico explore the lives of people living at the heart of our era—an era shaped by the climate crises, globalization, social media, and the search for meaning. Both attempt to capture a moment in contemporary life. The conversation revolves around how the novel can depict the structures and moods of the present, and how a close look at the intimate and personal can also encompass the global.sonal can also encompass the global.