Mette Edvardsen “Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine” – living books as letters (2020). Now fully booked!
Information
Like books, personal letters are also a solitary affair. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the living books have not been available for readings since last winter, however, a new element has emerged in the project. The living books have started to write letters to one other. These handwritten letters sent via post transmit a similar intimacy as that conveyed between a book and reader (or listener). You can now experience living books as personally written letters in the post.
To receive a letter, please send an email to: letters@timehasfallenasleepintheafternoonsunshine.be
You will receive a reply with a list of ’books’ to choose from, and further instructions.
Books are available in several languages: English, Norwegian, French, Spanish, German and Italian.
See lists of books at the bottom of this page.
Time has fallen asleep on the afternoon sunshine, a concept by Mette Edvardsen, is a part of osloBIENNALEN FIRST EDITION.
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Participants (letter writing)
Adriano Wilfert Jensen
Alexandra Napier
Andrea Rodrigo
Bruno De Wachter
Caroline Daish
Emmilou Rößling
Irena Radmanovic
Isadora Angelini
Julie Pfleiderer
Justine Maxelon
Katja Dreyer
Kristien Van den Brande
Léa Poiré
Marit Ødegaard
Martin Slaatto
Mette Edvardsen
Moqapi Selassie
Muna Mussie
Philip Holyman
Roza Moshtaghi
Staffan Eek
Sara Masotti
Sarah Ludi
Sébastien Hendrickx
Simon Asencio
Siriol Joyner
Sonia Si Ahmed
Thomas Bîrzan
Tiziana Penna
Tom Engels
Ulf Nilseng
Violeta Gil
Wouter Krokaert
Norwegian
Elskeren - Marguerite Duras
Thomas F's siste nedtegnelser til allmenheten - Kjell Askildsen
Upublisert dagbok - Margit Slaatto
Swedish
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
English
I Am a Cat - Sōseki Natsume
A Plague of Tics - David Sedaris
In the Skin of a Lion – Michael Ondaatje
A Handbook of Disappointed Fate – Anne Boyer
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Aesop's Fables – Aesop
Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
Against the Forgetting: Selected Poems - Hans Faverey
Four Quartets - T.S. Eliot
Orlando - Virginia Woolf
Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson
The True Deceiver - Tove Jansson
Monkey - Wu Ch’êng-ên
In The Solitude of Cotton Fields – Bernard-Marie Koltès
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Bartleby the Scrivener - Herman Melville
Italian
Il fucile da caccia - Inoue Yasushi
Lessico Famigliare - Natalia Ginzburg
l'Analfabeta, Racconto autobiografico - Agota Kristof
Così parlò Zarathustra. Un libro per tutti e per nessuno - Friedrich Nietzsche
French
Rêveries du promeneur solitaire - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Confessions d'un mangeur d'opium anglais - Thomas De Quincey
Méthaphysique des tubes - Amélie Nothomb
Un beau ténébreux – Julien Gracq
Thomas L’Obscur - Maurice Blanchot
Le Petit Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
La vie est ailleurs - Milan Kundera
Spanish
Amuleto - Roberto Bolaño
La hora de la estrella - Clarice Lispector
German
Seltsame Sterne starren zur Erde - Emine Sevgi Özdamar
Vielleicht Esther - Katja Petrowskaja
Nachdenken über Christa T. - Christa Wolf
Paloma - Friederike Mayröcker
Faust I - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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