International Writers Series: Katja Perat
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Katja Perat, PhD student in comparative literature and member of the International Writers Track, will present her new novel “The Masochist” (translated from the Slovenian by Michael Biggins) in a virtual reading and discussion with Lynne Tatlock, director of the Program in Comparative Literature, Washington University.
Katja Perat’s novel, The Masochist, is a serio-comical fictional romp through the Habsburg Empire of the fin de siècle, beginning in 1874 Lemberg (present day Lviv/Lvov in Ukraine), continuing to Vienna, and ending in the Habsburg Adriatic seaport of Trieste in 1912. Along the way, the protagonist, Nadezhda Moser, the daughter of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (notorious author of Venus in Furs), encounters luminaries of the Empire's cultural elite. Pre-registration is required.