{"id":59601,"date":"2022-10-24T14:15:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T14:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/events\/disappearance-josef-mengele-discussion-olivier-guez-and-alison-james\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T07:43:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T07:43:37","slug":"disappearance-josef-mengele-discussion-olivier-guez-and-alison-james","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/disappearance-josef-mengele-discussion-olivier-guez-and-alison-james\/","title":{"rendered":"Avec l&#8217;auteur Olivier Guez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Event Details<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.af-chicago.org\/events\/avec-l-auteur-olivier-guez\/\">November 4, 2022 | 3pm &#8211; Alliance Fran\u00e7aise de Chicago<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Olivier Guez will be in\u00a0conversation with Anne-Sophie Rouveloux .<br \/><em>Free for members and students* \u2022 $15 Non-Members<\/em>\u00a0<em>\u2022\u00a0Enter via 54 W. Chicago Ave<\/em><br \/>\nRegister\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/myalliance.af-chicago.org\/pages\/cultural-events\/2022\/fall-2022\/avec-lauteur--olivier-guez\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"semcoop.com\/event\/olivier-guez-disappearance-josef-mengele-alison-james\"><strong>November 7, 2022 | 6pm &#8211; Seminary Co-op Bookstore<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Olivier Guez will be in\u00a0conversation with Professor Alison James (University of Chicago).<br \/>\nRegister\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/airtable.com\/shr3lVkaUNQDj5Cuc\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p><strong>About the book<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Published in 2022 with Verso Books, <em>The Disappearance of Josef Mengele <\/em>traces the steps of the 3 decade long escape of the Angel of Death, who performed horrific experiments of the prisoners of Auschwitz, to South America, pursued by Mossad agents, international police, and the world&#8217;s journalists, until the day he collapsed in the Brazilian surf in 1979. In this\u00a0rigorously\u00a0researched factual novel\u2014drawn almost entirely from historical documents\u2014Olivier Guez traces Mengele\u2019s footsteps through these years of flight. This chilling novel situates the reader in a literary manhunt on the trail of one of the most elusive and evil figures of the twentieth century. Translation by Georgia de Chamberet. The novel was a recipient of the\u00a0<strong>2017 Renaudot literary prize<\/strong>\u00a0in France, and received high praise from publications such as Washington Post, the Times, and Forward among others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Olivier Guez is the author of novels and essays translated into more than thirty languages including <em>American Spleen<\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>L\u2019Impossible retour<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(<em><strong>A History of Jews in Germany since 1945<\/strong><\/em>),\u00a0<em><strong>Praise of Dodging<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em><strong>The Revolutions of Jacques<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Koskas<\/strong><\/em>. His<a href=\"https:\/\/www.semcoop.com\/disappearance-josef-mengele\"><strong><em>\u00a0The Disappearance of Josef Mengele<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0has been translated worldwide and is currently adapted for the screen. Guez is also the co-author of the screenplay\u00a0<em>der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer<\/em>\u00a0(Fritz Bauer, a German Hero), for which he won the 2016 German Oscar for best script. As a journalist, he has contributed to Le Monde, Point, the New York Times, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and the Corriere della Sera. He has lived in England, Nicaragua, Brussels, Berlin, and Paris, and currently lives in Rome.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the translator<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Georgia de Chamberet\u00a0is a committee member of English PEN\u2019s Writers in Translation programme. As an editor at Quartet Books in the 1990s she published contemporary writers Tahar Ben Jelloun, Annie Ernaux, Juan Carlos Onetti, Daniel Pennac and Simon Leys (winner of the 1992 Independent Award for Foreign Fiction) amongst others, as well as showcasing various Cuban writers in an anthology edited by Peter Bush.<\/p>\n<p>Presented in partnership with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fcc.uchicago.edu\/\"><strong>France Chicago Center<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":59599,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[213],"app_city_tax":[223],"app_event_type":[241],"class_list":["post-59601","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-literature","app_city_tax-chi","app_event_type-talk"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Avec l&#039;auteur Olivier Guez - Villa Albertine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/disappearance-josef-mengele-discussion-olivier-guez-and-alison-james\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Avec l&#039;auteur Olivier Guez - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Event Details November 4, 2022 | 3pm &#8211; Alliance Fran\u00e7aise de Chicago Olivier Guez will be in\u00a0conversation with Anne-Sophie Rouveloux .Free for members and students* \u2022 $15 Non-Members\u00a0\u2022\u00a0Enter via 54 W. 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