FREE ADMISSION until full capacity is reached at all events and exhibitions.
JUAN IGNACIO PÉREZ
PÉREZ SPEAKS OF KAFKA
Sickly, hypochondriacal and died at the age of forty as a result of tuberculosis, Kafka's obsession with a healthy lifestyle and his distrust of traditional medicine is not so well-known. As a child, he swam, practised naturopathy in various European...
19:00
Bizkaia Aretoa - Axular and Etxepare Halls
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KALEIDOSCOPE KAFKA
INAUGURATION
The official opening of the KALEIDOSCOPE KAFKA exhibition will be attended by some of its authors, as well as the authorities, the festival's friends, and the general public. Free admission until full capacity is reached.
BERNARDO ATXAGA
In conversation with ROBERTO MOSO
After a life devoted to literature, Bernardo Atxaga's latest works reveal an inclination towards humour which, according to the author, was always present in his children's books, but which he could not fully unleash in the rest of his work...
JUAN TALLÓN & BÁRBARA MINGO
KAFKA'S ART
The world of modern art is prone to extravagances, banalities, and excesses that are so absurd that they wouldn't be out of step in a story written by Kafka. Works like Duchamp's Urinal or Cattelan's Banana Glued to the Wall,...
ZADIE SMITH
In conversation with ALOMA RODRÍGUEZ
Since her acclaimed debut novel ‘White Teeth’, Zadie Smith's narrative moves to the rhythm of jazz in the same north-west London neighbourhood where she grew up. A territory populated by multicultural personalities —she herself is of Jamaican origin— where current...
CARLOS ARECES
In conversation with BRUNO PARDO PORTO
It is normal for an actor to be able to portray several roles, but Carlos Areces seems to have made this a speciality. One of Ibáñez's best-known admirers, and above all of his Mortadelo, we have seen Areces in ‘La...
MONIKA ZGUSTOVA & CAROLINA ONTIVERO | LOLA BARROSO
MILENA DE PRAGA
We owe it to Kafka’s 'Letters to Milena’, for making his addressee known, a unique woman the author admired for her vitality. Translator of some of Kafka's works into Czech and the woman who understood him most intimately, Milena Jesenská...
19:00
Bizkaia Aretoa · Sala Mitxelena
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JUAN VILLORO
In conversation with MAITE ESPARZA
Juan Villoro's work is distinguished by the unique concoction made up of scholarship, intelligence and humour that his pages offer. Villoro has tackled all kinds of literary and journalistic genres, but his greatest charm is when he combines several at...
20:30
Bizkaia Aretoa · Sala Mitxelena
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EDUARDO TORRES-DULCE & JUAN BAS
KAFKA AT THE MOVIES
Kafka reveals himself as a keen spectator of the early days of the cinematograph through his journals and letters. Together with his inseparable Max Brod, he went to cinemas in Prague and Berlin and visited cinemas in other cities during...
19:00
Bizkaia Aretoa · Sala Mitxelena
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CECILIA DREYMÜLLER & ANDRÉS BARBA
FANTASTIC BEASTARY
The biting ape from ‘Report for an Academy', the neurotic mole from ‘The Burrow’ or the sceptical mice from ‘Josephine the Singer’ are just some of the speaking and thinking animals which, along with the famous insect from ‘The Metamorphosis’...
20:30
Bizkaia Aretoa · Sala Mitxelena
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MANUEL VILAS & IGNACIO ECHEVARRÍA
KAFKA'S HUMOUR
Kafka is often wrongly accused of dark and anguished visions of existence, a misunderstanding that ignores the importance of humour in his literature. His literature is rife with scenes of physical comedy, extravagant characters, black humour and verbal exaggeration. On...
19:00
Bizkaia Aretoa · Sala Mitxelena
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RODRIGO CORTÉS & ANDRÉS IBÁÑEZ
CONSIDER ME A DREAM
Ever since that morning when Gregor Samsa awoke from an uneasy dream, it has been common in Kafka's work to find characters moving in dream-like environments or around beds where the most absurd situations occur. Among the author's scholars, there...
20:30
Bizkaia Aretoa · Sala Mitxelena
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REINER STACH
In conversation with BERTA VIAS MAHOU
CITIZEN KKafka's life (1883-1924) is inextricably linked to his work. Beyond over-interpretations, it is so because that is how the author considered it, who went so far as to say, “All I am is literature”. Hundreds of biographies have been...
19:00
Bizkaia Aretoa · Sala Mitxelena
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MANUEL GUTIÉRREZ ARAGÓN’S 10 FAVORITE HUMOR SEQUENCES
In conversation with JUAN BAS
This is a new issue of this festival's regular section, featuring a guest who chooses their ten favourite comedy sequences and discusses them with Juan Bas as they are being screened. A revamped Sunday afternoon film session, with its blend...
