Frühschoppen Literary Brunch 2013 Part 2: Clemens Setz

Deutsches Haus at New York University presents, in collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum, Consulate General of Switzerland, Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Deutsches Haus at Columbia University, German Book Office, Goethe-Institut New York, and Pro Helvetia
Festival Neue Literatur 2013: Frühschoppen Literary Brunch Part 2: Clemens Setz

Sunday, February 24th, 2013

The six German-language authors of Festival Neue Literatur 2013: Tim Krohn, Leif Randt, Silke Scheuermann, Clemens J. Setz, Cornelia Travnicek and Ulrike Ulrich, give a sampling from their work, providing a taste of new writing from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland.
This event is moderated by Susan Bernofsky and Claudia Steinberg.

Festival Neue Literatur (FNL) is New York's first and only annual German-language literary
festival, established in 2009 as a collaborative project of New York's leading German-language cultural institutions: the Austrian Cultural Forum, Consulate General of Switzerland, Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Deutsches Haus at Columbia University, Deutsches Haus at NYU, German Book Office, Goethe-Institut New York, and Pro Helvetia.
Frühschoppen Literary Brunch 2013 is made possible by the generous support of BMW of North America and Air Berlin and also supported by Radeberger.

Clemens J. Setz was born in 1982 and now lives in Graz, Austria. For his short-story collection Die Liebe zur Zeit des Mahlstädter Kindes (Love in Times of the Mahlstadt Child) he won the 2011 Leipzig Book Fair Prize. His other books are Söhne und Planeten (Sons and Planets, 2007) and Die Frequenzen (The Frequencies, 2009), which was shortlisted for the German Book Prize 2009 and won the Bremen literature prize 2010. He translated the novel Entering Hades by John Leake into German (Der Mann aus dem Fegefeuer), a documentary thriller about the Austrian poet and serial killer Jack Unterweger. His novel Indigo, which was published in 2012, was shortlisted for the German Book Prize.
Featured novel: Indigo
In Clemens J. Setz's novel Indigo, children born with the mysterious "Indigo syndrome," which afflicts anyone in their proximity with headaches, vertigo and other symptoms, are sent to the Helianau Institute in Styria, Austria. A mathematics tutor there—who shares the author's name and biographical details -- witnesses unexplained "relocations" of students, which he decides to investigate. The novel itself is presented as the research materials assembled by this fictionalized Clemens Setz. The Pynchonesque conspiracy looming in these pages involves exploiting the children's "Indigo potential" for dubious ends.
With a premise like something out of The Twilight Zone or The X-Files and the bizarre dystopian atmosphere of a Terry Gilliam movie, this novel also takes for granted the expansive terrain writers like Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and David Foster Wallace have claimed for literature. With intelligence, humor and a gracefully musical prose style, the prize-winning thirty-year-old Austrian author incorporates into his fiction a collection of unusual anecdotes, neglected footnotes to historical or current events, cultural and pop marginalia. The sheer pleasure of reading Setz's writing lies in his digressive, improvisatory style.

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