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Richard Powers: We begin the new year with his novel Fear, which is a multifaceted, serious reading, but raises a lot of current questions that are consciously or subconsciously with us in everyday life. A whole series of ecological, social and psychological topics will be examined this time through the lives of a tragic father-son couple, in which the entire univel known by humanity and expanded by fantasy, responsibility for each other and towards nature, the struggle of a child's psyche with the processing of traumas and relation to reality.

Read more about the book's recommendation: "Theo Byrne, an astrobiologist who's been searching for signs of life outside the Earth in outer space, has been raising his nine-year-old son since the death of his wife. Theo doesn't want his son to be treated with psychoactive drugs. He learns about an experimental technique called neurofeedback, which allows Robin to learn to control her emotions better - the procedure partly adapts the boy to the patterns of operation recorded from her mother's brain. The depiction of the soaring nature descriptions, the painful visions of distant worlds and the passionately loving father-son relationship make the Fear the most intimate novel of Powers, in which the question is always hidden: How do we tell our children the truth about this beautiful but endangered planet?"

Moderator: Veszprém New Year's Eve poet, community organizer

Invited fellow speakers:

Anita Moskat writer Dr. Nóra Szabó Gyemekneurologist, assistant professor of the SZTE, literature therapist

In the organization of the program, our partner is the team of Öko Axis - Kompostfusztár. Access to the program is free of charge