Book Meet-Up | Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
Di., 26. Nov.
|Academy Bar
For Non-Fiction November, follow Naomi Klein (not Naomi Wolf!) through the looking glass
Time & Location
26. Nov. 2024, 19:00 – 22:00
Academy Bar, Franz-Josef-Straße 4, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
About the event
Note: Our discussions are held in English. If you're interested in setting up a German-language Book Club, please let us know: hello@quekusa.at
This month's book is Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein.
From GoodReads: "What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you’d devoted your life to fighting against? Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience―she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent but whose name and public persona were sufficiently similar to her own that many people got confused about who was who. Destabilized, she lost her bearings, until she began to understand the experience as one manifestation of…