SUN April 6th: Michael Saur “Rivoli” a reading
April 2nd, 2008 by Axel
Michael Saur is an independent writer from Germany who moved to New York 14 years ago. He’ll read from his upcoming novel “Rivoli”. We are sure it will be very entertaining and full of curiosities.
Michael Saur is the author of two previous novels and three non-fiction books, all published in German.
“Rivoli”
I am stranded in this nameless place Bob Dylan
“…To have Cecilia to myself for one week put me in an exhilarating mood. The gates to the past went down and shut, and nothing but the moment counted. We Detectives are slaves of the past, servicemen of former events, and even my collection of memorabilia and evidence could wear me down. I embraced the weightlessness that comes without it, the lightness of pure presence. I could afford a week in this no man’s land…”
Osmond, a young police detective of dubious morality, stumbles upon an old movie house in a small town. Still functioning as a theater, the “Rivoli” also is the residence of former film director Max Pendotte, his helper Jones and the beautiful Cecilia. First, the “Rivoli” offers Osmond reprieve from mounting problems, but soon he learns that he has become part of a scheme that exceeds his imagination. He discovers the “Rivoli” to be a place where boundaries between reality and fantasy melt and morph.
A conversation between Michael Saur and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison will appear in “Toni Morrison: Conversations”, University of Mississippi Press, to be released June 2008.
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