Festival 42
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Fabra i Coats Sant Adrià 20, 08030 Barcelona
The third edition of Festival 42 focuses this year on the three classic dimensions of time: past, present and future. A key theme these days both inside and outside fantasy genres. Because we are living in an era where we endlessly analyze the next day, playing dystopia, recreating black or apocalyptic futures, thinking of a destroyed planet, AIs controlling the world, an economy on the brink of collapse, with everyone alienated by technology, one step from the abyss.
In addition to its central theme and well-known guests linked to this issue, Festival 42 will also have others, ranging from children’s narratives and fostering reading, with top national and international authors, to popularizing the classics, and from home-grown and universal heritage, with tributes and special celebrations ranging from Michael Ende to Vicenç Pagès-Jordà, and from Jaume Fuster in Gilgamesh, to Star Trek, The Thousand and One Nights and the videogame Zelda. Podcasts and new Gothic narratives, the role of the sea and language in fantasy genres, the new weird, romantasy and so on. The festival program is again inviting over a hundred guests, making it a benchmark event once more for any reader—anyone curious about, keen on or interested in the literary imagination.
The three-day event will include activities that go beyond books and authors, including workshops, talks, discussions, live podcasts, games, competitions, literary tours and other interactive activities.
For more events check our online events calendar.
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