Kamil Zbruž

Kamil Zbruž (born 1964 in Bratislava) promotes a new literary style which he calls non-writing. He wrote / non-wrote 23 experimental books: e.g. Drunken Image (1993), Sirius (1998), Energy (2011), Magnum Opus (2019), A Day at the Lake (2019), Graffiti (2020), Graffiti on a Train (2020, The Mystic (2023) and Magus (2023). He was nominated for the Zlatá vlna poetry award two times. He co-founded the literary group Barbarian Generation. At the festival he will present his newest book Bestseller. Bestseller is a postmodern swirling of words and images around the empty centre of literature. It is the virus of silence that infects us through the media. It programs us with information we don't need. It bombards our perception with it, causing us to feel an inner emptiness. It is a program that holds us in its power and manipulates us as it wishes, out of our control. We live in its world, which we perceive as our own. The name of the dehumanizing program is "Jolifanto Bambla". Formally, Bestseller uses the method of non-creative writing, also known as copying. The postmodern Bestseller is literature in the mirror of anti-literature.