The Man with Many Names: Georgi Gospodinov in conversation with Lea Ypi

Georgi Gospodinov and Lea Ypi discuss fiction, memory, and the lives that history leaves behind, with a focus on Gospodinov’s collection The Man with Many Names.

An in-person literary conversation about how fiction can recover lives left out of historical narratives. Gospodinov and Ypi explore memory, imagination, and the unstable boundary between past and future through Gospodinov’s new short-story collection, whose stories move between ordinary encounters and invented lives.