The Pythia Talks. Meeting with writer Liv Strömquist
Presentation of the new book by Liv Strömquist
New event by Aspettando Gender Bender, the series of meetings with authors in anticipation of the 23rd edition of the festival.
Liv Strömquist is one of Sweden’s best-known cartoonists and is also a popular radio DJ and an activist working on feminist issues and reception policies.
A year after her last tour of Italy, Liv Strömquist, returns with The Pythia speaks to you, a comic book essay on self-help. With her sharp humor and lucid analysis, Liv Strömquist shows how our need for control and performance at all costs does not allow us to really live well.
From the Oracle of Delphi to Ronald Reagan’s personal astrologer, history is full of people who call on “experts” to optimize various aspects of their lives. The Internet is teeming with consultants with millions of followers ready to advise us on everything.
We live in a society that pushes us more and more to improve our mental and physical health in order to survive longer and longer, but still gives us no answer to the question of WHY we should continue to thrive on this planet. At a moment where we are bombarded with “expert advice” and words like self-care, glow up and positivity, Pythia speaks to you and says: “Give yourself a break.”
In conversation with Cristina Portolano, with translation by Samanta K. Milton Knowles.
Bookshop by La Confraternita dell’Uva Bookstore
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Event in collaboration with Fandango Libri, Salaborsa Library and La Confraternita dell’Uva bookstore
Liv Strömquist is one of Sweden’s best-known cartoonists and also a popular radio DJ. After graduating in political science, she made her comics debut with Hundred Percent Fat (2005) which was followed by Operation (2006), Einstein’s Wife (2008), Prince Charles Feelings (2010) and Yes to Life (2011).
She is an activist, working on feminist issues and reception politics. Her articles are published in Trade New, Galago, Ordfront Magazine, Aftonbladet and Dagens Nyheter. In 2016 she received an honorary doctorate from Malmö University. Fandango Libri has published The Fruit of Knowledge, translated in twenty countries and more than 50,000 copies sold in Sweden, The Feelings of Prince Charles, I’m Every Woman, The Redest Rose Opens, Inside the Hall of Mirrors, and Astrology.
