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What is Pen? / World Voices / Panel Discussion / Writers Biographies |
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PEN WORLD VOICES
Faith & Reason
Reason and faith have always co-existed in an uneasy symbiosis. People in every era have sought convincing reasons for their profoundest beliefs about the physical and moral worlds, even as every generation has challenged received truths in the light of new perspectives. Yet as Pascal pointed out, the heart does not always respond to the arguments of reason, and for much of mankind, faith¹s empire has never faltered.
Today, faith and reason seem increasingly estranged across the globe, as religions vie against science, fundamentalists, post-modernists and geopolitical realists all question the liberal humanist creeds of democracy, equality and human rights, and old and new orthodoxies contend with one another. As faith-based fanaticism breeds violence, the dreams of reason produce amoral technologies as fearsome as any religion¹s inferno. New dogmas of market-driven global capitalism threaten to overwhelm old faiths and attachments to a homeland or a certain way of life.
What is the role of literature in these new iterations of an age-old contest? As witnesses to the truths of the heart as well as masters of the languages through which all reasoning must ultimately be rendered, writers can help to heal the breach between faith¹s passion and reason¹s clarity. By convening a truly global group of authors to talk about the problem of faith and reason in a number of its many forms, PEN World Voices seeks to deepen and broaden the contemporary discussion of one of the central dichotomies of our time. |
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Melania G. Mazzucco and Jhumpa Lahiri
NYU Casa Italiano: 24 West 12th Street
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Helen Oyeyemi and Esmeralda Santiago
Studio Museum in Harlem: 144 West 125th St.
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Etgar Keret and George Saunders
Housing Works Bookstore Café: 126 Crosby St.
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Saturday, April 29
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Rodrigo Fresán and Jonathan Lethem
Joe's Pub: 425 Lafayette St.
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Saturday, April 29
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Azhar Abidi and Monique Truong
The Bowery Poetry Club: 308 Bowery
Tickets: Free; (212) 614-0505 |
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Thursday, April 27
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Boris Akunin, Bernardo Atxaga, Raymond Federman, Yiyun Li, Agi Mishol, Hwang Sok-Yong, and Dubravka Ugresic
Columbia University Faculty House: 400 West 117th St.
Tickets: Free; (212) 854-1200 |
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