Past Event

Book Launch: konkretion

5th Mar 2013

Presenter: UWA Publishing
Website: http://uwap.uwa.edu.au/
Event Duration: 120 minutes

Brilliant stylist and innovator Marion May Campbell’s konkretion is a bold, politically-edged and wryly funny novella centered around two women in dialogue over the idea of the romance of the revolutionary.

Ex-commo Monique Piquet meets up in Paris with a former student, Angel Beigesang, who has just published a dramatic re-imagining of Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin of the Red Army Faction, the so-called Baader-Meinhof Gang — the original urban terrorists, in 1970s West Germany.

Wandering through revolutionary and repressive Paris, Monique’s breakdown goes into freefall, as she recalls her earlier radicalism and its part in the younger woman’s dangerous identification with revolutionaries.This work considers Meinhof’s 1970 tripwire leap into illegality with intellect and satire.

Marion May Campbell is a prize-winning author who has written novels, theatre works, poetry, short fiction, essays, reviews and academic literary papers. She has been the recipient of awards, literature grants and residencies. She studied French and German literature and has subsequently taught French, comparative literature and creative writing at various Australian universities. She is currently at the University of Melbourne. konkretion is her fifth work of fiction.