Time and Timelessness: Everything You Wanted to Know About Time

Peter Zilahy's talk focused on narratives of time and timelessness through the filter of art, science and philosophy, and swept through the works of Dostoevsky, Kafka and Nabokov, among others. Speaker Biography: Peter Zilahy is one of Hungary's most exciting, diverse writers. His genre-defying novel, "The Last Window Giraffe" has been translated into 22 languages and won multiple awards, among them the Book of the Year in Ukraine. THe book is often cited as one of the inspirations for the Orange Revolution. Zilahy is a returning fellow at the John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress.