Clemens J. Setz

The Austrian shooting star comes to Zurich with his very weird book. Who wrote it? He himself doesn't want it to have been.

Bot. Gespräch ohne Autor (Bot. Conversation without author) is a volume of interviews with Clemens J. Setz. However, he does not take part in the conversation himself, but leaves the job to a computer program with an automated search function that looks for answers in his electronic diary - and always finds something astonishing. When are we dealing with humans, when with machines? That is the big question of countless science fiction fantasies. It is the explicit starting point of Clemens J. Setz's new book.

"It's often bizarre, ... it's always surprising, often touching. ... it can even bring tears to your eyes when you read it." (DIE ZEIT)

Clemens J. Setz's novels Die Frequenzen and Indigo were shortlisted for the German Book Prize. Setz received the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize 2015 for his novel Die Stunde zwischen Frau und Gitarre.