Award-winning Novelist Joanna Kavenna - How to Play a Game Without Rules
Joanna Kavenna's seventh book charts a quixotic quest to uncover the rules of a fictional ancient board game—a journey that grows to encompass the shape of the universe, the meaning of life, and much in between.
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Show Notes
A riotious comic novel of ideas, Seven tells the story of an unnamed philosopher plunged into the strange world of Theodoros Apostalakis: dentist, poet, pursuer of lost things, and obsessive player of 'Seven', a revered board game whose champions struggle to hold onto what is most valuable in human life in the face of Artificial Intelligence. Blending academic satire, travel writing, farce, and philosophy into a singular, intoxicating brew, Seven is a literary novel that stretches the boundaries of the form and cannot be adequately explained in a bilateral podcast interview with the author: nevertheless, we attempt to do so in this episode.
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