Literature and survival tips: The International Literature Festival Odessa 2025 in Krakow.

While Trump Europe is terminating solidarity, the writers of the continent in Kraków meet for a literature festival. Once again you have to find a new language for the world – and for the upcoming wars.

If the Russians come, Paavo Matsin says: “We are prepared.” A few supplies and a crank radio have most of the estates in the house, says the writer from Tartu. He himself makes judo and also have weapons. Then he laughs. Ernst, joke and prophetism form a unit in the author of the grotesque of Romans “Gogols Disko”. Ten years ago he wrote the novel and designed the dystopia that the Russians are back in the Baltic States – among them, from the time, the poet Nikolaj Gogol.