Benjamín Labatut: From Onassis Stegi to the Onassis Channel on YouTube
Digital premiere: 21.11.25, at 12:00
The award-winning author who transcends the boundaries between essay and fiction, reality and imagination, in conversation with Afroditi Panagiotakou, Artistic Director at Onassis Foundation.
Photo: Andreas Simopoulos
“What is the difference between truth and reality? Is there one?
There is a great difference. Reality is much better, because it includes all other values. It includes the things we value most: dreams, hallucinations, and memories. All these things have a kind of inseparable mixture of truth and reality.”
From Onassis Stegi to the Onassis Channel on YouTube, six months after his appearance on the Onassis Stegi Main Stage, fragments from the conversation by the Chilean writer Benjamin Labatut with Afroditi Panagiotakou. Shrouded in mystery, hard to reach, and translated in many languages, Labatut has already earned wide international acclaim for his work, while his book "When We Cease to Understand the World" stood out amongst the 2021 nominations for the International Booker Prize. With his 2023 book “The MANIAC,” Labatut tells the story of John von Neumann, the most intelligent human being of the 20th century, delving into the dark foundations and myths of our modern world and the nascent era of AI.
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