Der Fall McNeal

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1010 Wien

 

Jacob McNeal, a successful and narcissistic writer, is more than ever confronted with the influence of AI on his writing, with his own physical decline, but also with his family past. His latest book is based almost entirely on a manuscript by his late wife and he also processed his son's private experiences without his consent. This now threatens to publicly destroy McNeal's career.

Ayad Akhtar's piece, translated into German by Daniel Kehlmann, is a complex portrait of a privileged, eccentric artist over 50. In it, Akhtar questions the writing profession itself as well as the power structures between the genders and speculates how AI will change us.

 

(Source: burgtheater.at)