Tim Parks, novelist, essayist and translator, is the author of nineteen works of fiction, including Europa, shortlisted for the Booker. He is a regular contributor to both The New York Review of Books and The London Review of Books. He lives in Italy, where he teaches literature and translation studies at IULM in Milan.

DIALOGUES ON CONSCIOUSNESS Riccardo Manzotti and Tim Parks Fifteen conversations between a celebrated writer and a philosopher/robotics engineer that delve into basic questions surrounding our existence, covering topics such as “Where Are Words?”, “The Reality of Dreams,” “The Object of Consciousness,” and “Does Information Smell?” More