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Literature Seminar 2011/2012
Marjorie A. Crawford Literature Seminar
2011--2012
Sponsored by the Bitterroot Public Library
Free to the public, these seminars will be taught by Shawn Wathen, owner of Chapter One Book Store.
Note: Classes will be held only on Tuesdays.
October 4th: Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault
Perhaps the French philosopher's masterpiece, which is concerned with an extraordinary question: What does it mean to be mad?
November 8th: Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig
The great Austrian writer, Stefan Zweig, was a master anatomist of
the deceitful heart, and Beware of Pity, the only novel he published
during his lifetime, uncovers the seed of selfishness within even the
finest of feelings.
January 10th: R.U.R, by Karel Capek
Written in 1920, this play garnered worldwide acclaim for its author.
Mass-produced as efficient laborers to serve man, Capek's robots
remember everthing, but think of nothing new. But what of the Untopian
life they promise?
February 7th: Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
In 1936, Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead
joined the republican fight against the Fascists. This famous account
describes the war and Orwell's experiences.
March 6th: Season of the Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of this novel returns
to his village along the Nile in the Sudan. It is the 1960s, and he is
eager to make a contribution to the new post-colonial life of his
country.
April 3rd: Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, this is the
novel that brought Kundera his first big international success in the
late 1970s.
Classes will be held in the basement meeting room of the Bitterroot
Public Library (west entrance) from 9:30 to 11:30 am on the designated
day.
Books are available at Chapter One Book Store. The Bitterroot Public
Library will have a limited number of copies available for checkout.
Call 363-5220 or 363-1670 for more information.
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