Fifth session: When We Were Orphans (2000), Parts One through Three

Format: Lecture with some discussion. There is an IN-PERSON component of this course at the library that is open to only 30 participants. There is also a ZOOM component of this course available at the same time. You must register for either (see below).

Winner of the Nobel Prize and a capacious talent with his feet firmly in the English tradition of the novel, Kazuo Ishiguro has carved out a slow-growing but astounding career as a post-Proust writer who can morph everything from Arthurian legend to the novels of Jane Austen into a profound meditation on the place of memory in trauma and trauma in memory. In this eight-week lecture-based course, we’ll explore four of his novels, spanning his output to find the themes that haunt him—and us, modern readers caught in the vortex of fallible memories and our historical chaos.

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