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What do you think of this week's story? Meet and talk.
Schedule: Several options are available.
Place: In-person and online, though some restrictions may apply.
Contact: e@erikpeter.me
Materials: "The Nose" by Gogol
Gogol uses common settings to stage events that resist easy interpretation.
Join Kovalyov as he struggles to recover his nose, which goes missing and takes him on an absurd chase around
a city.
If you haven't seen
William Kentridge's setting for The Nose (Met Opera), here is a preview:
"Our life is a theater piece ... nonobjective feeling is portrayed by objective imagery" - Malevich in Manifesto of Supremacism.
Schedule: May 25 19:00-21:20
Place: Online
Cost: $19
Contact: e@erikpeter.me
Flow: Presentation on key themes, discussion, and
options for more.
Though unreliable narrators may be deceptive, they also can approach forbidden subjects and reveal hidden truths.
Join and discuss classic authors like Poe, Dostoevsky, Barthelme, Gogol, Ishiguru, Akutagawa
and others. How do various modes of irony function as tools for discovery?
