The first real meeting of the class is today; we will be reading and viewing the following:
The Bible, Book of Exodus and later selected excerpts.
Herman Melville, selected stories, including "Bartleby"
Franz Kafka, "In the Penal Colony."
Snow – Orhan Pamuk
Neuromancer – William Gibson
Leo Tolstoy – Great Short Works, including Hadji Murad and Ivan Ilyich
Eugene Zamiatyin – We
Jose Saramago – Blindness
Jack Henry Abbott – In the Belly of the Beast
Fernando Verissimo – Borges and the Eternal Orangutans
J.M. Coetzee – The Life and Times of Michael K
Law Lit, by Thane Rosenbaum, selections
Mario Vargas Llosa – Who Killed Palomino Molero?
Francisco Goldman – The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?
Films: Battle Royale, others, including I hope some new releases.
I have now ordered Battle Royale from Netflix twice, both times getting Battle Royale II, which ain’t so hot. The discs crossed in the mail after I reported the problem with the first one, so I think the problem may be systemic (the disc looks like it would be Battle Royale– the only “II” is very small and only in the Japanese text).
Tyler,
I love “We.” You can see the seeds of Brave New World, 1984, and This Perfect Day in it.
Best,
David
Why Bartleby ? and not the obvious Benito Cereno or Billy Bud.
Looks more like a course on Kafka .Only add Picwicks Papers and Tartarian Desert and is complete.
“We” is more than the seed of 1984 and Brave New World .It is the whole model. orwell ackpwledge that
No Crime and Punishment? And what of The Stranger?
I stole my father’s copy of In the Belly of the Beast when I was in 6th grade and read it. I was so scared and disturbed by what I saw that I didn’t tell anyone for 3 years that I’d read it.
“Bartleby the Scribner” is one of my favorite short stories. Bravo!
I imagine it relates employment conditions etc?
Bartleby-
Same thing happened to me too. I would up renting BR 1 from the local video store.
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