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Materials: "The Nose" by Gogol
「鼻」 ニコライ・ゴーゴリ
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 of Shostakovich's masterpiece:
Painting by Malevich, who showed the architecture of unreliable narrators in his Manifesto of Supremacism.
Schedule: May 18 19:00-21:20
Place: Online
Cost: $19
Contact: erik@feedback.erikpeter.me
Our best stories often come from unreliable narrators, which take different forms, like delusion, madness, or, as Socrates argued in Phaedrus, "the sane man vanishes into nothingness before that of the inspired madmen." Mania is not necessarily evil and often a gift from the gods and contributes to flow states and hidden truths.
Join and discuss classic authors like Plato, Poe, Dostoevsky, Barthelme, Gogol, Ishiguru, Akutagawa and others. How do various unreliable narrators function as tools for discovery?
