Online Seminar Series

Anguish and the Absurd –

1984 by George Orwell  (part three of three)

Saturday, January 21, 2023

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“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.”

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This series will explore the troubling world of the absurd through the writings of Kafka, Gogol, Camus, Sartre, Borges, Beckett, Bulgakov, and others.

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January 21 Reading:

Lolita by Nabokov – Chapters 1-24 (pages 9-104)

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
(March 1989) – ISBN 978-0679723165

Schedule:

12:00-2:00PM PST

Tutors: 

Paul Herder and Andy Gilman

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Location: 

Online. Register to receive the link.