We have been making some short videos from the class discussions this semester:
- week one (Introduction): Literature and Feeling: Beyond Anxiety
- week nine (Manea): Contract Grading in an Era of AI: Recovering Trust
- week ten (Piglia): Studying in an Era of AI: Learning to Trust Yourself, Beyond Imitation
- week eleven (Cercas): Words are only made for saying the Sayable: Javier Cercas’s Soldiers of Salamis
- week twelve (Luiselli): Everything trembles: Valeria Luiselli’s Faces in the Crowd
- week twelve (Ferrante): Writing and Broken Promises: Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend
- week thirteen (Conclusion): Isn’t this the point of literature? Ricardo Piglia’s Money to Burn
We have also made some shorts from the conversation videos:
- on Roberto Arlt
- on Joseph Zobel
- on Italo Calvino: “He’s giving body to the act of reading.”
- on Marguerite Duras: “She steps aside from the victim narrative… and all narrative.”
- on Ricardo Piglia
- on Javier Cercas: “He’s masterful in the way he ties things up for you.”
- with José Eduardo Agualusa: “I write to understand the other.”
- on Elena Ferrante: “I felt that it was important to bring attention to the translator.”
- with Djaïli Amadou Amal: “Casser l’image habituelle qu’on a de l’Afrique.”
You can also find these on our Instagram channel.
