Richard Fadem will offer a literature class Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. beginning on February 28 for 4-5 weeks, at the Orcas Senior Center.
The class will discuss Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending (2011); Franz Kafka’s “A Report to an Academy” (1917); and J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello (2003). The Julian Barnes novel, which won the Booker prize, takes its title from an important work of literary criticism by Frank Kermode and is a short, powerful novel.
The little Kafka story is an inversion of The Metamorphosis, also by Kafka. It is included in the class because the novel Elizabeth Costello, by the Nobel prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee, refers to it and in part dwells on the lives of animals, including of course humans.
Books are available at Darvills. Participants are expected to have read the material before class.
Registration will take place at the first class. Fee: $25. All are welcome.
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