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Lecture by Michael Eskin: 'Wake-Up Call: Gruenbein, Descartes, Pushkin'
Date
Wed October 29th 2008, 5:30pm
Lecture by Prof. Michael Eskin (Columbia University)
Co-sponsered by Slavic Languages and Literatures and German
Studies
This lecture explores the significance of literature for
life through
the prism of Durs Gruenbein's dialogue with Ren'e
Descartes and
Aleksandr S. Pushkin.
Reading suggestions:
Gruenbein, "Vom Schnee oder Descartes in
Deutschland [On
Snow, or Descartes in Germany]" (2003) and Pushkin,
"Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse" (1833). For
excerpts from Gruenbein's
work, click on the link below.