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4.FM: “My Name is Red” is possibly your most acclaimed novel. What do you think makes this book special...
...Sophomore Advising, and a Ph.D. candidate. Studying primate biology as an undergraduate at Columbia University, Jenkins never expected to end up where he is today. But after contracting malaria during a research trip to Kenya, Jenkins decided to switch to literature to feed his obsession with the Victorian novel. Though the two topics seem unrelated, Jenkins sees a clear connection. “In both disciplines, you are searching for great significance in the tiniest details, great meaning in minute actions and things,” he says...
...professors, we just managed to snag F. Orhan Pamuk, the famed Turkish novelist and Nobel Laureate, as Harvard’s Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer of the semester. The English Department’s new kid on the block will be giving guest talks on the art of the novel, which will be open to all at Sanders Theater. The Columbia professor, who splits his time between New York and Istanbul, sits down with FM to chat about Harvard, freedom of speech, and why winning isn’t everything...
Orhan Pamuk: My lectures are focused on the art of the novel. They are from the point of view of the practitioner, not of the scholar or the historian...
...more than 20 books, both fiction and poetry. She revisits persistently, almost obsessively, her earlier life in Romania and her experience of political oppression. The Land of Green Plums describes the fate of a young woman from the country who attends a Romanian university. Over the course of the novel - it's narrated by one of her roommates - Lola is politically harassed and sexually traumatized, and finally she hangs herself. The title refers to the unripe plums that the city's ogreish police officers steal and eat as they roam the streets, in a display of brainless gluttony...