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Delve Readers Seminar: Orhan Pamuk’s Nights of Plague: Fairy-tale, History, Allegory
October 25, 2022 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
$245Explore Orhan Pamuk’s new novel, Nights of Plague, an epic narrative which depicts the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the late Ottoman era during the reign of the despotic Sultan Abdülhamid II. Presented as an historical novel, Nights of Plague’s diseased universe resonates with our current world, hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Pamuk’s signature style manifests itself through multiple narrative mediations, leading to an open-ended representation of history.
Published in the original in 2021, the English translation of Nights of Plague is scheduled to appear in early October 2022.
Texts
Nights of Plague, Orhan Pamuk. translated by Ekin Oklap. Penguin-Randomhouse. October 4, 2022. The book can be preordered. It will be also available in Ebook and Audiobook formats.
Access Program
We want our writing classes to be accessible to everyone, regardless of income and background. We understand that our tuition structure can present obstacles for some people. Our Access Program offers Delve and writing class registrations at a reduced rate. The access program for Delve and writing classes covers 60% of the class tuition. Most Delves have at least one access spot available.
Please apply here for access rate tuition. Contact Susan Moore at susan@literary-arts.org if you have questions.
Ülker Gökberk is Professor Emerita of German and Humanities at Reed College. She earned her Ph.D. in Germanics at the University of Washington (1986) and her M.A. and B.A. degrees in Philosophy at the University of Istanbul. She has been at Reed since 1986. Her forthcoming book is titled Excavating Memory: Bilge Karasu’s Istanbul and Walter Benjamin’s Berlin.