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$ 105.00
Great Books and the Meanings of Life
Led by James Sloan Allen
5:30pm-7:00pm
Four Wednesdays: March 16th, March 30th, April 27th, May 11th
$85 for members; $105 for nonmembers
The spring Great Books group turns to four novels featuring unforgettable, sometimes eccentric, central characters who find meaning in their lives in peculiar yet thought-provoking ways. The books (in reading order) are: Goncharov's Oblomov (Magarshack trans. Penguin), Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (McDuff trans. Penguin), Sartre's Nausea (Alexander trans. New Directions), and Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Parker trans. New Am. Lib).
James Sloan Allen is a cultural historian whose recent book, Worldly Wisdom: Great Books and the Meanings of Life, deals in part with books discussed in this class since 2002.
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