Study Group Details
684: Three Symbolic Novels
Tuesday9:45 - 11:15
Starting September 26
In-Person
Symbols offer different paths into three outstanding novels. Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony (Southwest Indian culture engages the dominant Anglo culture), Elie Wiesel's The Gates of the Forest (his best novel about Jewish survival in WWII Hungary), and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (about an English family at their summer home and the physics of memory). These are three of my favorite books, with insight into three distinct times and cultures. Come explore.
This study group is new
Class Type: Lecture and Discussion
Class Format: TBA
Hours of Reading: 1-2 hrs/week
Study Group Leader(s):
Helen Schwartz
Helen Schwartz has taught OLLI classes on Shakespeare, American literature, Documents that Changed the World, and Year Zero: A History of 1945. Retired from Indiana University, with a PhD in English Literature, she now writes historical suspense novels and traffics in the international exchange of ideas.
Reading List
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf) | 1989: Harcourt Brace | ISBN: 978-0156907392 | Required
The Gates of the Forest (Elie Wiesel) | 1995: Schocken | ISBN: 978-0805210446 | Required
Ceremony (Leslie Marmon Silko) | 1986: Penguin: Contemporary Am Fictn | Required