Watch our conversation with Graham School instructor Clare Pearson to explore Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, which is often described as one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century. Les Misérables is a sophisticated novel that combines history, philosophy, and literature, crossing genres in a way that influenced Tolstoy’s War and Peace. The book interweaves…...
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) has been called “the greatest Portuguese poet of his century” (New Yorker 2017) and his writings have been on the rise in the English-speaking world. Watch our conversation with Katia Mitova on Pessoa’s work. At the time of his death, Pessoa left two trunks full of unpublished manuscripts, only a few of…...
What can fiction teach us about international relations? Watch our conversation with Graham School instructor Jennifer Lind and explore how novels about imagined worlds can inform our understanding of global events in the real-world. In this conversation, we examine two novels: The Remains of the Day by Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro and All Quiet…...
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