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Event Category:
Permanent Community
Event Category:
Students
Event Category:
Young Adult
Date:
Tuesday, July 28, 2015 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
the home of Professors Al & Barbara Gelpi We'll be reading and discussing Kazuo Ishiguro's recent novel The Buried Giant. Ishiguro is a Japanese writer who is English and lives in London. His most famous previous novels are The Remains of the Day, which was made into an acclaimed movie some years ago, and Never Let Me Go. The Buried Giant takes place in England after the death of King Arthur and the scattering of the Round Table in a tense "peace" between the native Britons and the invading Saxons. It is a fable for adults; the plot involves a journey/quest and invokes Arthurian legend and fairy tale and the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf (including a dragon and monsters). The encounters along the way turn on the deep and abiding themes of love and death, memory and guilt, war and peace, loyalty and community. Contact Prof. Al Gelpi (agelpi@stanford.edu) for more information. |
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