Syllabus
January 22:
Introduction, The Nonfiction Novella January 30:
Erich Auerbach, "Odysseus' Scar," Mimesis
Homer, The Odyssey, Book XIX
"Elohim," Genesis, Chapter 22, V.S. Naipaul, "The Return of Eva Peron"
February 5:
George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language" "Marrakech," Homage to Catalonia, The Road to Wigan Pier
February 12:
Mark Bowden, Black Hawk Down
Ridley Scott, "Black Hawk Down" (Sony Pictures)
[CNN Presents, "Black Hawk Down"]
February 19:
Joseph Conrad, "Heart of Darkness"
Sven Lindqvist, Exterminate All the Brutes
Sven Lindqvist, A History of Bombing
February 26:
Henry Adams, Democracy H. Adams & C.F. Adams, Chapters of Erie
March 5:
Mark Danner, The Massacre at El Mozote
March 12:
Janet Malcolm, The Journalist and the Murderer, "The Silent Woman" [In the Freud Archives]
March 19:
Ryszard Kapuscinski, The Emperor, Shah of Shahs
April 2:
John McPhee, A Sense of Where You Are ("Lists of Ingredients" Due)
April 9:
Thomas Whiteside, Twiggy and Justin
George W.S. Trow, Within the Context of No Context [Daniel Boorstin, The Image]
April 16:
Joan Didion, Salvador, Democracy
April 23:
Ian Jack, "Gibraltar," The Granta Book of Reporting, Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier (Long Piece Openings Due)
April 30:
Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
May 7:
Truman Capote, In Cold Blood [along w/ Robert Brooks' film, In Cold Blood] (Final Papers Due)
May 14:
Primo Levy, A Man's A Man (aka, Survival in Auschwitz)
[Louis Begley, Wartime Lies, Gitta Sereny, Into That Darkness, W.G. Sebald, The Emigrants]
Other Recommended Texts:
Lawrence Weschler, Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, Calamities of Exile; William Styron, Darkness Visible; C.S. Lewis, Grief Observed