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Istituto Italiano di Cultura - Tel Aviv
הפקולטה למדעי הרוח ע"ש לסטר וסאלי אנטין
הפקולטה לאמנויות ע"ש יולנדה ודוד כץ
אוניברסיטת תל אביב
מתכבדים להזמין להרצאתו של
UMBERTO ECO
Professor Emeritus, University of Bologna, President of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, University of Bologna
CONFESSIONS OF A YOUNG NOVELIST
Introduction: Prof. Hana Wirth-Nesher
Department of English and American Studies
ביום חמישי, ה- 24.2.2011, בשעה 16:15
באולם פאסטליכט, בנין מקסיקו
ההרצאה באנגלית
This talk is an introduction to Prof. Eco's new book of the same name. Semiologist, medievalist, and bestselling novelist Eco (The Name of the Rose) confronts the question of what, exactly, creative writing is: Why is a bad poet a creative writer, while a good scientific essayist is not? What is the boundary between fiction and nonfiction? How do novelists put together books? Why do we care about wholly fictional characters like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary? To answer the question, Eco examines the slippery relationship between author, text, and their interpreters. How does the author's intent come to engage the reader? Can the text in itself produce its own Model Reader? How might we best identify the qualities that make readers believe fictional characters really exist? The final third of the book is devoted to a favored Ecoian pastime: enumeration, with the last stop being infinity. An eclectic list of writers who themselves use lists "as a literary device" joins in the fun: Rabelais and Joyce; Homer; Whitman; Alfred Döblin; and the "confessing young novelist" himself in a shameless package of self-referencing and promotion.
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Istituto Italiano di Cultura - Tel Aviv
הפקולטה למדעי הרוח ע"ש לסטר וסאלי אנטין
הפקולטה לאמנויות ע"ש יולנדה ודוד כץ
אוניברסיטת תל אביב
מתכבדים להזמין להרצאתו של
UMBERTO ECO
Professor Emeritus, University of Bologna, President of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, University of Bologna
CONFESSIONS OF A YOUNG NOVELIST
Introduction: Prof. Hana Wirth-Nesher
Department of English and American Studies
ביום חמישי, ה- 24.2.2011, בשעה 16:15
באולם פאסטליכט, בנין מקסיקו
ההרצאה באנגלית
This talk is an introduction to Prof. Eco's new book of the same name. Semiologist, medievalist, and bestselling novelist Eco (The Name of the Rose) confronts the question of what, exactly, creative writing is: Why is a bad poet a creative writer, while a good scientific essayist is not? What is the boundary between fiction and nonfiction? How do novelists put together books? Why do we care about wholly fictional characters like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary? To answer the question, Eco examines the slippery relationship between author, text, and their interpreters. How does the author's intent come to engage the reader? Can the text in itself produce its own Model Reader? How might we best identify the qualities that make readers believe fictional characters really exist? The final third of the book is devoted to a favored Ecoian pastime: enumeration, with the last stop being infinity. An eclectic list of writers who themselves use lists "as a literary device" joins in the fun: Rabelais and Joyce; Homer; Whitman; Alfred Döblin; and the "confessing young novelist" himself in a shameless package of self-referencing and promotion.