SAM READING GROUPS

The Novel and the Truth

Mustafa Özel

Saturday, October 22, 2016

The aim of this reading group is discussing specific novels at the context of basic themes related with modernity and capitalism.  Novels will be chosen among classics of Turkish and World Literature and reading group will be coordinated by Mustafa Özel.  Possible topics and novels listed in there:

·         Decrease of the aristocracy, degeneration of aristocratic values (Cervantes, Don Kişot; Jane Austen, Persuasion; Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables; Yakup Kadri, Kiralık Konak…)

·         Capitalism and capitalist entrepreneurship (Defoe, Robinson Crusoe; Goethe, Faust; Balzac,Cesar Biraeutto; Zola,The Ladies’ Paradise; Melville, Moby Dick; Ahmed Midhat, Müşahedat; Halid Ziya,Ferdi ve Şürekası…)

This reading group will be conducted in Turkish and requires application until 23rd September 2016, Friday on 18.00.

THE APPLICATION TIME HAS BEEN ENDED.

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