[Libri] Center for the Book events in October and November

[der Geist, der stets verneint]

Dear Colleagues,

As we begin our (so-called) "fall break," I wanted to inform you of our
schedule for the coming weeks:


(1) The second installment of our film series, "Dangerous Books," will take
place on 23 October, with a screening of "Fahrenheit 451":  7:00 p.m. in
Franklin Patterson Hall East Lecture Hall.



(2) Our seminar is about to start meeting again.

€ The first session will be:

Thursday, 30 October, at the customary time and place:
7:00 p.m., Emily Dickinson Hall, Room 4

We will be discussing the novel, My Name is Red, by Orhan Pamuk:

"At the end of the sixteenth century, the art of Ottoman miniature painting
is in a precarious state. The sultan has commissioned a great book: a
celebration of his life, his empire and the thousandth year of the Hejira,
to be illuminated by the best painters in Istanbul. His contractor, Enishte,
wants to splash about in the latest European techniques, but Islam forbids
the use of perspective‹objects must be shown Œaccording to their importance
in Allah¹s mind¹. With fundamentalists on the march, Enishte has the artists
paint just one section of a picture at a time, so they do not realize they
are creating heretical images.

"When the gilder is found dead in a well and Enishte is killed in his
workshop, fear grips the rest of the miniaturists. Is the murderer in their
midst? The sultan demands an answer, and the only clue seems to lie in the
half-finished illustrations . . .

"Brilliantly narrated by a series of clever characters, My Name Is Red is a
stunning brew of mystery, romance and rhapsody on the very nature of art.
Inspired and inspiring, it confirms Orhan Pamuk as a Nobel-calibre artist in
his own right."


If you would like to purchase the book, copies will be available at:

Amherst Books
8 Main Street 

tel.:          256.1547
e-mail:     nat at amherstbooks.com

(The books were scheduled to arrive this week, but there has been a delay.
We will send you a notice when they are available.)




(3) The second seminar session will take place on 13 November (topic to be
determined).



(4) The third installment of the "Dangerous Books" film series will be
Stanley Kubrick's "Lolita," on 20 November.



Thank you very much.  We look forward to seeing you soon.

With best wishes for a pleasant break,

Jim Wald
(for the Hampshire College Center for the Book)


calendar:
http://webevent.hampshire.edu/cgi-bin/webevent.cgi?cmd=opencal&cal=cal9&
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