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Why do we think people write novels? What happens if you spend a lifetime writing novels without being interested in categories like 'plot' and 'character'? These and other questions will be explored in this talk from the point of view of one who's neither a 'natural' reader nor writer of novels, but finds that they're drawn to it repeatedly as a writer. What are the structural peculiarities of the novel that such an approach wishes to take advantage of, while ignoring the novel's conventional requirements? Why turn to the novel when it's possible to just as well write an essay or memoir about the same subjects?
When?
Tuesday, December 1, 2020 · 5:30 p.m.
London
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Price
Free
Language
English
Who can attend
Anyone with the event link can attend
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    Amit Chaudhuri

    Amit Chaudhuri was born in Calcutta in 1962 and grew up in Bombay. He was a student at the Cathedral and John Connon School, Bombay, took his first degree, in English, from University College London, and wrote his doctoral dissertation on D H...
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    Professor Adam Smyth

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    Teaching: Papers on English literature from 1350 to 1660; graduate teaching in early modern literature, including the history of the book 1450-1650.

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