Keeping Your Eye on the Ball: DeLillo’s Underworld
$500.00
Date: Eight weekly sessions, Tuesdays October 1 to November 19, 2024
Time: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Eastern
Cost: C$500 plus 13% HST (approx. US$335 plus 13% HST)
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LEADER
John Riley has conducted seminars for nearly 40 years, serving on the faculties of Benedictine University, Morton College and while employed at the Great Books Foundation. Both as a teacher and while seeking his degrees, John concentrated on modern and postmodern literature and literary criticism, including the works of Joyce, Camus, Márquez, Ellison and Bolaño.
BOOK
Underworld by Don DeLillo
Scribner (1998)
ISBN-13: 978-0-684-84815-0
Ambitious yet approachable, Underworld is regarded as DeLillo’s masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the 21st century. In it, DeLillo depicts watershed moments of modern history and connects these grand events to gripping stories of private struggles.
In his view, the “greatness” of the American experiment does not vanquish loneliness, nor does it guarantee to individuals a sense of purpose or direction. The question of insignificance, the threat of it….how do we avoid this fate? It is a central concern of the novel.
Underworld is a massive undertaking, but one imminently doable. It is a novel with complexity and subtlety that “opens up” in the seminar setting. A work worthy of a high ranking on anyone’s bucket list!
Practical details
Once you register, you’ll get an order confirmation. We’ll send you the Zoom link and a welcome letter from your leader about 3 weeks before the seminar starts.
Classical Pursuits will record this seminar, and make each session privately available to registered participants for up to two weeks after that session.
Online seminar payments are nonrefundable. Discount codes must be used at the time of purchase.
Seminar group sizes are a minimum of 7 and a maximum of 12. See full terms and conditions for Classical Pursuits online seminars. By registering for a seminar, you agree to abide by our code of conduct.
“I’ve always been a country of one. There’s a certain distance in my makeup, a measured separation like my old man’s, I guess, that I’ve worked at times to reduce, or thought of working, or said the hell with it.”
—Nick Shay
Image: Simon and Schuster
Additional information
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