THE ONE THOUSAND AND ONE IMPOSSIBILITIES ACROSS SPANISH
AND PORTUGUESE LITERATURES
This course focuses on the analysis of certain books and authors that have expressed different types of literary, philosophical and social impossibilities, attempting through them an approach to the continuously disappearing voices in literature. We will go over a historical panorama of these impossibilities in the Spanish and Portuguese literatures.
Spanish students will have to read the Spanish texts in the original.
Language of Instruction: English
Marking scheme:
a) Midterm multiple choice exam: 25
b) Second multiple choice exam: 25
c) Paper (8 pages): 50
Optional activity
The students will be invited to an optional peripatetic discussion on their written papers (if the weather helps).
PROFESSOR: DANIEL SCARFO/BUTO720/822-4679, scarfo@interchange.ubc.ca
Tentative Schedule
January 6 Presentation
January 13 Borges,”Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”, “The Garden of Forking Paths”
January 20 Borges, “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quijote”, “The Library of Babel”
January 27 Borges, “Averroes’ Search”, story to be presented by students.
February 3 Cortázar, Hopscotch
February 10 Cortázar, Hopscotch
February 24 Guimaraes Rosa, “The third bank of the river
March 3 Midterm multiple choice exam
March 10 Lins, The Queen of the Prisons of Greece
March 17 Pessoa, The Book of Disquietude
March 24 Pessoa, The Book of Disquietude
March 31 Pessoa, The Book of Disquietude
April 7 Rulfo, Pedro Paramo and paper due.
April 14 Peripatetic discussion
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