Our discussions will include both a thorough examination of the book and our different ways of reading and valuing what we read. By the end of class, each student will arrange these novels on her own list of the seven best novels of the century. The books we will read in this class are guaranteed to help each of us begin to articulate anew why we are attracted to the books we read. We will be looking at such questions about our reading that will help us to define for ourselves alone those things we value in the books we choose to read. No matter our answers, the books we read here and the discussions that we have in class should change and deepen the way we presently view the world.
Good reading does that.
Come to class vigorously prepared to enter the discussions.