Book Matters                       T/TH 2:00-3:20

This Discovery Course is a special course for freshmen only.  “Books Matter, Book Matters” focuses on books that treat the meaning of books and the great lengths people go to steal books, preserve them, destroy them. These texts portray reading and writing books as profoundly dangerous and incendiary activities.

For more information contact Professor Mara Wade, mwade@illinois.edu.

Texts for Discovery Course, GER 199 

Markus Zusak, The Book Thief                                      Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

Arturo Perez Reverte, Club Dumas                               Umberto Ecco, The Name of the Rose

Geraldine Brooks, People of the Book                          Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Carlos Ruiz Zafón, In the Shadow of the Wind                           Boccaccio, Decamerone

Rabih Alemeddine, Hakawathi                                     Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Teheran                         Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader