Riley James is a ....
“He is aware of the many concessions required of the literary artist by the shortcomings of the literary convention.” As a writer he is not altogether at liberty to detach effect from cause. (Samuel Beckett from Proust)
Each daily session will start with a close group reading of either a portion of Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu or a portion of Samuel Beckett’s essay Proust.
The remainder of each day will be broken into two parts: section discussion and four hours of personal writing. The material written by students will be collected and published in a fictitious volume Writer / Reader / Beckett / Proust by the fictitious Cargo University Press. Attendants are required to have read Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu, 1913 (Scott Moncrieff translation) and Samuel Becket’s Proust, 1930.
The remainder of each day will be broken into two parts: section discussion and four hours of personal writing. The material written by students will be collected and published in a fictitious volume Writer / Reader / Beckett / Proust by the fictitious Cargo University Press. Attendants are required to have read Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu, 1913 (Scott Moncrieff translation) and Samuel Becket’s Proust, 1930.
Vancouver, Canada