Public Lecture with Professor Alan Lelchuk

Why read the classics?

Why do we read works of literature? This public lecture with award-winning writers, Professor Alan Lelchuk (Dartmouth College), will focus on the special importance of reading great works of literature in our digital age. Professor Lelchuk will discuss the power and pleasures of reading serious works of literature, be they short stories, novels or poetry, and their subsequent aesthetic and moral rewards. It is through such habits of reading that the inner life of the individual can be cultivated and preserved in all its richness.

Distinguished writer, Professor Alan Lelchuk (Dartmouth College), is a Visiting Writer at the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice in April 2017. The author of eight novels, including the lauded Searching for Wallenberg (2015), Prof Lelchuk will be available for consultation with students during his time here. He will also be giving a free public lecture on the importance of reading the classics on Wednesday 5th April. To RSVP for this event, email: rita.horanyi@adelaide.edu.au.