INFORMATION AND APPLICATION

"The Literary Insight Award is designed to encourage students to explore literature in translation in the hope they might discover the extraordinary richness of literature written in another country and in another time. It invites them to discover how despite historical and cultural differences, such literature addresses enduring questions that remain a part of our contemporary human condition."

REQUIREMENTS

This award is open to any full-time (12 units undergraduate / 6 units graduate) upper division English Major who Minor who has a 3.0 GPA, and to any Graduate Student in English who has a 3.5 GPA. Students must be attending school full time at the time of application and submission. Applicants are required to write an essay of 1200-1500 words on one of the novels listed below. Students must submit their essays to the English Department Office (CLV 103) along with their completed applications by 5:00 pm, Wednesday November 7, 2007. The writer of the first place essay will be given $350. The writer whose essay is given an Honorable Mention will receive $150.

BOOK LIST:

Homer: Iliad (Classical Greece)

Cervantes: Don Quixote (Spain)

de Lafayette: The Princess of Cleves (France)

Goethe: Faust (Germany)

Stendhal: The Red and the Black (France)

Turgenev: Fathers and Sons (Russia)

Dostoevsky: The Idiot or The Brothers Karamazov (Russia)

Tolstoy: Anna Karenina or The Death of Ivan Ilych (Russia)

Gide: The lmmoralist (France)

Proust: Swan's Way (France)

Kafka: The Trial or The Castle or The Metamorphosis (Czechoslovakia)

Mann: Death in Venice (Germany)

Hesse: Steppenwolf (Germany)

Unamuno: Saint Manuel El Bueno (Spain)

Kazantzakis: The Last Temptation of Christ (Greece)

Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude (Columbia)

Solzhenitsen: The First Circle (Russia)

Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Czechoslovakia)

 

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