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Lecture by Rana DasguptaAlexandria Contemporary Arts ForumJuly 12, 2009 7:00 PM Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF)10 Hussein Hassab Street, Flat 6, Azarita Author of two novels, Rana Dasgupta nonetheless feels that he is working in a waning cultural form. The inescapable centrality of human character to the novel makes it difficult to bend fiction to the condition of the twenty-first century, and condemns the novel, too often, to besiegement and nostalgia. In this lecture, he will tell stories that novels cannot tell- and explain why he draws his inspiration less from literature than from the art world. What is at stake is the question of a contemporary global "citizenship," and the role of various creative practices in elaborating new forms of being. |