Howard French | Book talk: The Second Emancipation at Yale Whitney Humanities Center

Join Pulitzer Prize–winning writer and translator Jhumpa Lahiri for the annual Finzi-Contini Lecture as she offers fresh insight into a literary classic.

This lecture will explore the oscillating energy of Thomas Hardy’s final work of fiction, tracing themes of stillness, solitude, perturbation, and permanence. Mythical frameworks will serve to consider the wavering nature of identity, the looming proximity of the underworld, and the condition of feeling both confined and unsettled in this famously unsettling novel.

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Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) Lower Level