Tuesday, October 15, 2024 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground (1864), his first consequential post-Siberian imprisonment publication, explores the tragicomedy of humanity’s entrapment in the confines soul-sapping modernity and serves as the foundation of the existential and metaphysical concepts he addresses in the Great Five: Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, The Adolescent, and Brothers Karamazov.
In commemoration of the 160th anniversary of the novel’s publication, The Iowa City Book Festival presents an evening with two parts:
At 4:30 p.m., University of Iowa Adjunct Assistant Professor Anna Barker will present the talk “From Peter the Great to Napoleon the Lesser: Dostoevsky and the Great Men of History.”
At 6 p.m., Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film that is the novel’s most famous US adaptation, will be screened. Barker will lead a post-screening discussion immediately following, where she will discuss the way the film explores the issues of underage woman trafficking, prostitution, gun violence, war caused PTSD, and urban decay of the U.S. in the 1970s through the prism of Dostoevsky’s tale of moral decline and social alienation.
This event is live and in-person, and will be streamed live on the ICPL YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/thelibrarychannel
This event is part of the 2024 Iowa City Book Festival and is sponsored by the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature.
Iowa City Public Library Iowa City Public Library America/Chicago publicMeeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C, Meeting Room D
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground (1864), his first consequential post-Siberian imprisonment publication, explores the tragicomedy of humanity’s entrapment in the confines soul-sapping modernity and serves as the foundation of the existential and metaphysical concepts he addresses in the Great Five: Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, The Adolescent, and Brothers Karamazov.
In commemoration of the 160th anniversary of the novel’s publication, The Iowa City Book Festival presents an evening with two parts:
At 4:30 p.m., University of Iowa Adjunct Assistant Professor Anna Barker will present the talk “From Peter the Great to Napoleon the Lesser: Dostoevsky and the Great Men of History.”
At 6 p.m., Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film that is the novel’s most famous US adaptation, will be screened. Barker will lead a post-screening discussion immediately following, where she will discuss the way the film explores the issues of underage woman trafficking, prostitution, gun violence, war caused PTSD, and urban decay of the U.S. in the 1970s through the prism of Dostoevsky’s tale of moral decline and social alienation.
This event is live and in-person, and will be streamed live on the ICPL YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/thelibrarychannel
This event is part of the 2024 Iowa City Book Festival and is sponsored by the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature.
If you need disability-related accommodations in order to participate in this event, please contact the Library.
This event is open to the public.
Cosponsor
Cosponsor Organization: Iowa City Book Festival
Cosponsor Name: John Kenyon
Cosponsor Phone: 319-356-5245
