“Character Development” — third session of the course “Theory and Practice of Experimental Writing. Block II”

“Character Development” — third session of the course “Theory and Practice of Experimental Writing. Block II”

In his poetic essay “Self-Portrait in the Study,” philosopher Giorgio Agamben attempts to answer the question: “What remains of the sequence of days and years we have lived as best we could — following a necessity whose logic we still cannot decipher — and at the same time lived as circumstances dictated, almost by chance?”

Drawing on Agamben’s reflections — and our own — we will work on creating character images. We will discuss how the personalities of characters and their subjectivity are reflected across different layers of a literary work.