Gonçalo M. Tavares: Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique (part 1)

5 Dezembro 2017, 10:00 • Helena Carvalhão Buescu

A dialogue between Tavares' novel and Goethe's Faust as well as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (as well as Ridley Scott's movie Prometheus): the idea of knowledge as a means for creation but also as a kind of transgression; apprenticeship and the possibility of overcoming the master's figure (reference to the Bildungsroman); tension between good knowledge and bad morals; power and vulnerability.