Limits to Convenience: Chamisso's Schlemihl As a Cautionary Tale
Please join John Hamilton (Harvard University) and the Department of German
Studies
for a reading of Chamisso's novella and a discussion on the value of saving effort and energy.
John T. Hamilton is the William R. Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of Philology of the Flesh (2018), Security: Politics, Humanity, and the Philology of Care (2013), Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language (2008), and Soliciting Darkness: Pindar, Obscurity, and the Classical Tradition (2003).
