You are cordially invited to attend the following event at the Institute
of Germanic Studies,
29 Russell Square, London WC1B
Thursday 8 February, 5.30 for 6pm
PATRICIA DUNCKER
The Uncanny Replicant: E.T.A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann
Patricia Duncker was born in the West Indies. She teaches writing,
literature and feminist theory at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth
and lives for part of the year in France. Her first novel, the
bestselling Hallucinating Foucault, won the McKitterick Prize in 1997.
She subsequently published a collection of short stories, Monsieur
Shoushana's Lemon Trees, and another novel, James Miranda Barry. In her
lecture, Patricia Duncker will be looking at a particularly impressive
story by one of the most fascinating Romantic writers.
"Patricia Duncker should be made a DBE, elected to the Académie
Française and have a statue erected in the main square of her home
town." (Louis de Bernières)
The talk is part of a lecture series organised by the Goethe-Institut
London in collaboration with the Institute of Germanic Studies.
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