Do you want to talk to Günter Grass, the Nobel Prize winner whose novel The Tin Drum belongs to the modern classics? He is also a soccer fan and we may participate over satellite when he reads his works in the Freiburg soccer stadium.

Use modern technology while discussing European literature with your peers in Europe.

 Join us for an experiment in:

 GERM 222: Re-Inventing Story-Telling:
Contemporary German Literature

 The official course description reads:

 Younger German authors seem to be finding—or inventing—a new voice for themselves. As The New Yorker recently put it, “storytelling has probably never been more inventively re-inventive.”  During the semester we will read the works of several contemporary German authors—in translation—and look at the process of “making it” as a writer in one’s own culture and “infiltrating” another culture through translation.  The course will be much more than Americans reading someone else’s literature, however.  Whenever possible we will be joined by German literary critics and by the American translators of the works we discuss—and by the authors themselves.  In some cases this will take place live, at Colgate; in others cases, via video-conferencing.  Taught in English.   German concentration credit will be given for those who participate in the FLAC component (see “Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum” on page 33 of the current Colgate Catalogue).