To get a richer impression of Sophie Calle's work, her relationship with her mother, and a moving portrait of her mother, this is the book to read and experience:
And here is a New Yorker piece on the Address Book, which created the controversy that threatened a suit for invasion of privacy:
Sophie Calle's "The Address Book," An Excerpt"
The Address Book, now re-published:
The two books by Roland Barthes that I mentioned during class are:
Two remarkable books which re-tell aspects of the Trojan War story are:
Christa Wolf's Cassandra
Christopher Logue's War Music
And don't forget Simone Weil's essay "The Iliad or the Poem of Force" included here:
To follow up on our discussion, you can find an outline of Prof. H. Mark Roelofs' concept of the Confessional Life archived on this blog, here: The Confessional Life
James Wood's key review of Open City in the New Yorker: "The Arrival of Enigmas"
Here is the recent article I mentioned by Teju Cole, on the topic of translation, at New York Review of Books: Carrying a Single Life: On Literature and Translation
Teju Cole Interview: My Looking Became Sacred (YouTube): https://youtu.be/71JZEWGtAm4
Teju Cole on Open City - The John Adams Institute (YouTube): https://youtu.be/CySelcG7C30
The Leonard Lopate Show Book Club: Teju Cole Open City (YouTube): https://youtu.be/W8Qf0Iohtos
Here is the magnificent photo book by Teju Cole and Fazal Sheikh, Human Archipelago (image links to Amazon):
