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Thao Votang is a novelist in Austin, Texas. Her debut novel Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine was published by Penguin Random House in July 2024. 



Each daily session will start with a close group reading of either a portion of Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu or a portion of Samuel Beckett’s essay Proust

The remainder of each day will be broken into two parts: section discussion and four hours of personal writing.  The material written by students will be collected and published in a fictitious volume Writer / Reader / Beckett / Proust by the fictitious Cargo University Press. Attendants are required to have read Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu, 1913 (Scott Moncrieff translation) and Samuel Becket’s Proust, 1930.Each daily session will start with a close group reading of either a portion of Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu or a portion of Samuel Beckett’s essay Proust

The remainder of each day will be broken into two parts: section discussion and four hours of personal writing.  The material written by students will be collected and published in a fictitious volume Writer / Reader / Beckett / Proust by the fictitious Cargo University Press. Attendants are required to have read Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu, 1913 (Scott Moncrieff translation) and Samuel Becket’s Proust, 1930.

Each daily session will start with a close group reading of either a portion of Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu or a portion of Samuel Beckett’s essay Proust

The remainder of each day will be broken into two parts: section discussion and four hours of personal writing.  The material written by students will be collected and published in a fictitious volume Writer / Reader / Beckett / Proust by the fictitious Cargo University Press. Attendants are required to have read Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu, 1913 (Scott Moncrieff translation) and Samuel Becket’s Proust, 1930.

Each daily session will start with a close group reading of either a portion of Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu or a portion of Samuel Beckett’s essay Proust

The remainder of each day will be broken into two parts: section discussion and four hours of personal writing.  The material written by students will be collected and published in a fictitious volume Writer / Reader / Beckett / Proust by the fictitious Cargo University Press. Attendants are required to have read Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu, 1913 (Scott Moncrieff translation) and Samuel Becket’s Proust, 1930.

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