Literature or Historical Incantation?
– Reconnoitring Magical Realism
– The Art of Fiction Writing
– Book to Film Adaptation

Gabriel García Márquez was a master of the literary genre known as magical realism, in which the miraculous and the real converge. Márquez’s stories are often historical ones located in very specific geographical and cultural spaces that he inhabited until he grew up. And therefore, in his novels and stories, storms rage for years, paper planes drift from the skies like lightning bolts, forlorn lovers meet in dreams, Men with enormous wings visit strange towns, flowers that bleed and corpses that fail to decompose but remain fragrant. This talk by Dr. Omkar Bhatkar shall cover the book ‘Of Love and Other Demons’ and discuss themes such as Hybridity, Ironies of Existence, Magical Realism , Craft of writing Fiction and conclude with the adaptation of the novel into the film

Personal Experiences, Universality and Writing
– Autobiography and Fiction Writing
– Women and Creativity
– Reader and Writer Relationship -Inter subjectivity
– Semi Autobiographical Novels

Of all the existentialist philosophers, Simone De Beauvoir articulates the most compelling theory of the novel in light of her understanding of the relationship between literature and philosophy. Yet her critical work on the philosophical significance of novelistic realism have gone largely ignored by scholars, who consider her novels philosophical insofar as they explore existentialist themes and subjects . This talk by Dr. Omkar Bhatkar shall look more into her thoughts about philosophical literature, intersubjectivity, reader-writer relationship , women and writing. Also the talk shall reflect upon Beauvoir’s semi autobiographical works such as ‘Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter’ (1958) and ‘A Very Easy Death’ (1964).