Name: Philosophical Lecture on Guże Ellul Mercer's novel Leli ta' Ħaż-Żgħir | Mark Vella
Start: 2024-11-27T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-11-27T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Malta Council for the Voluntary Sector

$Philosophical Lecture on Gu\u017ce Ellul Mercer's novel Leli ta' \u0126a\u017c-\u017bg\u0127ir | Mark Vella$

The lecture ( to be delivered in English and open to foreign residents) will delve into Ġużè Ellul Mercer's Leli ta' Ħaż-Żgħir (Shadows of the Truth, tr. Godwin Ellul) as a novel whose plot essentially revolves around a central philosophical episode, as exemplified by Platos' Allegory of the Cave, making the novel a text about reading, knowledge, and books. Vella will be going through the different readings, re-readings and potential misreadings of the novel which, as a mainstay of the Maltese canon and a text studied by generations of students, still has the power to elicit questions about its interpretation and its actual function in Maltese culture. The lecture will be in English and open to residents of foreign nationality.
Mark Vella is an author, translator and literary researcher. His academic interests include Maltese realism, where he compiled and annotated Juann Mamo's hitherto unpublished short stories in Ġrajja Maltija (KKM 2010) and wrote studies on Ġużè Orlando, Ġużè Ellul Mercer and John F. Marks, together with dissertations on the Maltese short story.