FOUND IN TRANSLATION Book Group / Honore de Balzac' Eugenie Grandet
Tuesday, July 20 2010 at 7:00 PM
Please note: this month's discussion has been rescheduled from July 27 to July 20.
In July we're going classic with a novel by Honoré de
Balzac, one of France's
most important writers and a major influence on Proust, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner,
and others. Eugénie Grandet's father is a rich miser, making life unbearably
dull for the young lady. One day she discovers salvation in her dashing,
orphaned cousin Charles, but there's one catch: Charles is penniless, and he
needs a fortune to satisfy Eugénie's father. So off to the West Indies for
Charles . . . We'll be discussing Romanticism, fraught love, the origins of the
novel, and Balzac's epic, 100-book series Comédie
humaine, an immense panorama of post-Napoleon France--of which Eugénie Grandet forms one of the most
important, most acclaimed, parts.
Join us on the fourth Tuesday of every month for spirited
conversation about some of the newest writing hitting the U.S. from all over the globe. No
foreign language knowledge necessary and no continental savvy required (but
will be appreciated!) -- just bring your desire to read some excellent
new books, hand-selected for you by Scott
Esposito, of the Center for the Art
of Translation and The
Quarterly Conversation, who also fearlessly leads the discussion,
brilliantly.. You'll also meet some great new people and chat with them about
the best new fiction from around the world.
