Paris Salons September 17th &18th

September Salons in Paris

·        PARADISE LOST  BY John Milton  Saturday September 17^th 5-10 PM (room for 3 participants)

·        Frankenstein  by Mary Shelley Sunday September 18^th 4-8:30 PM

*Please register by Saturday September 10^th*

Each salon costs 45€; the details and opening notes for each will be provided once the registration has been completed.

Paradise Lost  is, as one Salon participant put it, “ PL is…an IMMENSE piece of English Literature. The language is mind boggling, wonderful rhetorical, metaphorical moments…such fabulous imagination…”.  The work is a cornerstone of English literature; a natural bridge between Shakespeare and Joyce, Dante and Mary Shelley…but it is some work! If you are short on time,Frankenstein  is a good choice. At 150 pages, it is a manageable read and the story gallops along- as though pursued—or pursuing—a monster.

Next Paris Salon series: weekend of November 25^th-27^th, works to be determined VOTE NOW!  Some of the choices include:  Jane Eyre (with the Modernist retelling by Jean Rhys- Wide Sargasso Sea) Hamlet, Faulkner, Virginia Woolf (time for The Waves?), Measure for Measure or something completely different…

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