Hello London readers:
Summer is coming and time for a few more brief studies before we all scatter for various adventures…
Mrs Dalloway: June 24th and July 1st– two meetings: £45
Virginia Woolf’s work makes an ideal study for the Salon. Her writing is challenging to read on one’s own, rich as it is in images, references and details that deliver a powerful emotional and intellectual impact. The Salon format encourages exploration by reading with a group of diverse and questing minds. Together we will work to understand Woolf’s incisive study of human personality – and use some of her contemporaries (Freud, Henri Bergson, Roger Fry) to help make sense of this new writing she creates.
Other possibilities: short story studies (Alice Munro, James Baldwin, Flannery O’Conner. Lorrie Moore…) The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot, The Odyssey (two meeting exploration…) what would you like to study? Respond via email, the contact page or a comment here…
Hi Toby,
Like Ulysses, I’ve tried many times to read Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage – have you ever thought about running a salon on it?
Best, Alex.
Thanks for the suggestion! I have ordered it, will add to my summer read and see if I can squeeze it into the fall line-up. Proust’s Swann’s Way is up first…