Read, read, read.
If you are interested in American literature and also share your hobbies and impressions with other people, we have two suggestions for you.
El Literary Circle tackles a new cycle from the month of September, “Interwar American Literature”.Jacqueline Cruz, its moderator, explains the reason for this choice: "the interwar period (1918-1939) is one of the most turbulent periods in the history of the Western world, due to the rise of fascism and communism, the crash of Wall Street that gave rise to the Great Depression, and the Spanish Civil War, which had important international resonances. But it is also one of the richest periods of Western art, thanks to the rise of avant-garde movements and the modernism Anglo-Saxon, who intend to break with all the conventions of previous art. American literature is no exception to this cultural boil. The Lost Generation, whose name reflects the prevailing confusion and disorientation among young people after the First World War, converge in this period; the Harlem Renaissance, which represents the first vindictive cultural movement of the Afro-American population; the modernism, which overlaps in some cases with the previous two; and the beginnings of the black novel hard boiled. In this cycle we will read ten novels belonging to these currents”.
The cycle includes authors such as Hilda Doolittle, John Steinbeck, Gertrude Stein or Nella Larsen. Search our catalog for these authors and start enjoying them this summer.
If, in addition to knowing American authors, you want to deepen your knowledge of English, the English Reading Circle is our suggestion. In this case, the monthly discussion focuses on a short story, published in a literary magazine such as Harper's, Paris Review, The New Yorker or Granta. Some of the authors of this year's cycle were Sarah Frisch (“Housebareking”), Eugenides (“Great Experiment”), Auster (“You Remember the Planes”) or Wendell Berry (“The Requirement”). The moderator, at the beginning of each session, proposes to the participants that they assume one of the following roles: Summarizer, Passage Person, Wordsmith, Characterizer, or Culture Collector. The role of each of these “characters” can be found on the library blog (http://iiereadingcircle.wordpress.com/roles-for-the-english-reading-circle/).
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