We continue with the Reading Club meetings to analyze and discuss different works of North American literature, in a new format and with a new facilitator.
After a prior individualized reading, the works will be discussed in groups on the day of the meeting. We have María Willstedt as moderator who will make a brief introduction, ask questions and encourage the conversation.
For the month of January we will focus on the story “La gitanilla” by Willa Cather.
are available Internet in Spanish but you can also read in any of the editions published in paper.
“Wilella Sibert Cather, born in Black Creek Valley, Virginia, in 1873 and better known as Willa Cather, was an American writer of novels and short stories who also worked as a journalist and taught Latin and Greek at a school. secondary. After journalism and teaching, she decided to dedicate herself completely to literature, for which she settled in New York with her partner Edith Lewis until her death in 1947. Famous for her stories, in which she portrayed the daily life of the inhabitants of United States, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One of Ours, a novel set in the First World War. My Ántonia, A Lost Lady, Shadows on the Rock or the poetry book April twilights They are other of his most notable works. With all of them he achieved the favor of critics and the public, for the use of a very personal and close expression in the descriptions of common places and situations, easily recognizable by the public of the time. ”
Taken from Maenads editorial.
Free activity with limited capacity.