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6:30 PM, EST
Lisez la littérature autrichienne !
Book club|
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Goethe-Institut Montreal, Montreal
- Language French
- Price Free admittance - RSVP required
Our upcoming book club will feature an Austrian novel, and will take place Wednesday November 22 at 6:30 pm at the Goethe-Institut Montreal.
We will discuss the short story "The Sealed Train", by Stefan Zweig (translated by Anthea Bell). The story can be found in the collection “Triumph and Disaster”. The discussion will be held in French and moderated by Michaela Leuprecht, translator.
Please confirm your presence before November 21 at the following address:
lisezleurope-mtl@goethe.de.
About the book:
A single Yes, a single No, a Too Soon or a Too Late makes that hour irrevocable for hundreds of generations while deciding the life of a single man or woman, of a nation, even the destiny of all humanity.
Five vivid dramatizations of some of the most pivotal episodes in human history, from the Fall of Constantinople to Scott's doomed attempt to reach the South Pole, bringing the past to life in brilliant technicolor.
Included in this collection:
"The Field of Waterloo": A fascinating little known story of Napoleon's defeat.
"The Race to Reach the South Pole": The failed expedition of the English to discover the South Pole first.
"The Conquest of Byzantium": Sultan Mahomet's defeat of Byzantium through a neglected door.
"The Sealed Train": Lenin's triumphant return from exile.
"Wilson's Failure": The Treaty of Versailles is signed.
(indigo.ca)
About the author:
Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Between the wars, Zweig was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Fear. In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he left Austria, and lived in London, Bath and New York--a period during which he produced his most celebrated works: his only novel, Beware of Pity, and his memoir, The World of Yesterday. He eventually settled in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press. (indigo.ca)
The book can be obtained (in French) at the following bookstores:
Librairie Gallimard: (10% discount for Lisez l’Europe members)
librairie@gallimardmontreal.com
514 499-2012
Librairie du Square au Carré St-Louis:
librairiedusquare@librairiedusquare.com
514 845-7617
Librairie du Square - Outremont:
outremont@librairiedusquare.com
514 303-0612
In English, the book and ebook are available at indigo.ca.
French copies (book and ebook) are also available through the Montreal public library network.
We will discuss the short story "The Sealed Train", by Stefan Zweig (translated by Anthea Bell). The story can be found in the collection “Triumph and Disaster”. The discussion will be held in French and moderated by Michaela Leuprecht, translator.
Please confirm your presence before November 21 at the following address:
lisezleurope-mtl@goethe.de.
About the book:
A single Yes, a single No, a Too Soon or a Too Late makes that hour irrevocable for hundreds of generations while deciding the life of a single man or woman, of a nation, even the destiny of all humanity.
Five vivid dramatizations of some of the most pivotal episodes in human history, from the Fall of Constantinople to Scott's doomed attempt to reach the South Pole, bringing the past to life in brilliant technicolor.
Included in this collection:
"The Field of Waterloo": A fascinating little known story of Napoleon's defeat.
"The Race to Reach the South Pole": The failed expedition of the English to discover the South Pole first.
"The Conquest of Byzantium": Sultan Mahomet's defeat of Byzantium through a neglected door.
"The Sealed Train": Lenin's triumphant return from exile.
"Wilson's Failure": The Treaty of Versailles is signed.
(indigo.ca)
About the author:
Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Between the wars, Zweig was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Fear. In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he left Austria, and lived in London, Bath and New York--a period during which he produced his most celebrated works: his only novel, Beware of Pity, and his memoir, The World of Yesterday. He eventually settled in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press. (indigo.ca)
The book can be obtained (in French) at the following bookstores:
Librairie Gallimard: (10% discount for Lisez l’Europe members)
librairie@gallimardmontreal.com
514 499-2012
Librairie du Square au Carré St-Louis:
librairiedusquare@librairiedusquare.com
514 845-7617
Librairie du Square - Outremont:
outremont@librairiedusquare.com
514 303-0612
In English, the book and ebook are available at indigo.ca.
French copies (book and ebook) are also available through the Montreal public library network.
Location
Goethe-Institut Montreal
In the form of a local corporation
1626 boul. St-Laurent
Bureau 100
Montreal H2X 2T1
Kanada
In the form of a local corporation
1626 boul. St-Laurent
Bureau 100
Montreal H2X 2T1
Kanada