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đź“š Hamburg's English Literature Society is a MeetUp group for those who would like to geek out and talk about English literature, poetry and movies with fellow literature lovers.
🌹 Event Series: Bring Along a Poem
Bring along a poem you have enjoyed. Listen to the poems that others have enjoyed. We read ancient and modern poems - poems in English or translation. Rhyming poems, free verse, sonnets, villanelles - all are welcomed.
📽️ Event Series: Book vs Book Adaptation
A book adaptation chosen by popular vote, a movie screening in Hafencity, and a discussion on book vs. movie ideas. Takeout is involved. What's not to like?
Bevorstehende Events (4+)
Alles ansehen- BOOK CLUB: AMERICAN PSYCHO by Bret Easton EllisKapitel Drei , Hamburg
“I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning” - Bret Easton Ellis
Themes we are going to explore:
- Masculinity
- “Death of the author”
- Identity through material gain and status
- Violence in literature
- Madness
- Yuppie greed in 1980s New York
- Book vs Movie
Interview with the author: LINK
Can I come without reading the book?
No.Questions about the book TBA
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- BOOK CLUB: AUTHORITY by Jeff VanderMeerKapitel Drei , Hamburg
“A circle looks at a square and sees a badly made circle.”
- Jeff VanderMeer2nd Novel of the "Southern Reach" series.
Themes we are going to explore:
- Bureaucracy and control
- Transformation and evolution
- Fear of the unknown
- Rationality vs. Intuition
- The illusion of control
Interview with the author: SPOTIFY LINK
Can I come without reading the book?
No.Questions about the book TBA
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