Summer Series No.3 - Água Viva by Clarice Lispector

Clarice Lispector — Água Viva
Wed 1 & 8 Jul
A short, intensely strange book by the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector - not quite a novel, not quite a prose poem, but a sustained address from a painter to an absent lover, written as if in real time. The book has no plot in any ordinary sense; it works instead by accumulation of perception, image, and philosophical fragment. Two weeks gives us space to sit for a while with the text, which resists summary and almost demands re-reading.

Who are we?
We're a reading group that welcomes all - young, old, completely new to philosophy or well versed, from keen students to those who've never darkened the door of a lecture room. We read both long & short texts, but you don't need to join at the very start of our longer reads - you can come along at any stage of the journey. Our conversations are lively, wide-ranging & respectful.

We usually head to the pub to continue the discussion after our meetings.