About us
There’s a new book club in the town and it’s lit!
You’re very familiar with the dread of impending end of the book you’re immersed in? Know the exhaustion of the day after staying up all night just to get through that next chapter? You’re unabashedly proud of your tsundoku tendencies? And above all - can’t stop thinking about what you just read and absolutely need to talk about it all with the fellow sufferers?
Then join “It’s lit!”, the newest book club in Antwerp, where we’ll choose (the hardest part!), read and discuss all from literary classics, debate stirring books and the hottest picks of the moment, hoping to avoid that horror of readgret!
We’ll try to have some structure to our discussions in order to keep everybody engaged and to make even the newest of newbies feel at ease.
All welcome, but please leave any sort of bigotry between your own four walls.
Upcoming events
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Funbruary: “Northanger Abbey” by Jane Austen
Beestenbos, Sint-Andriesplaats 17,, Antwerp, BENot much unlike Emma Woodhouse we have presumed what everyone would like to be delighted with this Funbruary - Jane Austen!
As fun is the watchword we decided on “Northanger Abbey”!
What better for a book club than a novel about novels!
“Northanger Abbey” is deriving much of its energy and humor from mocking the tropes of the sentimental novel of the eighteenth century— Austen wrote it in reaction to the hugely popular and highly sensational gothic novels of Ann Radcliffe and her imitators, books that dominated the circulating libraries of England in the late eighteenth and very early nineteenth centuries. And yet, despite its somewhat broad satire of the effect of novel-reading on a mind like Catherine’s, “Northanger” is no churlish attack on the novel. It’s not even an attack on the gothic novel. It is, rather, a rebuttal to such critiques, albeit one so elegant, and so conversant in the various arguments against the novel and its readers, that its radicalness has often passed unnoticed.10 attendees
Past events
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