Literature in Translation Bookclub: Spooky Edition

Name: Literature in Translation Bookclub: Spooky Edition
Start: 2024-10-30T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 1841-A rue Sainte. Catherine Ouest, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H3H 1M2

Schedule

Wed Oct 30 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1841-A rue Sainte. Catherine Ouest, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H3H 1M2 | Montreal, QC

Would you like to explore literature from around the world? This bookclub will select and discuss titles that have been translated from a variety of languages into English. After each meeting, we will collectively decide on the next book.
This October, we will be reading Fernanda Melchor's Hurricane Season . . . The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse has the whole village investigating the murder. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on new details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters—sinners whom most people would write off as irredeemable—forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village. Like Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 or Faulkner’s novels, Hurricane Season takes place in a world saturated with mythology and violence—real violence, the kind that seeps into the soil, poisoning everything around: it’s a world that becomes more and more terrifying the deeper you explore it.
Please join us in store on October 30th, where we will host a meeting for open discourse about translation and world literature! Copies of the book are now available in store for purchase, so come get one ASAP! This event is open to all; masks are optional (they will be provided for free at the door).