Bucket List Books: Reading Joyce and Proust

From 6 Feb
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The French Institute and the Irish Cultural Centre invite you to explore two monuments of literature, James Joyce’s Ulysses and Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past in a new reading group.

Led by Jack Chellman, an expert on Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, this book club is the occasion to discover these masterpieces as their authors intended: as wonderful and strange. Silly and unpredictable. And most important, all for us.

Each week, participants will read a section of Ulysses and of Remembrance of Things Past in advance, preferably using the following editions: Remembrance of Things Past (Paperback, Penguin Classics Edition), and Ulysses: Annotated Students’ Edition (Paperback, Penguin Modern Classics Edition).

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  • Price: Free

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No prior knowledge of Joyce, Proust or other literature is necessary: all are welcome! 

Please note that locations will alternate between La Médiathèque of the French Institute and the Irish Cultural Centre

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About Jack Chellman

Jack Chellman is a Marshall Scholar and climate campaigner in London. He wrote his undergraduate thesis on Finnegans Wake and presented that work at the 2019 North American James Joyce Symposium in Mexico City. In 2022 he led the Ulysses Centenary Book Club through the London Irish Centre. In 2023 he led the Finnegans Wake Book Club through the Irish Cultural Centre and the Camden Council

Co-hosted by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni and the Irish Cultural Centre

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