September International Book Club
- Event Type
- Social/Informal Event
- Sponsor
- International and Area Studies Library
- Location
- Main Library (1408 W Gregory Dr.), Room 106
- Date
- Sep 29, 2021 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Registration
- Registration
- Contact
- Caryn Corliss
- carynmc2@illinois.edu
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- Originating Calendar
- International and Area Studies Library
Join the International and Area Studies Library for a monthly discussion of international novels and short stories selected by area specialist librarians.
For the month of September the club will be discussing "Too Loud a Solitude" by Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal.
Explore Eastern Europe through a novel that “celebrates the power and the indestructibility of the written word.” Written during a time when Czechoslovak authorities were trying to purge library collections of books and authors that did not fit their ideological orthodoxy and were to be silenced, this novel was self-published in 1976 due to political censorship, and officially published in 1989.
Discussion will be lead by Central European Studies Librarian Prof. Marek Sroka.