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Too much happiness in the Reading Club

NEXT Book Club Santa Eulalia promises. Alice Munro reading, Too much happiness, certainly awake vertigo, fear and seduction, from up to down. Considered a masterpiece by the great American authors, Munro, It has been translated into twenty languages ​​long.

“Alice Munro gives each of his stories depth, intelligence and precision that many novelists tripping over themselves in the work of a lifetime. " Jury Man Booker International Prize 2009.

A family strolls on a Saturday afternoon for n forest where the treetops conceals treacherous caves. The eldest son falls into one, and his whole life is affected by the discovery of this truth: under the smooth surface of events cracks that attract us are. The characters in this collection of ten stories experience all fall into a big crack.

If it were not for his stories are raw and run away from sentimentality like the plague, one would think Munro moralise. Who believes that whoever makes, The payment. But no, It's not about this: This is talking about the impossibility of breaking our destiny even though we fight. It is, anyway, to accept that love and plunges us while we refloats; assuming that evil will suffer and we will do the same extent, and that this human nature is reaffirmed. en 2013, the Munro American, considered in Canada, "our Chekhov", recibió el premio Nobel de literatura.

 

Reading Club Santa Eulalia

Too much happiness

Alice Munro

Tuesday, 8 November de2016

Municipal library

20.30 horas

 

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