Exploring Literature
When | 2nd and 4th Mondays in the month, 10:00 |
Where | member's home or via Zoom |
Facilitator | please use the link top right to send a message |
Next meetings 11th March and 25th March at a members' house or via Zoom
The next book, starting in January - Boris Pasternak’s ‘Dr Zhivago’ – in translation of course!
See the Groups Bulletin for details.
Are there great works of literature that you feel you should read and might get round to one day, but never seem to find the time? That was the main reason for starting our U3A group 'Exploring Literature'.
A well-established group, we have read and discussed a wide variety of literature, all chosen by members of the group, ranging from Homer and Virgil to Conrad, Joyce, Beckett, Jane Austen and Mark Twain.
Previous books
- ‘The Old Wives’ Tale’ by Arnold Bennet.
- Homer's 'Odyssey', in the new translation by Emily Wilson.
- One of our members composed this muse on the 2022 sessions:
The books of ’22 are read, a thousand pages turned,
The chosen authors in our sequence duly read
Aloud. Some round a table, in public room, their comfort spurned,
And some on comfy cushions, from their screens (with thanks to Fred).
First, we took in an Outsider, and pondered what he learned,
Delving for meaning in the unsaid and the said.
Then trekked for many a mile while Sancho girned
To see Quixote blinded by Romance, his wisdom fled.
We watched as all the thaler the Buddenbrooks had earned
Slowly turned (in Tom’s accounts) from black to red,
And, last of all, we slogged through barren country, bleak and churned,
So that the Childe could persevere, confront his fear, and lose his head.
All done. Camus, Mann, Cervantes, Browning are now adjourned
And Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.
Soon ’23 comes green and fresh, the New Year corner turned
And, glory be! There’ll be another set of authors to be read!
Bring it on!