30-12-2024, Ellecom
This third session will establish the WONDROUS CALS Book Club as a bona fide tradition. I’m certain it’s going to be another wondrous evening.
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The Joy of Revolution
Stories of oppression are a particularly popular and essential domain of literature. The struggle to be free, to be seen and to be heard is often presented through the lens of suffering and sacrifice. However, there’s also branch of rebellion that is joyful, exciting and rambunctious. In order to challenge stifling regimes in our own lives, let’s investigate the lessons expressed in the stories of merry mayhem, delightful destruction and happy resistance.
Required reading: none!
Short read: “Bartleby the Scrivener, A Story of Wall-Street” by Herman Melville. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11231
Longer read: Bea Wulf by Zach Wienersmith and Boulet
Extra reading: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, Endgame by Samuel Beckett, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf.