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Brattleboro Great Books Group

Monday, March 2 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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The Brattleboro Great Books Group will be discussing Fyodor Doyevsky’s novel “The Devils” (a.k.a. “the Daemons” and “The Possessed”) on Monday, March 2nd, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the Mezzanine Quiet Room of the Brooks Memorial Library.

“The Devils” (approx. 668 pp., any edition) is an emotionally harrowing, structurally messy story of a group of mostly upper-class provincial intellectuals in 1860’s and 1870’s Russia. Its  characters are striking, multi-faceted and memorable. Although I am reading the Penguin Classic Edition translated by David Marshack, due to failing eyesight, I am relying on a YouTube, 3-part narrated edition (the one with a sinister illustration of three ominous characters). Each one, narrated by an excellent actor, is approximately 10+ hours, or requiring a 30+ hour commitment, but well worth your time.

April 6th discussion will be Volume I, “Swann’s Way,” of Marcel Proust’s 7-volume opus “Remembrance of Times Past” (A la recherche du gems perdu”)

For further information,  email Michael N. LANDIS, at emagicmtman@gmail.com, or call him at (802) 257-1851).

In case of inclement weather, the discussion will be again deferred.

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