Classic literature bookclub
Do you like reading classic novels or poetry? We are a friendly group of book lovers that like exploring classic literature from all over the world. Each month we will select a classic work and have an in-person discussion around it. Anything from Austen to Zola is fair game. You are welcome to read the book in your preferred language, however the discussion will be organised in small groups in English. Please see more information below.
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Det finns 4 lediga platser.
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Torsdag 7 maj18:00 - 19:45
More information about the bookclub
You can read the book in your preferred language but the discussion will be in English in small groups. The book is available in different languages (however not in English) through interlibrary loan.
Contact Stockholm stadsbibliotek after the 01/03/26 to request an interlibrary loan or contact another library if you have another library membership.
MAY
In May we will be discussing your thoughts after having read "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn, the first published novel from the controversial Nobel Prize winning Russian author of "The Gulag Archipelago".
In the madness of World War II, a dutiful Russian soldier is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to ten years in a Siberian labor camp. So begins this masterpiece of modern Russian fiction, a harrowing account of a man who has conceded to all things evil with dignity and strength.
First published in 1962, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" is considered one of the most significant works ever to emerge from Soviet Russia. Illuminating a dark chapter in Russian history, it is at once a graphic picture of work camp life and a moving tribute to man’s will to prevail over relentless dehumanization.
JUNE
Kallocain by Karin Boye
From Goodreads: “This is a novel of the future, profoundly sinister in its vision of a drab terror. Ironic and detached, the author shows us the totalitarian World-state through the eyes of a product of that state, scientist Leo Kall. Kall has invented a drug, kallocain, which denies the privacy of thought and is the final step towards the transmutation of the individual human being into a 'happy, healthy cell in the state organism.' For, says Leo, 'from thoughts and feelings, words and actions are born. How then could these thoughts and feelings belong to the individual? Doesn't the whole fellow-soldier belong to the state? To whom should his thoughts and feelings belong then, if not to the state?'
As the first-person record of Leo Kall, scientist, fellow-soldier too late disillusioned to undo his previous actions, Kallocain achieves a chilling power and veracity that place it among the finest novels to emerge from the strife-torn Europe of the twentieth century.”
There are several copies available at the Stockholm public library. SVT produced a miniseries in 1981; available (in Swedish) on SVT play.
JULY
Dune by Frank Herbert (1965)
From Goodreads
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for...
When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined.
