THE RED BOOK CLUB
The Red Book Club is a free online bookclub and speaker program with a focus on the unconscious. Books include those on Jungian depth psychology, mythology, alchemy, art and the imagination. After reading each book there is opportunity to meet for a group online zoom discussion.
As part of the program guest authors, academics and artists are invited to speak about a particular book or subject. Guest speakers have included Jennifer Higgie, Amy Hale, Stephen Ellcock, Carly Mountain, Elvia Wilk, Gary Bobroff, Patrick Harpur, Ann McCoy, and Danny Scopelliti.
Initiated during lockdown with an initial small group of 8 people, The membership is now over 800 with people across the world. The book club is open to anyone interested in the subject areas - no obligation to read every month, just join in when a book or speaker grabs your interest. If you would like to join click the link below.
UPCOMING BOOKS & MEETINGS
THE FRUIT OF MY WOMAN
by Han Kang
For our next Red Book Club read, we will be discussing Han Kang’s short story The Fruit of My Woman. In this strange and beautiful story, a woman gradually transforms into plant life, moving away from the pressures of domestic and social life towards another form of existence. The story explores bodily change, refusal, longing and the porous boundary between the human and vegetal world.
Han Kang is a South Korean writer whose books include The Vegetarian, Human Acts, The White Book and We Do Not Part. The Vegetarian, which grew partly out of The Fruit of My Woman, won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, and Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2024. Her writing often attends to violence, grief, silence, transformation and the limits of what the self can endure or express.
A translation of the story by Deborah Smith is available to read online here:
https://granta.com/the-fruit-of-my-woman/
Zoom meeting date
Monday 8th June
8pm UK time
PAST BOOKS & SPEAKERS
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