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.
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Guest speakers to date have included Jennifer Higgie (author of The Other Side), Amy Hale (author of Ithell Colquhoun - Genius of the Fern Loved Gulley), Stephen Ellcock (author of UnderWorlds and the Cosmic Dance), Cary Mountain (author of Descent and Rising), Gary Bobroff (Jungian speaker, author and founder of Jungian Online), Patrick Harpur (author of books including Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld), New York sculptor, painter and art critic Ann McCoy, and Danny Scopelliti (scholar and founder of Curio Esoterica).
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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.​​
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UPCOMING BOOKS & MEETINGS
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Nadja
By Andre Breton
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To celebrate the centennial of surrealism we will explore this transformative movement through two notable surrealist novels: The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington and Nadja by André Breton. By reading one after the other, we can compare Breton’s foundational voice with Carrington’s uniquely imaginative, feminist perspective, gaining a richer understanding of surrealism’s scope and diversity of voices.
We will start with Nadja by André Breton as it makes sense chronologically and contextually.
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Nadja was originally published in France in 1928 and is considered a book which defined the surrealist movement's attitude toward everyday life.
The principal narrative is an account of the author's relationship with a girl in the city of Paris, the story of an obsessional presence haunting his life. The first-person narrative is supplemented by forty-four photographs which form an integral part of the work -- pictures of various "surreal" people, places, and objects which the author visits or is haunted by in Nadja's presence and which inspire him to mediate on their reality or lack of it. "The Nadja of the book is a girl, but, like Bertrand Russell's definition of electricity as "not so much a thing as a way things happen, " Nadja is not so much a person as the way she makes people behave. She has been described as a state of mind, a feeling about reality, a kind of vision, and the reader sometimes wonders whether she exists at all. yet it is Nadja who gives form and structure to the novel.
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Zoom meeting date
Friday 3rd January
8pm UK time
PAST BOOKS & SPEAKERS
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