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Online Book Study with Fr. Luis Rodriguez
Topic: Book Study - The Plague by Albert Camus
Time: 10AM
Days: Every week on Tuesdays until May 26, 2020, 7 occurrence(s) on Apr 14, Apr 21, Apr 28, May 5, May 12, May 19, & May 26
We had a good start to our new book study, and we will continue to gather via Zoom to discuss The Plague, Camus' powerful novel about a bubonic plague outbreak in a French Algerian city some time in the 1940s. At the same time, it's also about the reactions of those who live through its devastation. While it's decidedly not a bright novel, it does challenge the reader with existential questions of belief and action, of the what it means to be human when that humanity is tested by harsh trial.
Certainly the book and its themes have resonated strongly in the midst of the present health crisis and a number of people, and more than one writer, have made comparisons between Camus' work and where we find ourselves today. If you could not make our first meeting - and especially since we are not meeting next week - there is still time to get a copy of the book and join the group when we meet again on Tuesday, April 14, at 10am via Zoom. And while it's true that copies of the book are in short supply (on Amazon at least), you can always get a digital (Kindle or Nook) version, or go to other booksellers (my friend was able to order hers from Barnes and Noble), or you may even have kicking round. I would recommend you get a copy of the Stuart Gilbert translation (the novel is, of course, originally written in French) so that we will all be reading the same text and not get too bogged down in the dynamics of translation. By our next meeting we will have read through chapter 5 of the Part One.
I do not think this is an easy book, and I know it will challenge. Still, perhaps in our present context that seems only right. Processing the book and its themes may help to engage with and voice our own anxiety as we live through the days of COVID-19. At the same time, meeting regularly - even if only via Zoom - may help combat the isolation and disorientation attendant with it.
If you would like to participate in this book study, contact Fr. Luis to be mailed the Zoom meeting ID and Password.
Time: 10AM
Days: Every week on Tuesdays until May 26, 2020, 7 occurrence(s) on Apr 14, Apr 21, Apr 28, May 5, May 12, May 19, & May 26
We had a good start to our new book study, and we will continue to gather via Zoom to discuss The Plague, Camus' powerful novel about a bubonic plague outbreak in a French Algerian city some time in the 1940s. At the same time, it's also about the reactions of those who live through its devastation. While it's decidedly not a bright novel, it does challenge the reader with existential questions of belief and action, of the what it means to be human when that humanity is tested by harsh trial.
Certainly the book and its themes have resonated strongly in the midst of the present health crisis and a number of people, and more than one writer, have made comparisons between Camus' work and where we find ourselves today. If you could not make our first meeting - and especially since we are not meeting next week - there is still time to get a copy of the book and join the group when we meet again on Tuesday, April 14, at 10am via Zoom. And while it's true that copies of the book are in short supply (on Amazon at least), you can always get a digital (Kindle or Nook) version, or go to other booksellers (my friend was able to order hers from Barnes and Noble), or you may even have kicking round. I would recommend you get a copy of the Stuart Gilbert translation (the novel is, of course, originally written in French) so that we will all be reading the same text and not get too bogged down in the dynamics of translation. By our next meeting we will have read through chapter 5 of the Part One.
I do not think this is an easy book, and I know it will challenge. Still, perhaps in our present context that seems only right. Processing the book and its themes may help to engage with and voice our own anxiety as we live through the days of COVID-19. At the same time, meeting regularly - even if only via Zoom - may help combat the isolation and disorientation attendant with it.
If you would like to participate in this book study, contact Fr. Luis to be mailed the Zoom meeting ID and Password.
