Raw Reading Club (Exeter Phoenix) – Bohumil Hrabal, Closely Watched Trains

Bohumil Hrabal, Closely Watched Trains.

Miloš Hama is a young railroad apprentice in wartime Czechoslovakia. But he has other things on his mind besides the war – losing his virginity, gossip at the railway station…  A touching and humorous portrait of a sympathetic character by a Czech master.

Raw Reading is a new study group. Each month, we will read a short classic work of about 100 pages. You’ll be given suggestions for what to look out for, and questions to prompt your own responses in good time for the monthly meetings. These will be seminars in which we share our thoughts and consider key aspects of literature: themes, style, narrative techniques, interpretation and more. There will be suggestions on further reading to follow up on the set texts.

Through the course, you will exercise your powers of close reading and meet some seriously brilliant writing from different times and cultures. The classics are for everyone. Join us to take your enjoyment of literature to new levels!

Exeter Phoenix  – 14.00 -16.00  @ £50