Set in part in a hairdresser’s salon in regional France, Clara Reads Proust by Stéphane Carlier is an engaging and unusual novel about how reading Proust changes a young woman’s life for the better. Some of the many underlying questions it answers include: Why read Proust? . . . What lies behind the image ? . . . Proust and Ernaux as observers of the zeitgeist . . . Proust suffering from the Ehlers–Danlos Syndrome and its impact . . . Differences and parallels between the reading cultures of England and France . . . Proust: A Family Novel by Laure Murat . . . So tune in to find out why our book club readers recommend Clara reads Proust. [34:41 minutes ]
Upcoming translation book club discussions at Hatchards, Piccadilly, meeting in person on the second Monday of each month at 6pm:
Monday 13 January
Record of a Night Too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami (Pushkin Press)
“The book incorporates three short stories of an abstract and surreal nature which the translator Lucy North has managed to capture in this well thought-out and ambitious translation . . . ther seem to draw much more heavily on traditional Japanese folklore, mythology and superstition,£ Harry Martin, The Japan Society
Monday 10 February
Fathers and Fugitives by S J Naude (Europa)
“A novel of entanglements, interventions and failures, which constantly returns to the image of the fragile connection between child and parent,” Irish Times
“What a mesmerizing, moving book, written ― and translated by the wonderful Michiel Heyns ― with such crystalline clarity,” Neel Mukherjee, Bomb Magazine
Monday 10 March
Elena Knows by Claudia Pineiro (Charco Press)
“A highly accomplished and original novel, translated with great sensitivity to tone and atmosphere by Frances Riddle,” Irish Times
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