Kundera leaves us with some thought-provoking ideas. The novelist is neither a historian nor a prophet: he is an explorer of existence.
Category: Book Clubs
Reconsidering What is a Modern Classic Book: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
In this article, Murray Ellison considers how we might consider books written in the last 70 years as Classics and considers Kazuo’s, The Remains of the Day as a modern classic.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is Drawn from Muriel Spark’s Life
Don Wilms lead the Richmond, Virginia (RVA) Classic Bookclub Discussion of The Prime of Miss Brodie in April 2022
Race and Gender in Kate Chopin’s Short Story, “Desiree’s Baby”
by Mary Ramsey Evans… While Kate Chopin is most often remembered for her controversial novel, The Awakening (1898), she also wrote almost one hundred short stories, many of them published
Is A Gentleman in Moscow A Modern Classic?
A Review by James L. Evans* (with Introduction by Litchatte Editor, Murray Ellison) In early January, 2022, author James L. Evans led our first RVA Classic Bookclub (of Richmond,
The Enduring Popularity and Mysteries of Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Hamlet Book Club Review by Professor Wade Curry By Wade Curry is Dean Emeritus at the College of New Jersey. He directed plays and taught theatre and English courses there
No thanks for my service! The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
Murray Ellison has been haunted by The Yellow Birds and has re-read it several times since it was published in 2012. That is why he offered to moderate The RVA
Active Verses Contemplative and the Injury to the Title Character in Tess of the d’Urbervilles
This Litchatte is a writeup by Don Wilms (see photo below) from his March 2021 RVA Classic Bookclub discussion 0f Tess of d’Urbervilles* Steeped in the traditions of centuries
How Tom Sawyer Inspired Me to Start the RVA Classic Book Club
No, I didn’t have to trick others into whitewashing a wall. But in this column, I will explain why and how the RVA Classic book was formed, and how
George Bernard Shaw and Saint Joan
* By Wade Curry On February 5, 2021, the RVA (Richmond) Classics Book Club met via Zoom to discuss Shaw’s, Saint Joan. This play apparently convinced the Nobel committee to
