Honoré de Balzac was born on May 20th, 1799 and died on August 18th, 1850. He is best known for his magnum opus, La Comédie humaine. He is considered one of the exponents of realism […]
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James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882 in Dublin, Ireland and died on January 13, 1941. He was a world renowned Irish author or Ulysses (1922) and Dubliners (1914). We will be reading three short stories […]
Flannery O’Connor
Flannery O’Connor was born on March 25, 1925 and died on August 3, 1964. She was an American novelist and short story writer well known for her Southern Gothic style. Her Complete Stories, published posthumously, […]
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Мико́ла Васи́льович Го́голь, was born on March 31st, 1809 and died on March 4th, 1852. He was a Russian novelist and playwright of Ukrainian origin. While he critiqued the Russian elite and […]
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882 in Dublin, Ireland and died on January 13, 1941. He was a world renowned Irish author or Ulysses (1922) and Dubliners (1914). «For myself, I […]
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood was born on November 18, 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She is a novelist, poet, literary critic and essayist. According to her online Wikipedia profile, she has published 17 books of poetry, 16 […]
Ralph Ellison & the Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison was born in Oklahoma, U.S.A. on March 1, 1913. He was a novelist, literary critic and scholar who was first trained as a musician at the Tuskegee Institute from 1933 to 1936. His […]
Virginia Woolf on Reading
Poems and novels, histories and memoirs, dictionaries and blue-books; books written in all languages by men and women of all tempers, races, and ages jostle each other on the shelf. And outside the donkey brays, […]
Things Fall Apart
One of the reasons the Café Literario meets is to explore different cultures through literature. Reading broadens our worldview and if we read virtuously, it can increase our solidarity with people who are very […]
The Literature of Resistance
In order to counter the hate, irrational distrust and the bigotry of today’s oligarchy, we will dedicate our first meeting in February to the literature of resistance. Literature in a post-truth society reminds us that human […]
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