AdminApr 17, 20201 minLove French Literature? Why not participate in our monthly READING GROUPUntil we can all meet together face to face again, our traditional reading group is switching online via Zoom.
CarolineDec 4, 20193 min The Choix Goncourt UK The Prix Goncourt is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose w...
AdminJan 23, 20199 minWar as the ultimate lie - LeMaitre's 'The Great Swindle' PLEASE NOTE: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS With a sort of trepidation, I have next to my computer keyboard a copy of the Penguin Book of ...
AdminJan 23, 20199 min Lydie Salvayre: Into the Rawness of the PsycheIt was January 16, 2017, and we were in the pit of winter. The huge buildings of South Kensington- the Museums, the high terraced housing...
AdminJan 23, 20197 minThe pursuit of the banal with Alain Mabanckou Often, Africans are portrayed as an anonymous mass without individuality - for example, in Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’, which is ...
AdminJan 23, 201920 minBaudelaire - His Commitment to Ambivalence…Baudelaire, in ‘Les Fleurs du Mal’, is Janus- like. He looks forwards, and he looks backwards. His verse forms are, on the whole, traditi...
AdminJan 23, 20196 minRoland Barthes - The Philosopher as OutsiderMid- December had arrived in South Kensington, and winter was descending upon buildings and streets, as if it could swallow up everything...
AdminMar 8, 201711 minThe End of Eddy: The complexity of intoleranceIt was February the sixteenth in South Kensington, only a short while after Valentine’s Day, and maybe wisps still remained of the atmosp...
