Book club on Molière’s Tartuffe
As part of Barcelona’s Grec Festival, the city’s libraries will be offering you the chance to read a great universal classic in a virtual book club, through the Tellfy app. Molière’s Tartuffe, or the impostor was first performed in 1669, in France. The central character is one of the most complex characters created by Molière and represents the archetype of hypocrisy, trickery and false devotion to further one's own interests. As a supplement to this reading we’ll have the option of seeing an updated version of this classic in an adaptation by Ernesto Caballero, a director, playwright and theatre manager and former director of the Centro Dramático Nacional.
Participants in the book club will get a 35% discount on tickets to see Tartufo at the Teatre Goya (from 28 June to 10 July).
Led by: Miquel Desclot, a translator and writer
Book club starts on: Monday, 6 June
Final video conference on: Monday, 20 June, at 7 pm
Free activity
Requires booking at: http://tfy.to/bibliotequesbarcelona/tartuf
In collaboration with: Proa
Book club on El burlador de Sevilla, attributed to Tirso de Molina
Barcelona’s libraries are following this year’s Grec Festival programme to offer a virtual book club, through the Tellfy app, dedicated to El burlador de Sevilla, a play attributed to Tirso de Molina and published around 1630 with moralising aims. It is about a libertine who, despite consciously sinning, believes in God and trusts in final repentance and divine clemency for achieving salvation.
Participants in the book club will get a 50% discount on tickets to see El burlador de Sevilla at the Teatre Grec (3 and 4 June).
Led by: Albert Arribas, a playwright
Starts: Thursday, 9 June
Final video conference on: Thursday, 30 June, at 7 pm
Free activity
Booking required at: http://tfy.to/bibliotequesbarcelona/burladordesevilla
In collaboration with: Cátedra
Talk: Does culture stop with barbarism?
The idea of the arts as humankind’s salvation from barbarism, a theme addressed by numerous philosophers and thinkers, is the starting point of a conversation jointly chaired by the journalist Xavier Graset and Antonio Monegal, professor of literature at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, whose book Como el aire que respiramos was recently published (Acantilado), in which he reflects on the meaning of culture. He will be accompanied during the session by Judit Carrera, the Director of the CCCB and the person in charge of major debate projects there and in other facilities and institutions. The talk will conclude with an activity from the Poeta de guàrdia project, part of which will involve the reading out of texts on peace taken from great works of universal literature.
Date: Tuesday, 21 June at 6 pm
Venue: Biblioteca Horta - Can Mariner (Vent, 1)
Free activity (no booking required)
Further information: https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/biblioteques/en
