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📢ANNOUNCEMENT KLAXON
Our next BookTalk will be on Simone deBeauvoir's classic, Prix Goncourt-winning novel THE MANDARINS, which celebrates its 70th birthday this year
Fittingly enough, we're doing this one in a cafe. See you at Little Man Coffee on 4 June
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Our @BBCRadio4 production of Samantha Harvey’s @TheBookerPrizes winning novel #Orbital is being repeated 1.45pm Mon-Fri & available as a box set @BBCSounds Read by Anneika Rose, abridged by Sara Davies & produced by @MaryWL1 & @MairBosworth #fiction #books bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001v3j…
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Summer is here! We got our @HogFriendly Gold Award, but the HEBHOGS team never rests 😊!
Pop in on Monday, 19 Aug, 10am-3pm in the Hadyn Ellis Building foyer for another cake & craft sale. All proceedings will be used to help 🦔 on campus & wider city. Raffle tickets available.
ALT Summer is here! We got our @hogfriendly Gold Award, but the HEBHOGS team never rests 😊! Pop in on Monday 19 August from 10am-3pm in the Hadyn Ellis Building foyer, for another cake and craft sale. All proceedings will be used to help hedgehogs on campus and in the wider city. You can also purchase raffle tickets to be in with a chance of winning some amazing prizes. Get in touch with Bob to find out more about this: [email protected].
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I’m on @BBCRadio4 talking a little bit about Mary Shelley, collaboration, influence, & the power of Frankenstein as a novel for ‘Opening Lines’. Thank you to producer Kate McAll, it was such a delight to work with you! bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00213d…
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Thanks to everyone who came along to @littlemancoffee for our BookTalk on Simone de Beauvoir this week, and special thanks also to our brilliant speakers Juliana De Albuquerque, Mary Edwards, John Gillespie and Dianna Taylor
We'll be back soon with news of our next sessions!
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Very much looking forward to an existential BookTalk this evening! @CardiffBookTalk @cardiffphilos #Beauvoir #TheMandarins
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Today's blog: in advance of next week's BookTalk on Simone de Beauvoir's novel The Mandarins we're getting to grips with existentialist thought.
In an interview from 1959, Beauvoir discusses her athiesm and her belief in examining the individual conscience.
TOMORROW
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We're meeting to discuss Simone de Beauvoir's novel The Mandarins next Tuesday 4 June @littlemancoffee
Book your free place and find out more on our blog: cardiffbooktalk.wordpress.co…
Existentialism and God over on the blog this week:
'...we consider good all that serves the interests, happiness, development of Man. And evil is all that goes against it. This is absolutely the fundamental basis of what we may call our ethics, or even morals.’
We're meeting to discuss Simone de Beauvoir's novel The Mandarins next Tuesday 4 June @littlemancoffee
Book your free place and find out more on our blog: cardiffbooktalk.wordpress.co…
Today's blog: in advance of next week's BookTalk on Simone de Beauvoir's novel The Mandarins we're getting to grips with existentialist thought.
In an interview from 1959, Beauvoir discusses her athiesm and her belief in examining the individual conscience.
You can find a link to the full interview with Simone de Beauvoir via our blog:
cardiffbooktalk.wordpress.co…
We're meeting at 7pm on 4 June at @littlemancoffee to discuss Simone de Beauvoir's The Mandarins.
Book your free place here: ticketsource.co.uk/cardiff-b…
BookTalk alumni and all round legend @RachelCDawson is shortlisted for the Betty Trask award this year!
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Two weeks to go until our BookTalk on Simone de Beauvoir's Prix Goncourt winning novel The Mandarins.
Fittingly enough, we meet dans le cafe @littlemancoffee
Book your free place for our BookTalk on Simone de Beauvoir's The Mandarins, a novel of politics, love and friendship set in the aftermath of the war
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Less than one month to go until this public event celebrating the 70th anniversary of Simone de Beauvoir's novel, Les mandarins, organised by @CardiffBookTalk in collaboration with the UK Sartre Society! See the poster 👇 for how to register
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Toril Moi on The Mandarins: Acknowledging the Other – Cardiff BookTalk - here’s the link to full text of my essay. cardiffbooktalk.wordpress.co…
