Reading Workshops

Emma Domínguez, Maricel Oró, and Verónica Vizcaíno organized a reading group at the Public Library of Lleida titled “Between Generations.” The reading group consisted of four sessions. In the first two sessions, the novels The Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante and White Teeth by Zadie Smith, Tàndem by Maria Barbal, and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel by Deborah Moggach were discussed. The group had 18 participants ranging in age from twenty to eighty years old. Each session lasted an hour and a half, during which the selected novels were discussed from the perspective of intergenerational relationships between family members, neighbors, acquaintances, etc., as well as the way each author understands the concept of aging and intergenerationality according to her work and experience. Topics also included relationships between different generations in the context of immigration, the expectations of each generation depending on the time and place in which the characters grew up and developed, and issues related to aging, the passage of time, old age, caregiving, and death.

On this occasion, Emma Domínguez, Maricel Oró, and Verónica Vizcaíno organized the second edition of the reading group “Between Generations 2” at the Public Library of Lleida. The reading group consisted of four sessions in which four novels by authors of different backgrounds were discussed and analyzed. In the first session, the novel The Dark Daughter by the Italian author Elena Ferrante was discussed. Next, Love, Again by British author Doris Lessing was analyzed. The last two sessions focused on works by Catalan authors: Carrer Galera, 5 by Antonieta Jarne and País Íntim by Maria Barbal. As in the previous edition, the group consisted of 18 participants ranging in age from thirty to seventy. Topics such as love in the second half of life, the passage of time, relationships between parents and children, and the weight of historical events on different generations were present in the discussions.