香港伦理 Book Club

April 2024  |  My Weil: A Novel

Wednesday, Apr. 24, 2024
12 p.m. ET

The Zoom link will be emailed the day before the event.

Students, Faculty, Staff and Alumni are all welcome!

Please join the 香港伦理 Book Club for an online discussion of "My Weil: A Novel" by Lars Iyer. A scathingly funny look at a group of quirky graduate students majoring in Disaster Studies who are forced to reconsider their cynicism when they confront a new student who, remarkably, has the same name as the 20th Century Catholic mystic philosopher Simone Weil. (Taken directly from "My Weil: A Novel" by Lars Iyer.)


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ABOUT THE BOOK

My Weil follows a group of twenty-something PhD students of the new-fangled subject Disaster Studies at an inferior university in Manchester, England, the post-industrial city of so much great music and culture. They’re working class, by turns underconfident and grandiose (especially when they drink) and are reconciled to never finishing their dissertations or finding academic jobs.

Their immediate enemies are the drone-like Business Studies students all around them, as well as the assured and serene PhD students of the posh university up the road. And they’re working together on a film, through which they’re trying to make sense of their lives in Manchester and, in particular, to the Ees, a mysterious patch of countryside that appears to have supernatural qualities. (Taken directly from "My Weil: A Novel" by Lars Iyer.)

 

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