Literature
Wed 28 Mar 2007
2007
March 2007
Wednesday 28 March 2007
Wed 28 Mar, 4:30-5:30 pm. H-763, 1455 De Maisonneuve W. 7th Floor, Hall Building, Montreal, H3G 1M8. Olivia Ward, 514-848-2424 x8760. FREE. Concordia University Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies - [concordia][email][events]
Lecture by Dr. Sherry Simon. The poet, novelist and editorialist A.M. Klein was passionately attached to Montreal. Klein had great ambitions for his city, wanting to place it in the lineage of the great literary capitals of Jewish diasporic history. Strongly influenced by James Joyce, Klein wanted Montreal to be a "new Dublin". To read Klein is to see a Montreal haunted by other cities, other languages, other histories.