Peirene Autumn Salon 2013
Event on 2013-09-21 19:30:00
Evenings of literature, conversation, dinner and wine.
21th September: With Polish writer and philosopher Agata Bielik-Robson, British writer Lisa Appignanesi and Ben Helfgott.
Agata Bielik-Robson is an emminent Polish philosopher. She has published books in Polish, English and German on philosophical aspects of psychoanalysis, romantic subjectivity, and the philosophy of religion (especially Judaism and its crossings with modern philosophical thought).Lisa Appignanesi was born in Poland and is a British writer, novelist, and campaigner for free expression. She is a former President of English PEN and Chair of the Trustees of the Freud Museum London. Her new novel Paris Requiem will come out in August and a new edition of her parent's own Holocaust story, Losing the Dead, will be published by Virago in the autumn.Ben Helfgott is chairman of the ‘45 Aid Society for Holocaust Survivors’ and president of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. He survived Buchenwald and Theresienstadt and went on to become the only known survivor of Nazi concentration camps to compete in two Olympic games, captaining Britain's Olympic weightlifting team at Melbourne in 1956 and Rome in 1960, and winning bronze at the Commonwealth Games in Cardiff in 1958.
Time: 7.30pm
The evening starts with drinks. The reading commences at 8.15pm, followed by dinner and wine. Whisky and coffee will be served at 11pm.
"The salons have fast become literary London’s most enjoyable Europhile event." The Economist
"A combination of fringe theatre, psychiatrist's couch, conversazione society and flirtation parlour, the Peirene salon is unlike any other literary gathering. It was intellectually stimulating but full of laughter, argumentative but friendly, seriously focussed on the Novel but without forgetting the Wine. And Meike Ziervogel — gracious, beautiful and just slightly wicked — is the best salonniere since Madame Geoffrin in 18th century Paris." John Walsh, The Independent
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