Friends and Former Students of the University of Valencia begins next 1 October Reading Club with the analysis of the novel 'Purge' by Sofi Oksanen Finnish writer. The Club will meet the first Tuesday of each month at 18 am in the Municipal Library 'Exhibition Palace', whose director, Cristina Delgado Moyano, coordinate the group.
Participation in the Reading Club of Friends and Former Students of the University of Valencia is free and exclusively for members of the group of the University of Valencia. You just have to send an email to amics@uv.es. The following meetings are scheduled to take place 5 November and 3 December.
Participants in the first Reading Club can now pick up a copy of the book on which will be discussed on 1 October, 'Purge', in the library of the Exhibition Palace, located in Galicia Street 1, Valencia, next to the headquarters of the Friends and Former Students of the University of Valencia
'Purge': Soviet footprint in Estonia
'Purge', published in Spain by Salamandra was first a play and then a novel with which its author, Sofi Oksanen, daughter of Estonian and Finnish, won in his two homelands spectacular sales. Replicated success in France, aspire to be worldwide, with the support of a good number of literary prizes.
Where there isn't likely a good host is in Russia, since the work exudes contempt for the powerful neighbor that has conditioned the recent history of Estonia, one of the three Baltic republics that broke with Moscow at the first signs of decomposition of the USSR.
Nationalist sentiment is suppressed since Estonia was by force integrated into the Soviet Union after the Hitler-Stalin pact and, especially, from 1944, after the expulsion of the Nazi occupiers. Tens of thousands of ethnic Estonians 'enemies of the people' met deportation and GULAG, and hundreds of thousands of Russians walked the opposite way and dramatically altered the demographic composition. Even today, after 20 years of independence, Estonia is in 25% of Russians, a minority away from the power and discriminated
About the author
Sofi Oksanen (Finland, 1977) studied literature at the universities of Jyväskylä and Helsinki and later drama at the Theatre Academy in Helsinki.
Sofi became well known for her first novel 'Stalinin lehmät' ('Stalin's Cows') (2003), which deals with eating disorders and women Estonian immigrants in Finland. Two years later, he published 'Baby Jane' (2005), a novel about anxiety disorders and violence in lesbian couples. His first play premiered at the Finnish National Theatre in 2007, 'Puhdistus' ('purge'), which was awarded the Nordic Council Literature.
In 2010 publishes 'Purge' novel awarded the Femina foreign literature, Mika Waltari, the Runeberg and European Award for Best Novel of the Year. 'Purge' tells the story of Estonia during a war for its independence through two women, young Zara, who runs away from a women trafficker, and the old Aliide Truu, who lives badly at home in a remote rural area, during the year 1992.
Day: 1 October.
Time: 18 hours.
Location: Municipal Library 'Exhibition Palace'. Calle Galicia 1, Valencia.
Book: 'Purge'.
Original title: 'Puhdistus'.
Author: Sofi Oksanen (Finland, 1977).
Publisher: Salamandra.
Pages: 384.
Last update: 10 de september de 2013 17:41.
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