LitBüro. Paula McLane's “Paris Wife”

Remember Woody Allen’s romantic film about a young writer and hopeless romance who is confident that he should have lived in the 1920s? When the main character arrives in Paris with his lover for a vacation and falls into the past, where he meets with Hemingway, Picasso, the spouses Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein. Do you remember?              LitBüro offers you a deeper immersion in the “Roaring Twenties” period and a close acquaintance with the future Nobel Prize in Literature, novice writer - Ernest Hemingway. On February 12th, at Terminal 42, we’ll be talking about the New York Times bestselling novel, Paula McLane’s novel “Parisian Wife,” which has won the hearts of millions of readers.              On the pages of the novel we will meet with another Ernest Hemingway - the way his first wife - Hadley Richardson sees him. Like the heroes of the novel, we will be transported to the era of jazz, surrounded by the American bohemians of the “lost generation” led by Gertrude Stein and the Fitzgerald spouses, and we will live this significant period with them. We will love, dance swing and lindy hop, drink, stroll through the streets of Paris, enjoy Montmartre, fight for our dreams, suffer, read and discuss the novel, in a word - do everything possible to feel alive.              Guests of the evening:Iryna Vikyrchak is a translator of the novel “The Parisian Wife” (in Ukrainian), writer, poet, cultural manager and curator of Ukrainian events abroad, head of the Bureau of the EU's Creative Europe program. Irina is a representative of the Nobel Prize in Literature Olga Tokarchuk and will come to Odessa straight from Olga’s office to talk to us about the difficulties of translation, the role of creative parties, her acquaintance with Hemingway and Hadley, the war and love, the role of women in the roaring and the modern 20s, about the real and the fictional in the novel, and also tells about the “backstage” of working days of Nobel laureates.              Veronika Kukota is a practicing stylist, image designer, author of the “Personal Style Reconstruction” methodology and image and style training programs. Together with Veronika we’ll talk about what the fashion of the 20s gave us: the proportional dependence of changes in the female silhouette and the role of women in society, farewell to the Victorian era and the advent of the era of gangsters, flappers, felt hats, bright makeup, as well as , why they are met by clothes and they determine your social status.              Moderators:              Anna Kostenko, writer, candidate of philological sciences.              Evgenia Jurist, Master of Philology, translator.The LitBüro project regularly holds a series of readings and discussions about contemporary and classical world literature. We suggest to plunge into the world of interpretations, allusions, metaphors and symbols. Reread not only well-known classical works, but also modern literary novelties, world best-sellers. LitBüro is an opportunity to satisfy intellectual hunger and try a new lecture format for yourself, where you cease to be a passive listener and become involved in the discussion process.              Early ticket (until 5.02) - 150 UAH.       Standard ticket (5.02 - 11.02) - 200 UAH.       On the day of the event - 250 UAH.              LitBüro believes: “There is no misinterpretation, there are unread books!” Rather, start reading the “Parisian team” translated by Irina Vikirchak and see you in the 20s!