Lessons on Life and Literature: In Conversation with Ian McEwan & Ted Hodgkinson

In Lessons, Ian McEwan masterfully unravels a fascinating chronicle of our time. How do global events beyond our control shape our lives and our memories? What can we really learn from the traumas of the past? From the Cuban Missile Crisis to the fall of the Berlin Wall, from the COVID pandemic to climate change, one of the greatest British writers discusses his sociopolitical epic tour de force with Ted Hodgkinson, Head of Literature at Southbank Centre.
Wed 17 May - 6pm, French Institute, London
As part of Beyond Words Literature Festival 2023
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[@stuartwilliams-fw4vo]

An incomparable performance.

[@natalyalande]

“There is always a suspicion when you enter your mid 70s that you you have leaned nothing. Nothing at all.
And yet in some odd way you feel slightly more qualified to exist. “

[@Katherine.Angela]

Great quote here by Mr. McEwan re "closure": "One of the worst and most insidious new words in the English language is closure. There is not any closure for the great tragedies in life. There's simply absorption and learning to live with, as it were, your limp. You suffer a terrible loss, it becomes part of you."