Goethe Pop Up Book Klub: Jason Lutes' BERLIN

1424 11th Avenue,Seattle WA 98122

21 October, 2021

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Grab a drink & join Goethe Pop Up Seattle at our October book club meeting! We will discuss Jason Lutes' comic "Berlin". The Goethe Pop Up Book Klub is back at the Cloud Room! Grab a drink at the bar and join us for our first in-person book discussion since 2020. Let's keep reading and sharing experiences with the material in person! The book club is free and open to everyone interested, but participants must purchase the individual texts themselves and are expected to have read the title to be discussed prior to the meeting. Feel free to read this month’s selection in English or German. The discussion will be in English. About the October selection: Berlin By Jason Lutes 580 pp During the past two decades, Jason Lutes has quietly created one of the masterworks of the graphic novel golden age. Berlin is one of the high-water marks of the medium: rich in its well-researched historical detail, compassionate in its character studies, and as timely as ever in its depiction of a society slowly awakening to the stranglehold of fascism. Berlin is an intricate look at the fall of the Weimar Republic through the eyes of its citizens―Marthe Müller, a young woman escaping the memory of a brother killed in World War I, Kurt Severing, an idealistic journalist losing faith in the printed word as fascism and extremism take hold; the Brauns, a family torn apart by poverty and politics. Lutes weaves these characters’ lives into the larger fabric of a city slowly ripping apart. The city itself is the central protagonist in this historical fiction. Lavish salons, crumbling sidewalks, dusty attics, and train stations: all these places come alive in Lutes’ masterful hand. Weimar Berlin was the world’s metropolis, where intellectualism, creativity, and sensuous liberal values thrived, and Lutes maps its tragic, inevitable decline. Questions? Send an email to [email protected]