Desire, Power, Fate: Tragedy is the Love that Lasts
February 20 @ 6:00 pm – March 13 @ 8:00 pm EST
A four-week class, offered online through DC’s Politics & Prose
Shirley Hazzard’s understated masterpiece, The Transit of Venus, has awed contemporary readers and writers in the 44 years since it was first published. In Hazzard’s hands, the story of two orphaned Australian sisters making their way in an inhospitable England rises to the scale of a Greek tragedy.
In her introduction to The Transit of Venus, Lauren Groff writes that the novel “circles ideas of fate, time, secrets, the nature of true goodness, the transitory nature of human love.” She might be describing her own Fates and Furies.
We’ll be exploring these two sweeping stories of love and exile, power and vulnerability, and (of course) fate.
AND we’ll hear from Groff herself, when she visits us to discuss Hazzard’s influence on her own work!
Class Information
The class will be held online over four Thursdays on February 20, 27, March 6, and 13 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET.
Registration is required. Price: $130 per person (10% off for Politics & Prose members)
