British Library: life stories
The British Library at St. Pancras is running a series of lectures over the next six weeks called Life Stories by Pierre Pachet, Alasdair Macintyre, Sandi Toksvig, Juliet Mitchell and Gabriel Josipovici. The final one interests me in particular: it asks “Biographies are getting bigger and bigger, but are they getting better? Are we in danger of losing the old biographical faith that lives have a meaningful shape of their own rather than being mere successions of events? And can the act of writing still be a gesture of mourning?“.
Unfortunately, it’s on the same evening as England plays Croatia in the group stages of Euro2004. There’ll be more than gestures of mourning if we lose that one.
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