Preliminary Schedule for 2016

[Jim]

This is the Preliminary Schedule for Brain Pain 2016


Additional dates will be added pending the results of the Pynchon, Against The Day, poll.


January 4 – 31, 2016
The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf – 1915 - Rachel Vinrace

February 1 - 28
Lysistrata – Aristophanes – 411 BC – Lysistrata, Athenian woman

The Trojan Women (The Women of Troy) – Euripides – 415 BC – Hecabe, widow of King Priam; Cassandra, Andromache, and Helen

Medea – Euripides – 431 BC – Medea, wife of Jason

Antigone – Sophocles – 441 BC – Antigone, daughter of Oedipus


February 29 – March 13
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories– Angela Carter – 1979

March 14 – April 10
Emma – Jane Austen – 1815 – Emma Woodhouse

April 11 – May 8
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë – 1847 – Jane Eyre

May 9 – May 22
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne – 1850 – Hester Prynne

May 23 – June 12
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert – 1856 – Emma Bovary



Mildred Pierce – James M. Cain – 1941 – Mildred Pierce

Beauty and Sadness – Yasunari Kawabata – 1961 – Otoko Ueno, artist, and Keiko, her protgé and lover

The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath – 1963 – Esther Greenwood

The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison – 1970 - Pecola Breedlove

The Stain – Rikki Ducornet – 1984 - Charlotte

The Broom of the System – David Foster Wallace – 1987 - Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman

Eva Luna – Isabel Allende – 1987 – Eva Luna

My Phantom Husband – Marie Darrieussecq – 1996

Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood – 1988 - Elaine Risley, artist

The Body Artist – Don DeLillo – 2001 – Lauren Hartke, artist

The Blazing World – Siri Hustvedt – 2014 - Harriet Burden, artist


Also to be scheduled:

Against the Day - Thomas Pynchon

The Rainbow Stories - William T. Vollmann