February 2004
Shine On
If you previously considered the novel
Madame Bovary by French author Gustave Flaubert to be a hopelessly old-fashioned tale of romantic disappointment, then Cathleen Shine’s new novel
She is Me:
A Novel, an “adaptation” of this classic 19th-century tale, is likely to change your opinion. When Elizabeth, an academic living in New York, is given the job of turning Emma Bovary’s story into a film script, she finds herself faced with a seemingly endless sequence of insurmountable tragic-comic events. Curious? Then you will be pleased to know that Shine will be reading excerpts from her novel (there will be a parallel reading of the German translation) at the Literaturhaus on Monday, February 9, at
8 pm. Tickets cost € 7. For more information visit
www.literaturhaus-muenchen.de.
