The little white attic

I have seen 7 screen adaptations of Anna Karenina . That probably tells you I’m a bit mad. But as a lover of literature and cinema, I’m also...

I don’t know what possessed me, but yesterday I saw two different adaptations of Wuthering Heights : Arashi ga oka (1988) from Japan, and t...

Anyone who loves Wuthering Heights has long recognised the difficulty, if not the impossibility, of adapting it (properly) for the screen. ...

As my previous blog post was about race and “diverse casting” in period dramas, let’s talk about Heathcliff: what is his race/ ethnicity? Th...

One of the funny things Emily Bronte does in Wuthering Heights is that, instead of writing from the third-person point of view, she creates...

One common complaint about Wuthering Heights , which I have always found strange, is that the characters are all detestable. True, but it do...

1/ One trouble with screen adaptations is that you form a mental image of a character because of various actors, only to return to the book ...

Yesterday I watched two Czechoslovakian films: Alice and When the Cat Comes (both of which I recommend). As I was watching Alice , Jan Šva...

It is no surprise that the country I know the best in literature is Britain. The 19th century especially: from Jane Austen, Charles Dickens,...

- 10 favourite novels (updated):  The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu  Anna Karenina by Lev Tolstoy War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy M...

Knulp Tanner and I are having a read-along of The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, Japan’s greatest classic novel, from the 11th century...

1/ As I said earlier, I intended to read more women this year.     My favourite writers who are female have been, for a few years, Jane Aus...

I’m going to start by saying that, because of my upbringing, I have a rather strong dislike of people, especially women, who make stupid dec...