The little white attic

Molière is a delight after the gory plays by Seneca! (Funnily enough, last time I read Molière was after the dark and repulsive revenge play...

I read the verse translation by Philip Wayne.  1/ The first interesting thing to observe is that in Goethe’s play, Faust doesn’t appear firs...

I don’t have a lot to say about The Sorrows of Young Werther , my first encounter with Goethe. I’m a Jane Austen girl; Werther—what can I s...

In Tolstoy and the Novel , John Bayley writes: “... Indeed we might make a distinction, in the context of Russian and Western literature, ...