The little white attic

I know, I wrote that the last blog post was my response once and for all to the mantra “Plays are meant to be seen, not read.” But I want to...

Samuel Richardson’s Pamela is foundational for the epistolary form. Not the first epistolary novel ever written, but the one to start the c...

Under my previous blog post about Dangerous Liaisons  (or  Les Liaisons dangereuses ) , Michael wrote:  “I feel odd commenting because I’ve...

1/ It was clearly a mistake to neglect French literature for so long.  Up till now, the writer I’ve read who seems to have the best understa...

1/ In some blog post about Don Quixote , I have noted that Shakespeare and Cervantes are both fascinated by disguise, pretence, and manipula...

As I’m enjoying  Les Liaisons dangereuses or  Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (translated by Helen Constantine), I’ve bee...