The little white attic

“But he resented those words bitterly. They rung in his ears; and he was proud of the sense of justice which made him go on in every kindne...

5/ I’ve finished reading Effi Briest . My view on Fontane’s writing, up till the last chapters, remained unchanged: his tendency to refrain...

3/ Anna Karenina , Madame Bovary and Effi Briest are often classed together as adultery novels. But that’s misleading.  Only Anna Karenina...

1/ France had Madame Bovary , Russia had Anna Karenina , Germany had Effi Briest .  However, if Flaubert dissects his Emma and contemptuous...

I have this habit: when reading bad marriage classic novels or adultery classic novels (the word “classic” is to indicate that most people ...

What am I reading, after A Room with a View ? Effi Briest .  I attempted to read Effi Briest in Norwegian in 2015, and before putting it d...

English translation (by William A. Cooper):  Mrs von Briest asks "Don't you love Geert?".  Effi responds "Why shouldn...

We all, in varying degrees, suffer from some illusion about ourselves. I was foolish enough to think myself capable of reading Effi Briest ...