The little white attic

1/ The other day I found this short article comparing Flaubert to Tolstoy: "The spectrum of novelistic empathy: at one end, Tolstoy, w...

Fanny Price is an outsider, an outsider everywhere- the whole time at Mansfield park, constantly reminded of her inferior status, then bac...

1/ In August I made this silly diagram: (larger size: http://s9.postimg.org/pc1ucx1gf/Austen_and_Brontes_a_diagram.png ) to demonstrate h...

Let's look again at the ending. On 4/12, I wrote "Rochester may not be a cruel man by nature, but he isn't nice. Grumpy, coa...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Salinger#Writing_in_the_1950s_and_move_to_Cornish J. D. Salinger: "A writer, when he's asked...