The little white attic

Himadri, aka Argumentative old git, an Indian growing up in Britain. In his 50s. A classic literature lover, especially Russian literature, ...

Từ bài "Vấn đề ngôn ngữ trong văn chương lưu vong" của Hoàng Ngọc- Tuấn ( http://www.tienve.org/home/viet/viewVietJournals.do?acti...

1/ Nabokov says "3 forces make and mold a human being: heredity, environment, and the unknown agent X. Of these the 2nd, environment, i...

Reading "Lectures on Literature" by Vladimir Nabokov. 1/ "Mansfield Park" is not "a violently vivid masterpiece...

1st of all, the question is: What is feminism? This 1 word means different things to different people.  I don't know if I can be called ...

"All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." * (1st sentence of "Anna Karenina"...

From August 2013 to January 2014 1/ Le trou (The hole- France- 1960) 2/ A few good men (1992)- again 3/ The firm (1993) 4/ Rope (1948) ...