The little white attic

1/ Unlike Emma Bovary, Anna Karenina and Effi Briest, falling in love with another man, for Edna Pontellier, is linked with an awakening. 2...

After Effi Briest , I'm reading another work that also deals with adultery- The Awakening .  As Tom at Wuthering Expectations has just...

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 ...

I'm bored, so I'm just going to ask a bunch of questions about writers. These are for Fred and Tom and Tim and Mudpuddle and Himadri...

My obsession with Daniel Day-Lewis, I suppose, may sometimes be quite ridiculous, but look at how adorable he is in this interview: There...

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...

1/ This is a romance novel.  2/ A love story in which our heroine has to learn and grow, in order to understand herself, and understand lo...