The little white attic

For a change, I'm writing about drinks. Actually, I'm not even writing about drinks. Here is a list.  (By the word fancy , which I ...

Except for a bit of Kate Chopin once in a while, I haven't read much literature recently. I've been watching films, especially docum...

From February 2016 to March 2017   In bold: films I consider good  1/ Trumbo (2015) 2/ Never Been Kissed (1999)- again 3/ Play It Again...

My fb post last night:  That sums everything up. 

Some directors create stunning-looking films that say nothing. Some directors can say nothing by image, using voice-over or a character'...

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...