The little white attic

1/ A brief summary: on the plot level, Kokoro by Natsume Soseki is about a young unnamed student and his friendship with an older man that...

1/ Let’s talk about metaphors and similes in Kokoro .  “Instinctively I dreamed about women as objects of desire, but these were merely va...

I recently had some conversations with 2 friends on Twitter about The Age of Innocence , particularly the ending, which reminded me of a blo...

1/ After a short break (Jane Austen’s letters, edited by Deirdre Le Faye), I’m now reading another Japanese novel: Kokoro , the most acclaim...

Lời tựa:  Gần đây tôi có viết 2 bài cho báo Trẻ về vấn đề trans nhưng không được đăng, có lẽ không phù hợp với báo Trẻ. Đây là một vấn đề tư...

Readers may find it tempting to compare The Diary of Lady Murasaki and The Pillow Book —after all, the authors are the 2 most celebrated fem...

In the introduction of The Pillow Book , Meredith McKinney quotes Murasaki Shikibu’s lines about her in her diary:  “Sei Shonagon… was d...