The little white attic

I wonder if any reader never gets tired, frustrated, or annoyed reading Proust. There must be an ideal reader out there, savouring every pag...

It’s fascinating to see how Proust describes facial expressions: “… M. de Norpois, while anything was being expounded to him, would preserve...

The narrator’s first meeting with his childhood hero and favourite writer Bergotte must be one of the most interesting sequences in Within a...

I love the metaphors in Proust. Look at this passage in Within a Budding Grove , when the narrator writes about Professor Cottard:  “… we mu...

It’s reductive perhaps, but in a moment of idleness, I was thinking that all prose writers could be roughly categorised as sane or mad.  Jan...

 1/ Most of Shakespeare’s plays open with some supporting or background characters, Richard III begins with the main character’s soliloquy: ...

1/ In my previous blog post, I quoted Henry IV, Part 2 :  “KING […] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown...” Contrast that with Duke of Y...

1/ Compared to Part 1 , Part 2 does sound a lot more like Shakespeare. For example, look at the metaphor used by the Duke of York when he b...

After the 2016 version starring Don Warrington, this is the second King Lear I’ve seen. Or third, if you count the Russian film directed by ...