The little white attic

Spring Snow I think is a book that may appeal to different kinds of readers. If you’re interested in style, Mishima is a great stylist and ...

I haven’t written about the characters in Spring Snow , not having much to say so far. But I’m very much enjoying Mishima’s style (translate...

I can’t be the only person thinking of Proust whilst reading Spring Snow .  ““I can’t tell you why,” she answered, deftly dropping ink into ...

From February 2022 to January 2023  In bold: films/ plays that I think are good  1/ The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)  2/ Louis Theroux's Fo...

How do you write about a book such as Everything Flows ?  It is about a man named Ivan Grigoryevich, who after Stalin’s death is released af...

1/ Viktor, who isn’t prominent in Part 1, becomes the main character in Parts 2 and 3. In some ways he’s a type, so that we know what it fee...

1/ Krymov, Yevgenia’s former husband, the fanatical communist who has no sympathy for “enemies of the people”, is now arrested and put in th...

This is without doubt the best Tolstoy adaptation I have seen so far. I know some people now would complain that the series is too stagey an...

1/ In the previous blog post, I had some complaint about Vasily Grossman’s depiction of German/ Nazi characters. As anyone who reads this bl...

1/ There’s been something before, but in this part, Vasily Grossman writes more about the environment of deep distrust and paranoia (is this...