Just looking to the non-English press online (as much as our limited language skills allow us) we have found some Brontë references in the last weeks.
We found in
Le Monde a review of Le Vampire, enquête autour d'un mythe, written by Estelle Val de Gomis (éd. Cheminement). According to the review
the book analyzes the various incarnations, from Lord Ruthven to Dracula, while widening its search with the vampiric topics which it detects at Oscar Wilde, Emily Brontë and Ann Radcliffe.Hmmm, Emily the undead. That is something new.
In
Le Point we found this article devoted to some recent translations of Elizabeth Gaskell's novels.
The Spanish press seems more concerned about the fashion business and Brontëana. Some weeks ago we published some news related with this sudden Brontë fascination of fashion designers. Now, the recent Pasarela Cibeles in Madrid seems also to have generated the same kind of news: The
Diario de Córdoba covers Juana Martín's fashion show:
In her proposals for autumn -- winter 2006 -- 2007, the Cordovan designer has reinvented the evolution of fashion in 19th-century England. (...) The orange and fuchsia also had a special protagonism in a show that at many moments brought to mind Emily Brontë's novel. ABC also insists on this parallelism:
A collection that looks at the English aristocracy of the 19th Century. Although Wuthering Height's Catherine (Heathcliff would have died) is mentioned, their women are more like the sophisticated Bingley sisters in "Pride and Prejudice". Finally
El Mundo prefers to notice the Lomba & Devota collection:
If the Brontë sisters reappeared in this century, they would surely fall in love with the Lomba & Devota collection. We finish our trip in Germany where we found
this article published in Das Junge Welt in which Mozart's infancy is compared to the one of the Brontë sisters. Their father's influence and the shared world of common fantasies that was the seed of their subsequent literature.
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