Introduction to good literature

Lots of Brontëites, Brontë influences and Brontë readers on the net today.

AJC.com has an article aboout young author Michelle Izmaylov, whose first book is called Dream Saver. It looks like she's a fan of Emily Brontë.

Michelle tries to write at least half an hour daily and reads several books a week. Her favorite writers are Nora Roberts, J.K. Rowling, Alexandre Dumas and Emily Brontë. (Ralph Ellis)

Cybnut has recently watched Dil Diya Dard Liya (1966), an Indian adaptation of Wuthering Heights.

Dil Diya Dard Liya draws out all of its plot conflicts from Miss Bronte's novel. Unfortunately, it also caters to the era of Indian cinema where the heroine was to be set on a pedestal and worshipped. She could do no 'wrong'. So instead of the tempestuous Catherine, we have the chaste, submissive Rupa (an always perfectly turned out Waheeda Rehman) romancing a poor, fettered Shankar(Dilip Kumar, he's done better). The Heathcliff wannabe is the long lost heir to some long lost kingdom, which effectively solves the How-to-make-the-hero-wealthier-than-the-heroine issue in a jiffy. Pran takes on the uncelebrated role of Hindley and personally, I think he outshines Dilip Kumar. He is a nasty, belligerent, obdurate man who, like the leads meets his nemesis in love.
And then there is the supporting cast of Shyama and Rehman, just fillers for the position of Isabelle and Edgar.
The one redeeming quality of this novella is a must buy soundtrack with gems like "Dil harnewale aur bhi hai", "Koi saagar" and of course the title song.....
The tragic tale was perceptibly sweetened for Indian tastes, Shankar and Rupa get a happily ever after in their lifetime unlike the novel wherein both the leads' love endures beyond death.

In the meantime, Bibliofied has just read Wuthering Heights and it turns out that - like many people - he expected something more akin to Jane Eyre. Fortunately for his taste, he likes Wuthering Heights best and talks about it in connection with a poem by Anne Carson.

I recently finished reading Wuthering Heights, for the first time. A sometimes fan of Anne Carson, I picked up the novel because she has spoken so highly of it. Wow! I thought it might be something like Jane Eyre, with sluggish characters and lack of apparent passion. I was pleased with the absolutely depraved, mind-bending characters that kill and screw each other across the pages toward the destruction of almost everyone. Feeling a bit overwhelmed by the story and unable to yet comment on it, I also picked up Carson's Glass, Irony and God in which she alludes to Wuthering Heights in a longpoem within the book called "The Glass Essay." (Michael G)

Now for some Jane Eyre. Waiting for the World to Change isn't thrilled about classics, yet she's read Jane Eyre in a couple of days and considers it

a great introduction to good literature.

Gautami Tripathy over at My Own Little Reading Room finds echoes of Jane Eyre in Louisa Elliott by Ann Victoria Roberts.

Soon after, he sets her up in an apartment in York with him--to the condemnation of Louisa's cousin, Edward. Robert cannot marry Louisa as he already has a wife who is a lunatic and is locked up in the Irish family mansion (Reflection of Jane Eyre?). Robert takes her back to Dublin with him, where he shows her off in society—despite guilt and censure and guilt taking a toll on Louisa's soul. She bears him three children, and suffers his philandering along with his violent brand of love before she returns to York to attend to her dying mother and finally to marry the gentle Edward.

And finally Cultura Libre has a post - in Spanish - on Sombras en el corazón by Maria José Rosete, a book influenced by Jane Eyre, as we have mentioned in the past.

Categories: Books, Brontëites, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Wuthering Heights