With... Adam Sargant
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It's our last episode of series 1!!! Expect ghost, ghouls and lots of
laughs as we round off the series with Adam Sargant, AKA Haunted Haworth.
We'll be...
3 weeks ago
Amy says reading has always inspired her to write, and cites the Bronte Sisters, Virginia Woolf, Carson McCullers, Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy, and, surprisingly, Stephen King (“His influence is probably still visible in my writing, even though I don't write horror.”) as having most influenced the development of her particular style. (Zack Kopp)And last but not least, the bulk of the Brontëites: those anonymous readers that we sometimes find in real life, on blogs, etc. The Los Angeles Times blog Jacket Copy writes about the "What Are You Reading" graffiti wall at the recent Festival of Books, were people were welcome to add their particular choice. The article highlights just a few of the many, many writings (see the photos here).
And "Pastoralia," George Saunders; "Villette," Charlotte Bronte; "Maps and Legends," Michael Chabon; "Consider the Lobster," "The Lovely Bones," "The Diary of Anne Frank," "Blood Meridian," The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," "Gone With the Wind," "Less Than Zero," Ann Coulter and "The Audacity of Hope."Hard to know for sure, but we have a feeling that Villette wasn't the only Brontë read on the wall. And what a great inititiave at any rate!
Murder, madness, unbridled passion — It's the stuff of romance novels. But Robert Goolrick's new book A Reliable Wife is more complex than that. Sure, Goolrick makes good use of some familiar literary types: the lonely, wealthy man with dark secrets in his past, the expected arrival of a prim, proper woman who will change his life and share his mansion in the middle of nowhere.An improbable book to be mentioned on BrontëBlog is Direct Red: A Surgeon's Story by Gabriel Weston. However, The Globe and Mail makes a connection for us:
But the mail-order bride who steps off the train as the book begins is no Jane Eyre. She is a beauty and a liar with her own dark secrets and her own sinister plans. In his first novel, Goolrick, who until now has been best known for his memoir The End of the World As We Know It has spun a tale that will keep many a reader turning the pages late at night to find out what happens next.
[Describing the author, Gabriel Weston] She has the delicate complexion and busy blue eyes of a moor-side Brontë heroine and the slender, sinewy build of the caffeinated urban careerist. (Olivia Stren)PopMatters quotes a charming fragment from Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.
There’s a scene in Truman Capote’s classic, Breakfast at Tiffany’s that sums up how I feel about the movie adaptation of the book. The narrator of the story, “Fred”, is having an argument with lead character, Holly Golightly about literature because he thinks she can’t appreciate it. He’s asks her to give him an example of a literary work that means something to her. When her answer turns out to be Wuthering Heights, he is outraged.The National describes French actress Isabelle Huppert as follows:“But that’s unreasonable,” he says. “You’re talking about a work of genius.”(Jennifer Makowsky)
“It was, wasn’t it? My wild sweet Cathy. God, I cried buckets. I saw it ten times,” she says.
“Oh,” Fred says. “The movie.”
Fittingly, when the director André Téchiné made The Brontë Sisters in 1979, Huppert played Anne, the least celebrated of the novelist siblings, but in hindsight perhaps the most talented. Whereas her sisters specialised in romanticism, Anne Brontë wrote with a sharp and ironic vigour that sidestepped fantasy. The same could be said of Huppert, who has always offered a vision of the real, while most French actresses are the epitome of glamour. (Kaleem Aftab)It might be true that Anne's style is more down-to-earth than her sisters', but that doesn't automatically turn them into empty-headed romantics, which is what that sounds like.
La Literatura en el Cine: Cumbres BorrascosasCategories: Books, Brontëites, Jane Eyre, Poetry, References, Weirdo, Wuthering Heights
Fecha: el 28/04/2009
Horas: 7 pm.
Lugar: ICPNA Lima Centro ( Jr. Cusco 446 )
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