Insights into Wuthering Heights: £50; Emily Brontë's novel: priceless

V.S. Naipaul's controversial statements continue generating articles, suchas this one from The Hindu:

Software engineer Apala Mitra points out that authors like George Eliot, Charlotte and Emily Brontë wrote under a pen name and nobody could make the distinction whether the writer was male or female. (Sohini Chakravorty)

Coincidentally, Naipaul is also mentioned in The Jamaica Gleaner for other reasons:

Assessing the impact of West Indian literature in the past, Tiffin started at the crest with Nobel Laureates Derek Walcott and the "caustic and sceptical" V.S. Naipaul, saying that in the latter's A House for Mr Biswas "I read about my place for the first time". Using 'West Indian' to apply to the English-speaking Caribbean and noting that "influence is, of course, a very difficult thing to measure", Tiffin moved on to Jean Rhys and Edward 'Kamau' Brathwaite. The impact of the former's Wide Sargasso Sea is measured in part by the Penguin sales figures at one point showing that it outsold any single Shakespeare title, though not the collection. (Mel Cooke)

Terry Eagleton writes in the Guardian about AC Grayling's forthcoming New College of the Humanities which will charge students £18,000 a year in tuition fees.

If education is to be treated as a commodity, then we should stop pussyfooting around. I already ask my students at the start of a session whether they can afford my £50 insights into Wuthering Heights, or whether they will settle for a few mediocre ideas at £10 a piece.

Writer and playwright Helen Smith comments on her blog on Samantha Ellis's column on role models in literature.

The Brontë Sisters writes about Villette. Lovely Solitude posts about Jane Eyre and Shoujo Café reviews the 1973 BBC miniseries.

EDIT: Finally, an alert from Paris, the Cinémathèque Française plays a homage to Marie-France Pisier:

La Cinémathèque française organise une soirée en hommage à Marie-France Pisier récemment disparue : Prises de parole et projection d'Antoine et Colette de François Truffaut (sketch dans l'Amour à 20 ans) suivie des Soeurs Brontë d'André Téchiné. Ses nombreux amis et admirateurs pourront se retrouver à 20h pour rendre hommage à l'une des actrices les plus attachantes du cinéma français.

Antoine et Colette
de François Truffaut
France – 1962 – 32’ – 35mm
Avec : Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Patrick Auffray, Rosy Varte
Sketch du film « L’amour à 20 ans ».
Antoine rencontre Colette aux jeunesses musicales. Il travaille chez un disquaire, elle étudie et ne le prend pas au sérieux.

suivi de

Les Sœurs Brontë
d’André Téchiné
France – 1979 – 115’ – 35mm
Avec Marie-France Pisier, Isabelle Huppert, Isabelle Adjani, Pascal Grégory.
1854. Charlotte Brontë se souvient de sa vie avec son père, un pasteur, ses soeurs Emily et Anne, et surtout avec son frère Barnwell, un peintre qui mourut dans la déchéance et l'alcoolisme.

Categories: Wide Sargasso Sea, Wuthering Heights