Sotheby’s said recently that it would offer a “lost library” that includes a cache of Brontë material. “It’s just absolutely gobsmacking,” one Brontë biographer told me.Highlights are on view in New York through June 9. See some of the rarities.The star of the auction is an 1844 handwritten manuscript of Emily Brontë’s poems, with pencil edits by Charlotte. It carries an estimate of $1.1 to $1.7 million. If achieved, that would be a near-record for a modern English literature manuscript.By comparison, the family copy of Thomas Bewick’s “A History of British Birds,” is a bargain, with an estimate of $42,500 to $70,800. The book — featured in “Jane Eyre” — includes copious annotations by Patrick Brontë, the family patriarch.Other items at Sotheby’s speak to the sisters’ close bonds, like this diary-style note Emily wrote to Anne on her birthday in 1841.Yes, that is a tiny drawing of Emily at her writing desk in the left-hand corner.Can we save some love for the least successful sibling, Branwell? In an 1840 letter, he described how, “since my childhood,” he had dedicated himself to “literary composition.”He died in 1848, his ambitions unfulfilled.But how was this library “lost”? Known as the Honresfield [sic] Library, it was assembled by two Victorian merchant brothers. It fell out of public view in the 1930s after their heir died, and few scholars knew where the collection was, or if it was still intact.Not everyone is overjoyed with the auction. The Brontë Society has called for the collection to be kept “intact and whole,” and available to the public. In 2019, the society raised nearly $800,000 to buy this matchbook-sized book written by a 14-year-old Charlotte. (Jennifer Schuessler)
Around eight years ago, Michael Stewart embarked on two projects that have led him to a third.In 2013 the award-winning Bradford-based writer initiated the idea of a literary trail celebrating the Brontës that would also showcase talented contemporary women writers.Four stones were engraved with poems, written by Kate Bush, Jeanette Winterson, Jackie Kay and Carol Ann Duffy, representing each of the sisters and their legacy.They were then placed in the landscape that inspired the Brontës’ writing and each stone has a walk associated with it. The project was launched in July 2018 at Bradford Literature Festival.That year also saw the publication of Stewart’s well-received novel Ill Will sparked by the mystery surrounding Heathcliff who in chapter nine of Emily Brontë’s extraordinary story runs away, returning three years later, quite changed. Stewart’s novel, which is every bit as gritty, shocking and visceral as Emily’s, imagines what Heathcliff got up to during his absence.“While I was researching both those projects I did a lot of walking up on the moors,” says Stewart. “I also recreated the walk that Cathy’s father Mr Earnshaw made in Wuthering Heights on foot from Yorkshire to Liverpool and the walk that Heathcliff takes in my book – I wrote that section of the book as I walked."It was a new way of writing for me – and it really opened things up. I started to think that something that hasn’t really been done before is a kind of hybrid memoir in which the reader walks the landscape with the writer.”Hence his latest book Walking the Invisible: Following in the Footsteps of the Brontës which encourages people to visit significant locations connected to the Brontës.“Walking up on the moors, I felt I gained a more profound understanding of the texts,” he says. “I first read Wuthering Heights when I was about 17 and I revisited it when I was writing Ill Will."Being out in the landscape definitely gives it another layer – I realised I hadn’t engaged with it fully before. So I think it is really important to encourage others to experience that and get out there.”The book also contains maps of all the Brontë Stones walks, designed and beautifully illustrated by cartographer Chris Goddard, in the Wainwright tradition.“When I was a kid I lived in a very urban area and didn’t really do any walking but I used to go to the library and look at the Wainwright books,” says Stewart.“There is a lot of social history in them and he talks to people along the way; as a child I found them fascinating. Even though I had never been to the places he was describing, I just enjoyed the walks in my head.”Aside from encouraging people to walk in the landscape, Stewart hopes his book might also lead to a reassessment of the literary sisters and explode some of the myths that have grown up around them. “The coarseness or roughness of the Brontës has been smoothed out over time,” he says.“I think the heritage industry has done them a bit of a disservice by softening them and I want this book in part to restore their edginess.” (Yvette Huddleston)
“But while you’re sinning, learn from novels:There’s Rochester—he never grovels.Onegin has great pistol aim.Cruel Heathcliff swaggers to acclaim.Ape Ahab for his hunting skill—All men need some white whale to kill.”A mock-epic roll call indeed. This seemingly casual run-through of heroic (deranged?) heroes of 19th-century novels, all with Byronic aspects to their character, is deftly done. (James Sale)
Emily Brontë concluded in her poem, Spellbound:"Clouds beyond clouds above me,Wastes beyond wastes below;But nothing drear can move me;I will not, cannot go." (Brian Wightman)
When I started reading, I was swept away. The fact now surprises me. I loved reading, but I was wonderfully ignorant, knew nothing of homosexuality or even sexuality, and hadn’t yet reached the age of university pretension. I would read anything and everything: Little Women side by side with Jane Eyre; the latest doctor and nurse romance; a comic or cereal packet. (Lisa Appignanesi)
"The book that I always return to may surprise some people, but it's Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. It's a book that on the surface seems like something I would not be interested in. It's canonical literature. It's British literature. It's literature not authored by a writer of colour. But it is one of the earliest stories that I can recognize of trans-racial adoption."Depending on how people feel about Heathcliff, his childhood, the outcome of his life, it tells me a lot about how they understand the experiences of young people of colour being raised in white families."
De estilo moderno, mezclaba distintas voces y tiempos en una sola narración, pero su ideario permanecía en el filo del romanticismo, entre el sufrimiento de las mujeres no emancipadas y el rechazo frontal de los esquemas tradicionales, un feminismo visceral pero inteligente. De ahí su apego a figuras inmediatamente anteriores a ella, como las hermanas Brönte [sic] y Emily Dickinson, cuya rebelión se expresó de forma extraña, marginal. Las primeras se encerraron en los grandes espacios abiertos, los páramos de una naturaleza incontrolable. La segunda se recluyó físicamente y creó poesía ultraterrenal en un complejo claustrofóbico. Como ellas, Rhys caminó sola en un viaje continuo por ciudades y continentes, sintiéndose extraña en todas partes, salvo en el universo interior de la escritura. [...]Por fin, en 1966, se publicó su última novela: Ancho mar de los Sargazos. Esta vez, el mundo entero quedó asombrado con una historia que era, de nuevo, la de Jean Rhys y la expiación personal con la que se castigó dura y excesivamente por el pasado de su familia. Pero ahora se había transmutado en un fantasma: un personaje de la novela de Charlotte Brönte [sic], Jane Eyre, que no dice una sola palabra. Rhys da voz a la primera esposa de Mr. Rochester, esa presencia amenazadora que está encerrada en el ático de la mansión Fairfax y que termina por destruir la hacienda y casi acaba con su marido. La mujer isleña con la que el protagonista se habría casado para lograr una dote, (la avaricia y las leyes puritanas: era hijo segundo y no heredaba un centavo de la fortuna familiar). Rhys no solo es capaz de convertir a ese personaje fantasma que merodea por la novela de Brönte [sic] en un ser humano con una historia extraordinaria de espíritus y venganzas, en la que también escuchamos la versión del joven marido y entendemos esta extraña relación, sino que consigue algo inaudito: que la novela sea una obra maestra a partir de otra obra maestra. Y que las lectoras no podamos volver a leer Jane Eyre con los mismos ojos: quizá la primera esposa de Rochester, la mujer pálida recluida en una habitación, no era una pobre loca con ataques de furia y ninfomanía, sino el resultado de un lento proceso de alienación de la política poscolonial y las fuerzas del nuevo orden capitalista. La obra de Jean Rhys permanece sólida ante las tormentas y el fuego. (Grace Morales) (Translation)
At the Cyril Jennings Hall, in the Salisbury township of Highfield, in a gesture in which Mugabe involved ordinary Zimbabweans in nationalism, Mugabe’s youth ordered the attendants, estimated to be between 15 000 and 20 000, to take off their shoes, ties and jackets, symbolic of their rejection of European civilisation.Those who were thirsty would be served water in clay pots which, until then, had been considered a mark of barbarity, to be used furtively, at night, at ceremonies to honour the ancestor dead. What was going on was reminiscent of Heathcliff, who, in Emily Brontë’s great novel Wuthering Heights, cried out: “I shall be dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty.” (Percy Zvomuya)
Levante (Spain) interviews the writer Purificació Mascarell:
Voro Contreras: «Una historia inglesa», por ejemplo, es una lección de literatura gótica.
P.M.: Si me preguntaras nunca diría que mi literatura preferida es la inglesa. Pero después, pensándolo, me doy cuenta de que me he pasado la vida leyendo literatura inglesa y que siempre me ha gustado. Y por eso he querido hacer un homenaje llevado al presente a esas novelas de institutriz del siglo XIX, a las hermanas Brontë, a Poe, a la literatura gótica… (Translation)
En los primeros momentos del duelo, no deseamos escapar de la memoria, no queremos volver a la vida normal. La idea misma del consuelo suena a deserción, a falsedad, a despropósito. Durante las horas vacías, invitamos al espectro, le rogamos que nos obsesione y embruje nuestra casa. Así lo cuenta Emily Brontë, con torrencial romanticismo, en Cumbres borrascosas. Los protagonistas se enamoran, se traicionan y se aniquilan el uno al otro con desamparada crueldad. Parecen empeñados en destruir toda posibilidad de final feliz, pero cada vez se necesitan más. Cuando Catherine está a punto de morir, Heathcliff le suplica que lo persiga: “Hay espíritus que andan errantes por el mundo. Quédate siempre conmigo, toma cualquier forma, vuélveme loco. Pero no me dejes solo”. Emily escribió la novela mientras cuidaba a su hermano, enfermo de tuberculosis, durante largas vigilias agónicas. En su libro, las apariciones expresan un deseo que reconocemos bien: la permanencia del ser amado. Ella, la recluida hija de un pastor anglicano, pensaba que la fantasía es un distrito de lo cotidiano. Los fantasmas existen —aunque no sean reales— porque los necesitamos. No sabemos vivir sin los muertos. (Irene Vallejo) (Translation)
Children’s Books: An American Jane EyreAlso on Publishers Weekly:
In ‘The Hired Girl,’ young readers get a heroine not just for the early 20th century, but also for our own time. (...)
When her father abruptly forbids further schooling and destroys her treasured novels, however, the girl is made desperate. Joan has little education and even less money, but having covertly perused the help-wanted ads in the newspaper, she reasons that, like Jane Eyre, she too can find at least “a new servitude.” (Meghan Cox Gurdon)
Joan is reminiscent of heroines like Anne Shirley, Jo March, Cassandra Mortmain, and her own favorite character, Jane Eyre (Joan even gives herself a fittingly literary alias, Janet Lovelace). Her overactive imagination, passions, and impulsive disregard for propriety often get Joan into trouble, but these same qualities will endear her to readers everywhere.The Times' Six of the Best mentions Bertha Mason in an article on portraits of madness by Lisa Appignanesi.
Eight-year-old Charlotte Brontë was described by hers in less than glowing terms: she ‘writes indifferently’ and ‘knows nothing of grammar, geography, history or accomplishments’. (Lucky Vickery)Clovis News Journal lists some of the new books at the local library:
“The Lost Child,” by Caryl Phillips conjures a young Heathcliff, the antihero of Wuthering Heights, and his ragged existence before Mr. Earnshaw brought him home to his family in a sweeping story of orphans and outcasts haunted by the past and fighting to liberate themselves from it.The Guardian's Fashion hot news includes:
Alasdair McLellan’s ads for Margaret Howell Wish You Were Here meets Wuthering Heights.The Yorkshire Evening Post announces some of the highlights of the upcoming (October 2-18) Ilkley Literature Festival:
Other performance pieces this year include Nine Lives about the experiences of a young asylum seeker in the UK, written by Leeds-based playwright Zodwa Nyoni and We are Brontë, a knockabout comic physical theatre show about the real and imaginary worlds of Yorkshire’s most famous literary siblings. (...)The Irish Times and some so-called first-world problems:
The Brontës provide one of the festival’s seven key themes this year – After Waterloo: The Brontës and Their World. “We have a whole range of Brontë anniversaries coming up and we wanted to do something the set the stage for that,” says Feldberg. “The Battle of Waterloo happened a few years before the Brontës were born and they were fascinated by Napoleon and Wellington. I thought it would be interesting for audiences to see what the world the Brontës came in to was like.” Events that come under this strand include Clare Harman talking about her new biography of Charlotte Brontë, while novelist Patricia Dunker considers Charlotte’s lesser known novel Villette, once described as ‘too subversive to be popular’.
We are born to worry. No starving person will fret much about whether university administrators have placed “trigger warnings” in copies of Jane Eyre. People who really have life-threatening illnesses don’t bother with the imaginary ailments that affect the worried well. (Donald Clarke)More Bustle lists: Books To Read Now That You’re Mature Enough To Really Get What They’re About
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëMore Grey stuff in Las Provincias (Spain):
As an eight-year-old I took it upon myself to try and read Charlotte Brontë’s masterpiece, Jane Eyre. I have no idea why I thought I’d be able to read it: I think I had heard it was about a ghost in a castle attic and that seemed appealing. Even in college I never had the opportunity to read it for class, and I floated through life, vaguely aware of what Jane Eyre was about, never having read it. Finally, on a long flight, I read the entire book, at the age of 28, was shocked to find the book about much more than the mysterious Mr. Rochester and that ghost in the attic. It’s really a novel about Jane, of course, and about staying true to oneself at all costs. (Jessica Ferri)
Sí, lo confieso, yo he leído las 50 sombras. Cómo lectora empedernida que soy, devoro todo lo que cae en mis manos desde Murakami a Megan Maxwell, pasando por las hermanas Brontë, qué le vamos a hacer… Por eso me apetecía escribir sobre este “fenómeno” por llamarlo de alguna manera. (María José Pau) (Translation)Keighley News reports the uncertain future of the Brontë Weaving Shed store in Haworth; The Guardian publishes the obituary of Clifford Hatts (1921-2015), production designer of, among many others (notably the Quatermass and the Pit series), Wuthering Heights 1962. Reads and Daydreams vlogs about tv and film adaptations of Jane Eyre. A room of one's own discusses Jane Eyre, The Yellow Wallpaper, and abusive males in 19th century literature.
Let's open this Saturday newsround with a Rochester identikit picture. The Composites creates "images (...) using law enforcement composite sketch software and descriptions of literary characters". The right hand side portrait uses the following description:Mr. Rochester, his foot supported by the cushion; he was looking at Adèle and the dog: the fire shone full on his face. I knew my traveller with his broad and jetty eyebrows; his square forehead, made squarer by the horizontal sweep of his black hair. I recognised his decisive nose, more remarkable for character than beauty; his full nostrils, denoting, I thought, choler; his grim mouth, chin, and jaw—yes, all three were very grim, and no mistake. His shape, now divested of cloak, I perceived harmonised in squareness with his physiognomy…My master’s colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth.Flavorwire talks about these portraits (and thinks that this Rochester is a quite a Javier Bardem lookalike) and FemPop Magazine is quite shocked with Rochester:
We all have our personal favorite Mr. Rochester (sup Michael Fassbinder you potentially spouse abusing dude you), but what happens when you take Brontë’s description of the dour dude who stores crazy wives in the attic and put it into the same software that the police use to build composite sketches of suspects? You get this guy! He's a bowl cut away from murdering people in No Country For Old Men. I bet your sex feelings for him have puttered out now eh? Mine too. (Alex Cranz)The press releases of Andrea Clarke's book Love Letters: 2000 years of romance, edited by the British Library, mentioning the letters of Charlotte Brontë to M. Heger have generated some regular articles (The Daily Beast) and a lot of very funny ones mainly in the foreign press (we love the soap opera tone of ABC's "El amor prohibido de Charlotte Brontë" (The forbidden love of Charlotte Brontë) but arguably the best one is Télam's "Publican las cartas que la autora de Cumbres Borrascosas escribió a un amor prohibido" (Forbidden love letters by the author of Wuthering Heights published). The Telegraph has also something to say, not so funny we are afraid:
There is one of Charlotte Brontë’s love letters, written in French to a married professor. His wife retrieved the missive from a bin and stitched it back together after her husband had torn it up. (Anne Sebba)Rachel Ward chooses Esther Summerson from Bleak House as her favourite Dickens character in The Telegraph and mentions Charlotte Brontë's comments about the character:
Charlotte Brontë may have described her as “weak and twaddling,” but she’s the only woman that Dickens allows a pen and he brilliantly projects Esther as his type of ideal woman, with her modesty, perceptiveness, and moral responsibility.The Times lists the 100 more relevant names in British cinema:
Andrea Arnold Writer, director. The children’s TV presenter turned writer-director has applied her bleak naturalism to modern urban dramas (Red Road, Fish Tank) and Brontë’s moors (Wuthering Heights). She is currently developing a Chicago police comedy series for HBO called Dirty.The Daily Post's tips for Valentine's Day are a very frightening thing:
Whether you’re inspired by Emily Bronte or Robert Browning, try penning a masterpiece to woo a potential lover. On the pretty Greek island of Skyros and under the tutelage of distinguished writers, you get the chance to indulge your creative side surrounded by idyllic landscapes and friendly people. If you don’t find the perfect partner, you will at least be well equipped to woo. (Sarah Gordon)But we have more Valentine stuff around:
The five best romantic novels for people who hate romance, according to Michelle Kerns of Examiner.com: 1. “Persuasion” by Jane Austen. 2. “The Scarlet Pimpernel” by Baroness Orczy. 3. “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë. 4. "Menfreya in the Morning” by Victoria Holt. 5. “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen.CNews:
Still, I imagine that Harlequin novels have become a little more liberally sprinkled with overt phraseology--since the days when your mother's heart might have pitter-pattered at the idea that Heathcliff would clutch her to his bosom.The Guardian:
Sadly, this report revealed that modern-day Heathcliffs are an extinct breed. For 75 percent of women thought their dating life duller than a New Jersey lake in February. (Chris Matyszczyk)
So which writer has taught me most? Is it John Donne with his precise yet violent collisions between time and desire? Or Montaigne for whom friendship reigns supreme? Or Jane Austen with her girl meets boy tales and that romance of a marital happily-ever-after so thoroughly grounded in the realities of property? Was it Emily Brontë, with her wild dreams of twinship with Byronic Heathcliff? (Lisa Appignanesi)Also in The Guardian a Valentine's literary quiz:
In Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Jane assumes that Mr Rochester holds affections for one particular woman. She turns out to be totally wrong! Who is this lady?Shore News Today:
Mrs Fairfax
Blanche Ingram
Diana Rivers
Mary Rivers (Alexander Blackman)
Great Romantic Movies: Wuthering Heights. The great Laurence Olivier had one of his finest roles as Bronte’s brooding, debonair hero, Heathcliff, who conquers the world just to win the heart of his beloved, Cathy Earnshaw. Alas, it doesn’t work out quite as planned. A real weeper, rich in ambience, with a superb performance by Merle Oberon as Cathy.Naperville Patch:
Jane Eyre: Another tragic love story that despite the tragedy does come to fruition. (Mary Ann Lopez)International Business Times makes a top ten of romantic books:
Wuthering Heights. Today, when critics take up Emily Brontë’s masterpiece, much of the conversation centers of two pivotal points – the geographical setting for the story (the wild, untamed, harsh and oftentimes angry moors) and the character of the protagonist – Heathcliff. Indeed, so wonderfully are each of the two reflected in the other that sometimes you forget, just occasionally, about the romance and heartache in the plot. Wuthering Heights is not a straightforward love story…. In fact, it isn’t even really a love story. It is a mixture of romance and revenge and why it is special is because of the heart-rending intensity of each.Ramona Sentinel recommends Jane Eyre 2011 for Valentine's Day.
Jane Eyre: Yes… yes… we have another Brontë on the list. It is, perhaps fortunately, a rarity that the world sees such literary brilliance manifest itself thrice in the same generation of a single family. The Brontë sisters – Emily, Charlotte and Anne (a poet but whose literary works include “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, a wonderful read in its own right) – have written and painted with an inimitable style. The realities of a hard life (their two elder sisters, Maria, 11, and Elizabeth, 10, died in 1825 of tuberculosis) and the harsh Yorkshire moors that were their home, coupled with incisive minds resulted in a series of novels, each better than the last. Jane Eyre is about a female protagonist that women from all walks of life have found profoundly moving for over a century… a heroine that must ultimately choose between her desire to be with the man she loves and the morals that form the core of her character.
Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre contains the most erotic passage ever written in English literature. It's the exchange between Jane and Mr. Rochester when she must leave to tend to her ailing Aunt Reed, who lives 100 miles away from Thornfield. Mr. Rochester doesn't want her to go. They negotiate terms: money, how long she will be away etc. There is no physical contact between them – just words, spoken and unspoken – and body language, but it's a powerful description of how they long for each other. Gives me shivers each and every time I read it. (Laurie Glen Norris, Fredericton)The Yorkshire Post talks about the boom in tourism experienced in the region:
Yorkshire has seen a huge increase in tourists from overseas last year after launching a major international marketing campaign across Europe and the Far East. (...)
Andrew McCarthy, the director of the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth said that it has seen eight per cent increase in visitors in the past year. He said the international acclaim of the Brontë’s meant Haworth pulled tourists from around the world – especially from the United States and Japan.
The Brontë Parsonage also appears in this chart in the New York Times about "quests, destinations and quixotic journeys (see right hand side) (by Charles Wilson. Illustrations by David Sparshott).Dario Marianelli with Jack Liebeck. Jane Eyre soundtrack (the year's best traditional score) (...) The score for the fine remake of Jane Eyre is the best orchestral score of the year.Miguel Juan Payán Blog reviews the soundtrack in Spanish.
Caroline has a great voice for covers (request her incredible “Wuthering Heights” next time you see her. (amrit)The Odessa American tells a story about a local retired teacher:
I’m making my debut — my very first day of teaching in my hometown, situated on the moors of West Texas. (See Brontë, Emily.)The Scotsman reviews Little Bones by Janette Jenkins:
I had been given a textbook called Adventures in Appreciation published by Harcourt Brace and Jovanovich. Clutching that book as a baby clutches the blanket with the satin lining, I walk into my classroom and fall in love — with the book.
(I’ll bet you thought I was going to say the local version of Heathcliff wearing cowboy boots was there waiting for me, but I fooled you, didn’t I?) (Charelna Chandler)
As any reader of Dickens, Brontë or Hardy can testify, Victorian literature can be as violent as it is verbose and as gritty as it is grand, qualities that Janette Jenkins replicates in her latest novel. (Rebecca Monks)El Correo Vasco (Spain) reviews the film One Day:
Especialmente recomendada para los lectores/espectadores de lágrima fácil, 'One day' es la alternativa perfecta para el público que no tolera la extrema crueldad de dramas post-mortem como el descrito por Emily Brontë en 'Cumbres borrascosas'. (Josu Eguren) (Translation)Página 12 (Argentina) reviews the film The Woman in Black:
La melancolía, el duelo, la presencia de la muerte como halo fatídico se hacen presentes ya en la secuencia de presentación, en la que Radcliffe –tan pálido y ojeroso como Heathcliff, el casi homófono protagonista de Cumbres borrascosas– prueba, durante la afeitada matutina, apoyar la navaja sobre el cuello y hacer una ligera presión. (Horacio Bernades) (Translation)El Faro de Vigo (Spain) has an article about the Fortes family which includes several writers:
Hace unos ocho años todos viajaron a York. "Alquilamos un bungalow y después cada uno llega cuando quiere o cuando puede, fuimos a varios sitios siguiendo la obra de Emily Brönte (sic) y sobre todo del Tristram Shandy de Laurence Sterne y para mi fue toda una sorpresa, una Inglaterra que no conocía, la continuación de El Quijote en cierto modo, además Susana había leído Cumbres Borrascosas y todo eso así que nos decidimos a recorrer los páramos. Y las noches se dedicaron siempre a los debates literarios". (Translation)We wonder if the Hungarian distributor that has chosen February 14 as the opening night for Wuthering Heights 2011 in Hungary has actually seen the film. Origo filmklub has free tickets for the premiere.
Situationen är minst sagt välbekant, den är en tillspetsning av Schlinks ”Högläsaren”, Nabokovs ”Skratt i mörkret” och, naturligtvis, ”Jane Eyre” där priset för kärlekslycka också är blindhet. (Agneta Ullenius) (Translation)Göteborgs-Posten (Sweden) reviews the Adriano recording of Bernard Herrmann's Jane Eyre soundtrack. A very bad review:
Självlärde dirigenten Adriano har inget efternamn men har spelat in ett mängd skivor för Naxos. Här har han alltså slarvat betydligt med urfin musik som förtjänar bättre.The New Jersey Star-Ledger confirms that Wuthering Heights 2011 will be at the Filmmakers Symposium’s Arthouse Film Festival (starting March 5); HitFix thinks that Jane Eyre 2011 will win the Costume Desing BAFTA tomorrow; the artist Amanda White is 'revisiting' the Brontë Parsonage in winter; Jactherat-Ephemera, lies & chocolate recommends Wuthering Heights for Valentine's Day; Savidge Reads discusses her top Victorian readings, including Emily Brontë's novel; Cabo Kennet (in Spanish) posts about Jane Eyre; Falaise Lynnaenne (in French) reviews Wuthering Heights; Here, There & Everywhere has not understood that Lucasta Miller's The Brontë Myth was not a biography about the Brontës but a book about the biographies on the Brontës; Sylire (in French) reviews Becoming Jane Eyre by Sheila Kohler.
Han låter tuttistråket klara sig bäst de kan, och de kan de inte. Han låter falska horn slinka igenom nålsögat som borde vara hans eget. Så synd på en skiva som för första gången kommer med hela Herrmanns soundtrack, utan bortklippta snuttar.
Dessutom låter inspelningen som om den är gjord med en mick längst bort i en väldigt långsmal konsertlokal där orkestern gömt sig i andra änden. (Hanna Höglund) (Translation)
Financial Times reviews (3 out of 5 stars) the Wuthering Heights opera production in Minnesota (Picture by Michal Daniel):There are enough moments when music and drama come into Hitchcock-like sharpness to make one wish it were all like that. But perfunctoriness often infects scenes that seem more dutifully composed than inspired. Heathcliff is portrayed sympathetically, a victim of Cathy’s mean-spirited brother Hindley, with no inherent diabolical streak. But perhaps this is acceptable operatic simplification, designed to strengthen the love-bond between him and Cathy.Minneapolis Post likes the production:
Herrmann knew something about creating music keenly matched to drama, and his lush, late-Romantic musical palate engages the listener. Several short motifs run through the score. Aria-like numbers, though rarely captivating melodically, affectingly spell well-crafted expository stretches. I left wondering whether on subsequent listening, certain scenes would emerge in sharper relief.
Eric Simonson’s staging, with sets by Neil Patel and costumes by Jane Greenwood, evokes both the fraught ambience of the Heights and the forbidding moors surrounding it. Sara Jakubiak’s bright soprano and clear diction make for a captivating Cathy, a demanding role with two extended scenes in which she anguishes over Heathcliff, who is sung by baritone Lee Poulis in virile voice. Adriana Zabala boils over in frustration as Heathcliff’s eventual wife Isabella, while Michael Christie ably conducts a slimmed down version of the score. (George Loomis)
Despite occasional flaws, the work is a rich and rewarding endeavor, as compelling in dramatic terms as it is musically accomplished, and the superb, thoughtful production it is receiving at the Ordway Center serves only to make the opera's strengths abundantly clear. (...)Minnesota Star Tribune:
Simonson's cast is uniformly strong. Lee Poulis is the handsome Heathcliff, a brooding, powerful presence onstage. His wounded pride and aristocratic bearing enforce Simonson's theory that Heathcliff is the love-child of the elder Earnshaw, whom we don't meet, and is therefore Cathy's half-brother, a relation that Brontë could only hint at. Poulis' rich baritone is a perfect match for Sara Jakubiak's soaring, firm-toned soprano — and a wonderful characterization here, too, a woman torn between conflicting impulses — nature verses respectability.
Among the others, Ben Wager was compelling on opening night as the dissolute Hindley, Adriana Zabala was a sweet Isabella and Eric Margiore an earnest Edgar. Victoria Vargas was fine as Nelly, Rodolfo Nietro a properly stern Joseph and Jesse Blumberg a believably nervous Lockwood. (Blumberg's "snow, ever-lasting snow" got a knowing laugh from the audience Saturday night. Brontë would have felt at home in a Minnesota winter.) Jane Greenwood designed the costumes and Robert Wierzel the lights. Heidi Spesard-Noble choreographed the dances, executed so winningly by Jeremy Bensussan and Megan McClellan.
Conductor Michael Christie drew a polished, passionate performance from the orchestra, and Herrmann's many brief but telling woodwind solos came through beautifully. It's a brilliant score in many ways. Much of it is delicate chamber music, though the climaxes, like that of the first act, are almost over-powering in their force. (Yes, we do hear echoes of Herrmann film scores such as "Vertigo" and "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.")
And what of that awkward ending that Herrmann left us? Heathcliff is supposed to wander the moors endlessly searching for Cathy. Simonson has him lie down with her on the table, as if joining her in death, and then carrying her decayed body across a field. Grim, perhaps, but surely a better solution than having the two of them climb toward heaven and the celestial choir, as happens in the 1939 movie. (Michael Anthony)
Most of the musical interest resides in the orchestra. The resplendent music is reminiscent of Herrmann's film scores, but it is rooted firmly in the tradition of American romanticism, exemplified by composers like Samuel Barber.His loss.
The vocal line is mainly extended recitatives, broken up by arioso and a number of extended arias. But too many of them are of similar tempo and mood, resulting in a sameness of vocal utterance.
Conductor Michael Christie led a brisk performance, but he could not overcome the opera's fatal flaw: Herrmann's lack of experience in pacing opera. Too often, forward momentum is sacrificed to orchestral expressiveness, as in Act IV, when another interlude interrupts drama that should be propelling to the climax.
The physical production could hardly be bettered. Neil Patel's set creatively contrasts an oppressive and gloomy Wuthering Heights estate with the elegant and airy neighboring Thrushcross Grange. Wendall K. Harrington's projections create an effective visual representation of the music.
Under Eric Simonson's direction, Heathcliff and Cathy come across as a pair of passionate lovers, compelling in their all-consuming ardor. The details of his staging give the over-the-top story an emotional verisimilitude.
Lee Poulis' Heathcliff was a most vivid characterization. He brought a Byronic presence and a dark baritone, rich in colors. He was capable of dark rage, but became all the more engaging in stillness.
Sara Jakubiak made Cathy's casual selfishness palatable. She has a silvery, gleaming soprano, but needed more heft to fully scale the heights of dramatic intensity called for by the music.
Minnesota Opera makes a strong case for "Wuthering Heights," but this is an opera I never need to hear again. (William Randall Beard)
Top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through SundaySome blogs reviewing the film: Through the Shattered Lens, Always, Capra, Rusty Sarcasm, Everyday adventures (of me at the city), TTPost (in Korean), Smoke~~, InvadeNola, The Enchanting Butterfly.
16. "Jane Eyre," Focus, $993,232, 274 locations, $3,625 average, $6,605,035, six weeks.
In spite of the confusion introduced by [John] Brown’s character, this was still a professional production, well directed by Colin Lewisohn and sympathetically staged, and there were many, many instances of a real understanding of difficult characters. Particularly clever was the way in which Branwell was made to lift well turned phrases from his fiction and insert them into his letters. Indeed, the use of the text of Brontë letters was extremely well done. Costumes and props were simple but appropriate and stage management neat and as unobtrusive as possible within a studio setting. (Chris Went)BWW interviews the actress Jamie Farmer, a true Brontëite:
If you could play any role, direct any work, design any production, mount any production...what would it be and why? I want to play Cathy in a gorgeous, startling, spooky, dramatic, violent, unsettling and unapologetically romantic staging of Wuthering Heights. I would also love to do a one woman show about Emily Brontë. (Jeffrey Ellis)The Herald reviews the book All About Love. Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion by Lisa Appignanesi:
But what better description is there of love, first or otherwise, than when Emily Bronte’s heroine Catherine Earnshaw describes her feelings for Heathcliff: “He’s always, always in my mind, not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.” It is this – the most fierce, painful, searing of bonds – that dominates and ignites Appignanesi’s work. (Rosemary Goring)Owls go hoot posts pictures of Top Withens and Brontë country; Basically, I'll Read Anything reviews Wuthering Heights; sand is overrated... (in Swedish) and Cindy's Book Club post about Jane Eyre. EDIT: James Dumb alerts us of another No Coward Soul is Mine reading on Erodiade2008's YouTube channel.
An alert from the Brontë Parsonage Museum:Categories: Brontë Parsonage Museum, TalksLisa Appignanesi – Mad, Bad & Sad
Novelist, writer and president of English PEN, Lisa Appignanesi will be visiting Haworth to speak about her book ‘Mad, Bad & Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800’. The event will take place on Wednesday 28 April at 2pm, at the West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth and forms part of the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s contemporary arts programme.
Mad, Bad & Sad explores the ways in which women’s mental disorders and states of mind have been understood since the 1800s, from the depression suffered by Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to the mental anguish and addictions of iconic beauties Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe. The book also explores Charlotte Brontë’s use of madness in Jane Eyre, with its famous portrayal of Bertha Mason, the ‘madwoman in the attic’, drawing on Victorian ideas of madness.
The book has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson, the Warwick and the MIND prizes and has won the Medical Journalist’s Award.
Lisa Appignanesi was born in Poland and grew up in France and Canada. A novelist, writer and broadcaster, she is former deputy director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, chair of the Freud Museum and president of English PEN.
Pictures inspired by Emily Bronte’s descriptions of weather are to go on show in Haworth.Cape Argus (South Africa) mentions the dangers of playing family games at Christmas:
Jo Brown will display abstract paintings inspired by the Wuthering Heights author’s poems.
The exhibition, The Sunbeam and the Storm, will be at the Bronte Parsonage Museum from March 5 to May 3.
The parsonage will also host an appearance by writer Lisa Appignanesi on March 10. She will talk about her latest book, The Mad, Bad and Sad: a History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800.
The book, shortlisted for several awards, includes the cases of writers such as Charlotte Bronte and Virginia Woolf.
An Afternoon with Persephone Books will feature a talk by the firm’s founder Nicola Beauman on March 24. It publishes novels, dairies, short stories and cookery books by women writers.
Every Christmas we play a board game. (...) This year we opted for 30 Seconds, a general knowledge game. (...) According to R, (...) one of the Brontë Sisters penned Little House on the Prairie[.]The Wall Street Journal mentions the Harper Teen covers of Wuthering Heights (and other novels) marketed à la Twilight. Curiously, The Celebrity Café poses the following question:
The massive numbers of “units” shifted by Meyer, Rowling et al show that in their creation they must be doing something right, but the same cultural theorists warned of a “dumbing down” in culture, and can anyone honestly say that 200 years from now “New Moon” or “Eclipse” will be looked upon as Meyer herself seemingly looks upon “Wuthering Heights”? (Andrew MacLaughlin)We don't want to sound highbrow, but we think we know the answer to the question.
J'ai beaucoup aimé me replonger dans cette oeuvre, et le fait de voir les choses du point de vue de Rochester est assez plaisant.Categories: Brontë Parsonage Museum, Jane Eyre, References, Sequels, Wuthering Heights
On dirait un peu un journal intime, où Rochester écrirait ses pensées, raconterait sa journée à un lecteur, qui au fur et à mesure de la lecture, devient un peu son confident. Il prend beaucoup les lecteurs comme témoin ou lui posent des questions.. Cela peut être assez déroutant durant les premieres pages.. (Google translation)
A press release from the Brontë Parsonage Museum:Also on the Brontë Parsonage Blog.BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD LAUNCHES NEW SEASON OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS EVENTS AT THE BRONTË PARSONAGE MUSEUM
The Brontë Parsonage Museum launches its new Contemporary Arts Programme this month, with an evening with internationally bestselling novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford on Saturday 19 September at 7.30pm at the Old Schoolroom, Haworth. The event will see Yorkshire-born Barbara Taylor Bradford return to the UK as part of a special tour celebrating 30 years since the publication of her landmark novel A Woman of Substance and her new book Breaking The Rules. Barbara Taylor Bradford will be discussing her books, career and love of the Brontës with arts critic and journalist Danuta Kean.
This special event is the first in a new season of contemporary arts events to take place at the Brontë Parsonage Museum between September 2009 and March 2010. Other high profile events will include readings by Sarah Waters (on the left) and Tracy Chevalier (on the right), and a talk by screenwriter Peter Bowker who recently adapted Wuthering Heights for ITV1.
As well as its usual mix of visual arts exhibitions, talks and workshops, the museum is currently receiving funding from Arts Council England to develop a season of events that showcase and celebrate women’s writing. Arts Officer Jenna Holmes says:“The Brontës were pioneering women writers and we are delighted that Arts Council England is supporting us to really explore and highlight theThe full details of the new programme are listed below:Brontës’ influence on contemporary women writers today. This special strand of programming includes visits by high-profile women writers such as Sarah Waters and Barbara Taylor Bradford, but it also enables us to appoint a writer-in-residence, Katrina Naomi, to explore the museum collections and work with community groups, as well as allowing us to support emerging women writers and introduce new creative writing projects and events for everyone who comes to the museum”.
Sam Taylor-Wood: Ghosts
Until Monday 2 November
Brontë Parsonage Museum
Landscape photographs of the moors around Haworth, inspired by Wuthering Heights, by major British artist Sam Taylor-Wood. Free on admission to the museum.
A Woman of Substance: An Evening with Barbara Taylor Bradford
Saturday 19 September
7.30pm, Old Schoolroom, Church St, Haworth
Internationally bestselling novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford will be visiting the Brontë Parsonage Museum as part of the 30th anniversary celebrations of her landmark novel, A Woman of Substance, and the release of her new book, Breaking The Rules. She will be speaking about her work and the influence of the Brontës with journalist and arts critic Danuta Kean.
Barbara Taylor Bradford was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, and was a reporter for the Yorkshire Evening Post at sixteen. By the age of twenty she had graduated to London's Fleet Street as both an editor and columnist. In 1979, she wrote her first novel, A Woman of Substance, and that enduring bestseller has been followed by 24 others. Her novels have sold more than 81 million copies worldwide in more than 90 countries and 40 languages. Barbara Taylor Bradford lives in New York City.
Tickets are £5 and should be booked in advance.
Bookings: 01535 640188 / jenna.holmes@bronte.org.uk
National Poetry Day – Writer in Residence
Saturday 10 October
Brontë Parsonage Museum
Poet Katrina Naomi is the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s first Writer in Residence, and over the coming months will be working in the collections, as well as facilitating a special community project. To mark National Poetry Day, Katrina Naomi will be engaging with museum visitors for the day, to produce new poems inspired by visitor responses.
Katrina Naomi is originally from Margate and now lives in London. Her first full collection The Girl with the Cactus Handshake will be published in October 2009. She won the 2008 Templar Poetry Competition and her pamphlet Lunch at the Elephant & Castle was published later that year. She has received an Arts Council England writer's award and a Hawthornden Fellowship, and has an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths. Katrina is also a lecturer in creative writing for the Open University.
Free on admission to the Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Tracy Chevalier
Friday 16 October
7.30pm, West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth
Novelist Tracy Chevalier will be visiting Haworth to read from and discuss her new novel, Remarkable Creatures. The novel tells the story of Mary Anning, who in nineteenth-century Lyme Regis discovers the first pre-dinosaur fossils which will pave the way for Darwin’s theory of evolution.
Tracy Chevalier is the author of five previous novels, including the international bestseller Girl with a Pearl Earring (1999), The Virgin Blue (1997), Falling Angels (2001), The Lady and the Unicorn (2003) and Burning Bright (2007). Born in Washington, DC, she now lives in London with her husband and son. She is Chairman of the Society of Authors.
Tickets are £5 and should be booked in advance.
Bookings: 01535 640188 / jenna.holmes@bronte.org.uk
Peter Bowker and Wuthering Heights
Saturday 24 October, 7pm
West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth
BAFTA winning screenwriter Peter Bowker will talk about his recent work adapting Wuthering Heights for television. Peter will be joined by director Coky Giedroyc and (filming schedules permitting) other key members of the production team to discuss the process of transferring the story from page to screen. The costumes from the ITV production are currently on display at the Parsonage.
Peter Bowker wrote Blackpool for the BBC, and adapted A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2005) and Chaucer’s The Miller’s Tale (2003) for television. His ITV movie Buried Treasure won the BAFTA Lew Grade Award for Most Popular Drama in 2001, and his television film, Flesh and Blood won the Prix Europa and two Royal Television Society awards in 2002. His three part drama, Occupation, about three British soldiers serving in Iraq was shown on BBC1 in 2009.
Tickets are £10 and must be booked in advance. Bookings: 01535 640188 / jenna.holmes@bronte.org.uk
From Laptop to Bookshop: The Mslexia Roadshow
Saturday 28 November
Mslexia is a magazine dedicated to women writers. The Mslexia Roadshow offers a day of creative writing opportunities and to hear a successful author discuss her work. Each event can be booked onto individually or you can take part in the whole day.10am – 12pm, West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth
- Mslexia Workshop 1: Writing a synopsis
Led by novelist and founder of Mslexia Debbie Taylor, this creative writing workshop is aimed at novelists. It will help you identify what your novel is really about, and communicate it to an agent or editor.
Tickets £10 and includes admission to the museum; women only; places are limited and must be booked in advance.
Bookings: 01535 640188 / jenna.holmes@bronte.org.uk1.30pm- 3.30pm, West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth
- Mslexia Workshop 2: First Paragraph
Led by novelist and experienced creative writing tutor Jane Rogers, this workshop is aimed at novelists and short story writers and will help you create an arresting first paragraph.
Tickets £10 and includes admission to the museum; women only; places are limited and must be booked in advance.
Bookings: 01535 640188 / jenna.holmes@bronte.org.uk
Sarah Waters in conversation
6pm, West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth
Sarah Waters will be in conversation with Mslexia founder Debbie Taylor about her writing career and her latest novel, The Little Stranger.
Sarah Waters was born in Wales in 1966. She has a Ph.D. in English Literature and has been an associate lecturer with the Open University. She has won a Betty Trask Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and was twice shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. In 2003, she was named Author of the Year three times and was also chosen as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. Fingersmith won the CWA Ellis Peters Dagger Award for Historical Crime Fiction and the South Bank Show Award for Literature and both Fingersmith and The Night Watch were shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange prizes. Tipping the Velvet, Affinity and Fingersmith have all been adapted for television. The Night Watch is currently in development with the BBC. The Little Stranger has been long listed for the Man Booker Prize 2009.
Tickets are £8 and should be booked in advance; all welcome.
Bookings: 01535 640188 / jenna.holmes@bronte.org.uk
Mr Lockwood’s Confusing Christmas
Saturday 12 December
Brontë Parsonage Museum
It’s Christmas and characters from the Brontës’ novels have escaped the pages of their books and been let loose in the Parsonage, where mayhem unfolds. What would happen if Mr Rochester met Cathy under the mistletoe, or Jane Eyre came across Heathcliff in the graveyard with a shovel? And when will Nelly Dean sort out that strange laughter coming from the attic?
Event takes place throughout the day. Free on admission to the museum.
Jo Brown: The Sunbeam and the Storm
Friday 5 March – Monday 3 March
Brontë Parsonage Museum
Artist Jo Brown exhibits a series of abstract paintings inspired by descriptions of weather in Emily Brontë’s poems.
Jo Brown was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and studied in Yorkshire, at Bretton Hall College then Sheffield Hallam University, gaining a BA (Hons) in Fine Art in 1995. She was artist in residence at Dean Clough, Halifax in 1995 and has since exhibited regularly in municipal and commercial galleries in England, Scotland and the USA. Free on admission to the Brontë Parsonage Museum
Lisa Appignanesi: Mad, Bad and Sad
Wednesday 10 March, 2pm
PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL WEDNESDAY 28 APRIL 2010
West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth
“Charlotte Brontë’s portrait of Bertha Mason, the ‘mad, bad and embruted’ wife of Rochester in Jane Eyre has taken on iconic value. But by the time Brontë penned it, she was drawing on what were already old images of madness, probably garnered from the notorious Bedlam”. Lisa Appignanesi
Lisa Appignanesi will be talking about her latest book MAD, BAD and SAD: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800. Including writers such as Charlotte Brontë, Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath, this is the history of the study of the female mind over the past two centuries. The book has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson, the Warwick, the MIND and has won the Medical Journalist’s Award.
Lisa Appignanesi is a novelist, writer and broadcaster, she is former deputy director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, chair of the Freud Museum and president of English PEN.
Admission is £3 and there is no need to book in advance
An Afternoon with Persephone Books
Wednesday 24 March, 2pm
West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth
Persephone Books reprints neglected novels, diaries, short stories and cookery books by women writers such as Dorothy Whipple and Katherine Mansfield. Founder Nicola Beauman talks about the origins of Persephone, how books are chosen and some of the authors.
Admission is £3 and there is no need to book in advance
When I started reading, I was swept away. The fact now surprises me. I loved reading, but I was wonderfully ignorant, knew nothing of homosexuality or even sexuality, and hadn't yet reached the age of university pretension. I would read anything and everything: Little Women side by side with Jane Eyre; the latest doctor and nurse romance; a comic or cereal packet.The Davidson County Dispatch publishes an article by a local high school student about the pleasures of reading a good book:
In my English class, we just finished reading “Jane Eyre.” I feel that it is Jane herself who has brought about my interest in reading, because even though she dealt with many difficult things in her life, she could always find happiness in a good book. (Molly McGee)The Modesto Bee insists on the same recommendation:
If you are in the mood for a dark, eerie romance and a feminist account of the journey to find oneself, pick up the classic novel "Jane Eyre."The New York Review of Books reviews several compilations of George Orwell's essays. Commenting one of Orwell's boutades, the reviewer says:
The novel focuses on a young orphan who is constantly oppressed by the people in her surroundings. I immediately got swept up in Jane's trials as she attempts to break social barriers, listen to her heart and discover her true identity.
But don't think this book is only for the women, guys. The novel is a beautiful story about overcoming obstacles that may hold you back, as well as learning how to finally become the person you want to be. (Emily Kay Shrader)
Then there is: "A novelist who simply disregards the major public events of the moment is generally either a footler or a plain idiot." Since this dismisses both novelists of the private life and those who (as was common in the nineteenth century) set their stories a generation or two back, out go Austen, the Brontës, Flaubert, James, and so on, and so on. (Julian Barnes)Los Angeles Times reviews the current performances of Dracula at the NoHo Arts Center and finds parallels with Heathcliff:
Bram Stoker's 1897 tale of a parasitic undead aristocrat draining the life from hapless middle-class victims has undergone countless plot transfusions over the decades. But it was Frank Langella's 1977 Broadway performance that put the final stake in the coffin of Stoker's original concept, re-envisioning the vampire count as a brooding romantic figure -- a whiter shade of Heathcliff, as it were. (Philip Brandes)The Economist presents the new book by Elaine Showalter A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx. The Independent has an article about Nelson and his (Duke of) Bronte connections.
Itsaso Lozano escribía por gusto, «por evasión, el placer por crear algo». Profesora de piano, enamorada del campo inglés y de las autoras británicas de finales del siglo XIX -como Jane Austen y las hermanas Brontë (Emily y Charlotte)-, Lozano se planteó seguir el modelo de la 'novela de sentimientos' creado por estas mujeres para su primera obra, que permaneció en un cajón durante cuatro años. (Iñaki Esteban) (Google translation)El País (Spain) interviews also Itsaso Lozano who says:
Pese a que el jurado que la premió creyó ver en ella algo de Carmen Martín Gaite, esta escritora novel se considera deudora de la literatura femenina anglosajona. "Jeane Austin (sic) y las hermanas Brontë, también Rosamunde Pilcher. Lo que no está editado en castellano lo leo en inglés". (S. López) (Google translation)Fluctuat traces a history of the X-Men character, Wolverine. Apparently
en 2001, Jenkins et Isanove révèlent le vrai nom de Wolverine (James Howlett) dans la saga Origins qui reste l’un des plus beaux livres associés au personnage. On découvre un Wolverine plus proche de Heathcliff, le héros des Hauts de Hurlevent que d’un superhéros traditionnel. (Google translation) (Benjamin Berton)Expressen interviews the Swedish actor Michael Nyqvist who reveals that in the autumn he will be part of the cast of a new production of Jane Eyre, but he seems somewhat confused about which sister it was by:
Är du fortfarande anställd på Dramaten?Svenska Dagbladet reviews the theatre play Monsterkabinettet by Malin Axelsson (Stockholms Stadsteater). It seems that the author's inspiration came from Gilbert & Gubar's Madwoman in the attic:
- Ja, och jag ska tillbaka i höst. Jag ska då ... (här bli han tvungen att viskande konsultera pr-mannen) ... vara med i Emilie Brontës "Jane Eyre". (Cecilia Hagen)(Google translation) (Check also Nöje)
Att det blev en pjäs i gotisk anda föll sig naturligt. Malin Axelsson har alltid gillat den sorts melankoliska gotik som bland annat finns i Charlotte Brontës Jane Eyre. Just när hon fick frågan att skriva manus läste hon det litteraturvetenskapliga verket The madwoman in the attic, som med ett feministiskt angreppssätt analyserar Jane Eyre. Hon bestämde sig för att skriva som den galna kvinnan på vinden. (Lina Kalmteg) (Google translation)Mark McNulty Photography posts a panorama of the Brontë Bridge and surroundings, Mariakäfer reviews (in German) Jane Eyre 1944, Of Cabbages and Kings... suggests what kind of blog the Brontë sisters would have published (hint: Blathering Hights).
A couple of Brontë alerts for the ensuing days:Conversations:2. As we informed previously, tomorrow (November 17), the Biennale Teatro di Venezia is hosting a curious initiative trying to revive Bernard de Zogheb's (in the picture) 1968 comic opera Le Sorelle Brontë. The so-called Laboratorio Internazionale del Teatro is working in this pr
Turning Classics Into Comics
William Shakespeare, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde are getting visual makeovers as graphic novels. How does prose transfer to panels? What is lost, and found, in translation?
Adaptors Richard Appignanesi and Ian Edgington talk with their visualisers Mustashrik (Julius Caesar), Chie Kutsuwada (As You Like It) and Ian Culbard (Picture of Dorian Gray), and writer Jason Cobley, illustrators John M. Burns (in the picture) and Mike Collins reveal how they adapted Frankenstein, Jane Eyre and A Christmas Carol.
Supported by Classical Comics, SelfMadeHero & Letraset
Tickets: Each talk - £6, £5 concs, £4 members
Tickets: All three of today's talks - £15, £12 concs, £9 members
Where: Nash & Brandon Rooms, ICA
When: Sunday, 16 November, 6pm to 7.30pm
oject since last November 12, but tomorrow the public presentation will take place. Check this previous post for all the details. Venezia.net has some new information:(Google translation)EDIT: Also in Il Messaggero.
Tra lunedì 17 e giovedì 20 novembre, si attiveranno tre laboratori, complementare gli uni con gli altri poiché tutti hanno come tema portante il Mediterraneo. Inoltre biosogna tener da conto anche che il giorno diciotto vi saranno due proiezioni al Giorgione del filmato L’ultimo Pulcinella, di Scaparro, che ha come protagonista Massimo Ranieri, odierno vincitore del Premio De Sica al Quirinale.
Ieri è arrivato in Laguna per l’occasione Edoardo Bennato. Il rocker partenepeo è uno degli artefici del seminario musicale avente come tema Le sorelle Bronte, capolavoro comico scritto in italiano “maccheronico” dall’”ultimo intellettuale cosmopolita” d’Alessandria d’Egitto, il siro-libanese Bernard de Zogheb. L’opera verrà messa in scena dal regista Davide Livermore e dal musicologo Stefano Valanzuolo. Obiettivo del laboratorio è l’elaborazione di un linguaggio musical-teatrale che contribuisca a formare un gruppo di artisti capaci di ricreare quell’ambiente alessandrino interculturale - celebrato da de Zogheb ne Le sorelle Brontë - in cui confluiscono e si mescolano il café chantant, il melodramma italiano, il grand opéra francese, la zarzuela, il recitar cantando secentesco e, quindi, la rivista italiana. Chi meglio di Edoardo Bennato, che sta per completare l’allestimento del suo Spettacolo musicale Peter Pan the rock musica, poteva dare dei validi suggerimenti all’elaborazione dello spettacolo che poi andrà in scena a febbraio?
Maurizio Scaparro ha presentato invece stamattina al Teatro Piccolo Arsenale un frammento di ciò che sarà Polvere di Bagdad all’interno del laboratorio C’era una volta, che prende le mosse da un percorso a ritroso verso e radici della civiltà: dall’Asia Minore alla Sicilia, passando per il Maghreb e l’Andalusia. Scaparro vuole così evidenziare i successivi affinamenti di un comune linguaggio orale, leLe Mille e una notte che diventano Cunto de li cunti e Teatro Delle Ombre. (Tania Danieli)
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