A couple of recent or upcoming novels with Brontë references:TrespassAnd this recently Spanish novel contains several Jane Eyre references:
Valerie Martin
Format: Hardcover
Random House (Nan A. Talese)
Pub Date: September 2007
ISBN: 978-0-385-51545-0 (0-385-51545-6)
Chloe Dale’s life is in good order. Her only child, Toby, has started his junior year at New York University; her husband, an academic on sabbatical, is working at home on his book about the Crusades; and Chloe is busy creating illustrations for a special edition of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. Yet Chloe is disturbed—by the aggression of her government’s foreign policy, by the poacher who roams the land behind her studio punctuating her solitude with rifle fire, and finally, by Toby’s new girlfriend, a Croatian refugee named Salome Drago.(...)
Sombras en el corazónThe author in this interview to El Comercio says that:
María José Rosete
Maghenta Editorial
ISBN: 84-935-197-6-6
288 pag
En algunos apellidos y nombres homenajeo a 'Jane Eyre', un libro imprescindible y al que, en ocasiones, vuelvo para releer párrafos concretos. In some surnames and names I pay a tribute to Jane Eyre, a must-read book, to which I sometimes return to reread given paragraphs.Certainly. As you can see in this synopsis one of the main characters is called Simeón Rovester.
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.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.
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.
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.
Utställningen "Mad woman in the attic" (Galna kvinnor på vinden) är en litterär metafor för Charlotte Brontës klassiska roman "Jane Eyre" från 1847. Metaforen associerar till hur kreativa kvinnor kunde betraktas som galna eller opassande och också som metafor för kvinnors styrka, ilska eller sexualitet som hölls tillbaka i det patriarkala samhället. Här träffar vi de båda konstnärerna på "vinden" och utställningen är uppbyggd som en vindsmiljö där man hittar saker efterhand. Saker som verkar glömda sedan länge. (Bengt Valentinsson)The exhibition has used the 'madwoman in the attic' metaphor to include a collection of women's art.
El grueso de la película se rodará en Inglaterra. Confirma al deseo de la productora, se buscarán parajes similares a los utilizados en el clásico Cumbres borrascosas. Los interiores se rodarán en Barcelona. Se baraja un presupuesto "modesto" de unos tres millones de euros y, fiel a la trayectoria de esta productora nacida seis años atrás, será una coproducción internacional entre España y el Reino Unido. El rodaje podría comenzar en septiembre del 2008 y el estreno, un año después. (Lourdes Durán)Most of the film will be shot in England, where the novel is set. They want places like those 'used in the classic novel Wuthering Heights'. Shooting will start in September 2008 and the film will probably open a year after that.
-La suya es una novela gótica. ¿A lo «Jane Eyre» o «Cumbres borrascosas»?When asked whether this is a gothic novel à la Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights she says that the novel's main goal is entertainment, both for her when she wrote it and for the reader. It's a mystery novel set in the USA. Some cousins spend the summer at their grandfather's and then...
-Sobre todo se trata de una novela de entretenimiento, una historia que escribí para divertirme y con la intención de que quien la leyera también se divierta. Se trata de una historia criminal llena de misterio. La historia se desarrolla en los Estados Unidos, unos primos pasan un verano en casa de su abuelo y entonces... No voy a contar nada más, ¿no le parece? (S. Fernández)
The owner of a major Hebden Bridge tourist attraction is taking her business out of Calderdale because of parking restrictions.The Guardian has an article on Diederick Santer, producer of Jane Eyre 2006 and current producer of classic soap opera EastEnders.
Sharon Pickard, 54, is the owner of Bronte Boats, which brings 18,000 visitors to the town every year.
She put her life savings into setting up the canal cruise firm in 2005, but says this year the coaches that bring in her customers have been banned from parking in Hebden Bridge centre.
Ms Pickard, of Sowerby Bridge, claims this has made business impossible and is taking her thriving tourist attraction to Leeds. (Joe Shute)
This is PJ Harvey's Bronte sisters album, a set of chilling ballads sung by a woman locked away in the attic in Jane Eyre or lost out on the moor in the middle of the night in Wuthering Heights. (Dan DeLuca)From Casket of Dreams:
Harvey appears to have mutated now into a Bronte, as her album cover proves: her strange, manly beauty is reminiscent of Charlotte Gainsbourg in Jane Eyre, and the profile shot reminds me of portraits of Emily. That’s why the 33 version of White Chalk seems to show her hand: it’s the nasty dream submerged under the record, the lover mutating into the beloved, destroying herself in the process. It’s Jane becoming Rochester; Cathy becoming Heathcliff; alienated, lonely woman becoming demonic Byronic man.Categories: Art-Exhibitions, Books, In the News, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Music, Wuthering Heights
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