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Monday, July 15, 2019

The Daily Mail recommends audiobooks for your holidays, like
If you want... a much‑loved classic
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë.
Narrated by Thandie Newton (£36.69, or free with 30-day trial, audible.co.uk).
There is nothing like the voice of a modern, glamorous star to give a classic a contemporary feel.
Thandie's performance of this cherished classic makes you hear Brontë's words afresh, however many times you've read them before.
The audiobook also casts Newton in a different light, her voice so soft, smooth and comforting to listen to that it's hard to imagine her as the ruthless killer from Line Of Duty. (Laura Topham)
The Week interviews film director Erin Lee Carr about her favourite books:
Jane Eyre Brontë's classic novel is a bit of a cliché choice, but Jane Eyre is special to me. And while it's very old-fashioned that marriage is what helps Jane overcome her abusive childhood, the story is really about her coming into herself despite those abuses. You can have complicated feelings about her, but she is a survivor.
In The Cut we read a sex story which mentions Villette:
11:00 a.m. I’ve finished one book, and now I’m reading Charlotte Brontë’s Villette. I admire Lucy Snowe, the protagonist. She’s the kind of character who tells a man, “No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould and tilled with manure.”
Gay Star News loved a concert of Florence + The Machine:
A decade ago, I was officially Florence + The Machine’s biggest ‘stan’. Although I don’t think that (problematic) word existed at the time. So, ‘flan’, perhaps?
Certainly, I was a slave for the extreme emotions in her music. For her Kathy (sic) from Wuthering Heights stage-schtick. As such, I caught her live several times. (Jamie Tabberer)
El Telégrafo (Ecuador) interviews the writer Sandra Araya:
¿En quién encontró inspiración?
Cuando uno ve las obras se da cuenta de que hay influencias en ti que estaban dormidas. Para mi primera novela hubo influencia de las hermanas Brontë, Charlotte y Emily. Para El Lobo creo que fue en La Última Niebla de María Luisa Bombal. (Translation)
The Sargasso Sea is the topic of this article in Proceso (México), which mentions Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea:
Pero el mar de los sargazos ha tenido, desde entonces, una transmutación literaria. Por ejemplo, lo encontramos en el título de la novela de Jean Rhys, que es lo que hoy llamaríamos “precuela” de Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë: Ancho mar de los sargazos (1939). En ella, escrita 90 años después de la de Brontë, Rhys hace la historia de la loca prisionera de la casa del patrón Rochester. Se trata de una mujer nacida entre sargazos, en las islas del Caribe, y lo que describe con convicción es la vida a la mitad entre no-ser británica ni tampoco negra de Jamaica. Hasta la han bautizado distinto a como se llama en Jane Eyre (Bertha Mason): Antoinette Cosway. El sargazo le sirve a Rhys para hacer la metáfora de lo que está en medio, lo que no es ni océano ni tierra firme, lo que está vivo pero no enraizado. (Fabrizio Mejía Madrid) (Translation)
Internazionale (Italy) recalls Giacomo Matteoti:
La maggior parte dei volumi della biblioteca sono stati trasferiti a Firenze nel fondo Turati, ma ci sono due librerie grandi che indicano in cosa sia consistita anche l’educazione antifascista di Matteotti: letteratura italiana, ma anche inglese e francese in lingua, diversi testi di economia e società, e poi favole, testi per ragazzi, Peter Pan di James Matthew Barrie, Jane Eyre di Charlotte Brontë, The scarlet pimpernel (La primula rossa) di Emma Orczy in edizione originale, con la copertina appena rovinata.(Christian Raimo) (Translation)
AnneBrontë.org reviews Jane Eyre 1983.

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