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Sunday, March 29, 2020

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Cherwell reviews the film Portrait de la jeune fille en feu:
However, though the film may have profound things to say about art and the roles of women, Portrait of a Lady on Fire excels in the poignancy and universality of the love story at its centre. Motifs from the gothic genre – a solitary woman arrives at a geographically isolated house with a history of death (Héloïse’s sister died in an apparent suicide) and mysterious residents, and experiences an all-consuming forbidden love affair – remind the viewer of Rebecca or the work of the Brontë sisters and grant the film and its central romance a sense of grim foreboding. (Clementine Scott)
National Review publishes an article about John Ford's The Quiet Man:
There is quite a lot packed in that brief scene. Her assertion “I can, I will, I do,” reminiscent of Jane Eyre’s “I am a free human being with an independent will,” then her admission of weakness, that he has the physical advantage, followed by his remark that she has another, more mysterious, advantage. (Madeleine Kearns)
The wonders of Yorkshire by Alastair Humphreys in The Sunday Times:
I paused to admire the William Wilberforce statue here, as I did elsewhere in Yorkshire at the monuments to Captain Cook, the Brontës, Guy Fawkes and Fred Trueman (“t’ finest bloody fast bowler that ever drew breath”).
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution loves tea:
I thought about Alice and her proper ways with tea when I cracked open “Jane Eyre” for the first time in high school. When 10-year-old, maltreated Jane is sent to Lowood, a charity school for orphaned girls, the benevolent superintendent, Miss Temple, takes pity on her and the sick Helen Burns by inviting the deprived girls to her room for tea. Jane recalls: “How pretty, to my eyes, did the china cups and bright teapot look, placed on the little round table near the fire! How fragrant was the steam of the beverage, and the scent of the toast!”Bah. The trio had to split one measly slice of toast. And, a few pages later, Helen Burns dies. (Ligaya Figueras)
More websites give tips for reading in the quarantine:
Emily Lefroy – 9Honey Writer
"I'm going to re-read the Harry Potter series, it's a comfort read for sure, and reread the classics as well – it's the perfect time to get up to date with the Brontë sisters! (Maddison Leatch in Nine.com)
 "Jane Eyre," by Charlotte Brontë: An orphaned young governess, a love affair with brooding Mr. Rochester, a secret crazed wife locked in the attic – what's not to love? (Megan McCarthy in USA Today)
Jane Eyre“ von Charlotte Brontë: Geister auf dem Dachboden sind nicht immer Geister, vielleicht sollte man das überprüfen, bevor man seinen Chef heiratet. (Maike Schiller and Holger True in Hamburger Abendblatt) (Translation)
Cumbres borrascosas, de Emily Bronte. “Es una novela romántica, que para mí se debe leer como una novela de fantasmas. Es un libro que tiene la virtud de envolverte en un mundo muy lejano y hacerte volar en un dramón conmovedor”. (Elsa Drucaroff in Télam) (Translation)
Glass Town: The Imaginary World Of The Brontës (Abrams)
Isabel Greenberg is a cartoonist fascinated by storytelling and how it shapes both individuals and the world. Her latest graphic novel continues exploring this theme through the lens of historical fiction, imagining the circumstances surrounding the development and destruction of the fantasy world the young Brontë siblings created after the sudden deaths of their older sisters. Greenberg pulls Glass Town and its characters directly from the Brontës’ juvenilia, giving readers a look into the early creativity of an iconic literary family with a playful visual style that captures the Brontës’ enthusiasm as they discover what fiction can do. Glass Town is also a character study of Charlotte Brontë, the last surviving sibling, and Greenberg frames the story with conversations between Charlotte and Charles Wellesley, her primary character in Glass Town. Through Charlotte, Greenberg delves into the dangers of losing yourself in an escapist world. Fictional characters become obsessions that threaten Charlotte’s relationships with her siblings, and in order to be a better sister, she needs to bring herself back to reality. Variations on the characters introduced in Glass Town would reappear in the novels that made the Brontë sisters famous, and this graphic novel inventively weaves the fictional narratives of the young siblings with their own family drama to show how both elements inform their later works. (Oliver Sava in AV Club)
Wuthering Heights. Love can be destructive if passion is the only aspect taking control in a relationship. This short novel explores just that with two love stories; one story is tragic and one story ends happily. With the two love stories, you see the differences that made each one turn out that way. The book can make you think about what love is and how it should be treated in a romantic relationship. (Christopher Molek in Worldatlas)
or films:
Jane Eyre 2011
Vakker, sanselig og observant filmatisering av Charlotte Brontës elskede roman, Med ypperlig spilt av Mia Wasikowska og Michael Fassbender. (Inger Merete Hobbelstad in Dagbladet) (Translation)
Self-quarantine in a family could be challenging as La Depeche (France) explores:
Le couple est un continent qui regorge perpétuellement de terra incognita et qui, depuis toujours, inspire la littérature, le cinéma ou la télévision. De Titus et Bérénice à Rhett Butler et Scarlett O’Hara, de Colin et Chlo à Jane Eyre et Edouard Rochester, de Bonny and Clyde à un Gars une fille, d’Harold et Maud à Scène de ménages. (Philippe Rioux) (Translation)
or dating according to 10 Daily:
Alongside this, as popular memes have described -- it might be the end of the world we once knew, so what about those of us that never found love? Nothing like a last-ditch attempt to discover our Heathcliff. Although he’ll be less likely to be wondering the moors, and more likely to be sitting at home watching re-runs of Friends and eating two-minute noodles. (Lisa Portolan)
Rolling Stone (France) interviews the author Anne Simon:
Vos principales influences ?
J’aime les récits tragiques et cruels, comme les sœurs Brontë ou les romans naturalistes de Zola… Avec tout de même un peu d’espoir et des personnages forts. Côté BD, j’ai découvert Julie Doucet à la fin des années 90. Elle se raconte sans filtre, ses dessins et mises en page sont à tomber. Je n’avais jamais rien lu de tel. De Jérôme Bosch à Sophie Calle, mes goûts éclectiques ont tous un dénominateur commun : raconter des histoires et réveiller l’imaginaire. C’est ça qui m’intéresse. (Translation)
Dod Magazine reviews the latest album of the band Triángulo de Amor bizarro:
Otros temas destacables son Calígula 2025, que narra la historia de un don nadie que quiere convertirse en un dictador y Folía de las Apariciones; de temática romántica e inspirada en Cumbres Borrascosas que recoge las armonías de las folías ibéricas. Aquí, la propia Isa se presenta a si misma como un fantasma en busca de su vivo amado “Soy yo, Isa, quien te espera / ¿No hay nadie ahí que funda mi alma / enterrada en tu memoria / y me lleve al trono vacío / donde estabas tú?” (Pablo García) (Translation)
El Sol de Tampico (México) reviews Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo:
Se le ha querido encontrar influencia a la prosa de Rulfo con los grandes escritores como Faulkner, Prost, Joyce o Kafka; sin embargo, el apego a las supersticiones, a los mitos de aparecidos, a los veneros populares y a las descripciones marcadamente locales de paisajes fantasmales, hacen que la literatura rulfiana se acerque más a los autores nórdicos como Lagerlöff, Ramuz, Bjornson, Hamsun e, inclusive, con la Emily Brönte de Cumbres Borrascosas, en el tratamiento del amor fou –tan atrayente para los surrealistas franceses-. (Juan José González Mejía) (Translation)
InfoLibre (Spain) has a point when it says
Nadie, por tanto, va a leer a Stevenson, Balzac, Baroja, Dostoievski, Galdós o Dickens porque otro le haya recordado la idoneidad de los días largos para leer libros largos. Puede que ocurra en algún caso o dos, no lo niego, pero la norma más bien parece sugerir que esos libros tienen su modo peculiar de atraer a sus lectores: hay quien los encuentra en los estantes de la biblioteca paterna, o en un mercadillo callejero –donde las colecciones populares de clásicos de la literatura universal se liquidan por unos céntimos el ejemplar–, o en la escuela, o en un comentario afortunado hecho por una persona a la que se admira –mi hija leyó Cien años de soledad a una edad muy temprana porque la cantante Shakira dijo en una entrevista que era su libro favorito, y muchos jóvenes usuarios de la biblioteca escolar de la que me ocupo pidieron en ella en su día la novela Cumbres borrascosas de Emily Brontë porque era la favorita de no sé qué personaje de la saga Crepúsculo–. No, aquí la autoridad del lector reconocido cuenta poco y más bien puede resultar contraproducente. Esos otros azares tienen más fuerza. (José Manuel Benítez Ariza) (Translation)
AgoraVox (France) looks at Wuthering Heights... in a different way:
C’est la lecture récente d’un livre qui a éclairé ma lanterne. Emilie Brontë – Les Hauts de Hurlevent.
Dans cette histoire, les heures de coucher et de lever sont régulièrement spécifiées. On constate que les personnages sont très matinaux : la maison s’anime dès 4 heures du matin. Et pourtant il s’agit du récit de familles bourgeoises, pas d'éleveurs astreints à leurs bêtes ! (Tellurix) (Translation)
Keighley News reports that the Brontë Parsonage Museum car park will remain closed to help slow the spread of coronavirus. Ara, La Vanguardia, Diari de Girona and El Nacional (Spain) recommends the Teatre Lliure's Jane Eyre adaptation that can be seen this weekend on Youtube (Sunday, 18 h). Collyers Literary Group posts a review of Wuthering Heights.

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