Recounted amid the jumble

Today, 173 years after the death of Emily Brontë, we begin our daily newsround with The Herald highlighting the film The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society where

Winsome Lily James is author Juliet Ashton, who has published one book under her own name (a Brontë biography which sold 25 copies) and many thousands more as Izzy Bickerstaff. (Barry Didock)

The Canberra Times recommends Caroline Taggart's Book Lover's Bucket List because

All the famous associations are there. The London house where Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield, P.G. Wodehouses's Jeeves and Wooster's Mayfair, William Wordsworth's Dove Cottage, Lord Byron's Newstead Abbey, Bram Stoker's Whitby, the Brontë Parsonage in Haworth, Evelyn Waugh's Castle Howard, Walter Scott's Abbotsford, Beatrix Potter's Hill Top in the Lake District, Shakespeare's Stratford, and Jane Austen's Chawton, Bath and Lyme Regis. (Colin Steele)

And The Sunday Times briefly anticipates the arrival next February of Emma Rice's Wuthering Heights to London:

Emily Brontë’s family saga on the Yorkshire moors is given a bold treatment by the director Emma Rice. There is every quirk in the book: crazy props, exaggerated storm scenes, fey humour. Brontë’s turbulent tale is recounted amid the jumble, and a youthful cast hurls itself into the fray. (Quentin Letts)

Texas Public Radio remembers Anne Rice replaying an interview where she said:

I mean, you use your imagination when you write. I mean, one of the greatest books I've ever read is "Anna Karenina." And it is an absolutely magnificent novel, and the women in that novel are treated with all the dignity and all the depth that the men are treated with, and it was written by a man.

I mean, the imagination is what interests me, and when I'm sitting at that computer and writing my books, I go into these characters and I become them. I think the idea that we should limit ourselves to our own experience in our writing is sterile and ludicrous. I mean, what did the Brontë sisters know of the world? But thank God they wrote "Wuthering Heights" and "Jane Eyre." They gave us Heathcliff and Mr. Rochester. (Terry Gross)

The Telegraph reviews the anthology Hollow Palaces edited by Kevin Gardner and John Greening;

The book’s architecture is solid: there are charmingly opinionated, gossipy biographies, not only for each poet (George Barker’s “output was impressive, as was his love-life”) but also for each house. You may have read TS Eliot’s “Burnt Norton”, but do you know how Norton got burnt? I didn’t. It’s a tale with the Gothic melodrama of Wuthering Heights; lack of space prevents me from telling it here. (Tristram Fane Saunders)

Red Pepper lists the best books of 2021:

Tell Me I’m Worthless, Alison Rumfitt (Cipher)
The haunted house genre has often been used as a way to talk about class, place, womanhood and madness – themes which reoccur here in a distinctly modern form. A queer/trans haunted house novel set in contemporary Brighton that wrestles with fascism, transmisogyny, trauma – while being consistently wry, smart, and insightful – Tell Me I’m Worthless makes an ideal gift for fans of Daphne du Maurier, Sarah Waters and the Brontës. Perfect for dark, gloomy days curled up on the sofa.

The Critic is tired of new readings of classic books:

Even more direct inspiration need not prevent a work from being important in its own right. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Wide Sargasso Sea elevated minor characters from classic literature to the status of protagonists and became two of the more significant literary accomplishments of the latter half of the 20th century. (Ben Sixsmith)

The Glasgow Guardian seems to argue that literature should only treat what is usual and normal:

In general, the handling of romance in novels is debatable at best, but there is an overarching theme of love as an obsession. It’s romantic for you to care only about your love interest and nothing else, and in real life that would be downright creepy. From the pioneers themselves, Romeo and Juliet and their suicide-pact after knowing each other for three days, to Catherine haunting the supposed love of her life and refusing to give him peace in Wuthering Heights, to Gatsby’s whole life revolving around throwing extravagant parties just so he can see the married Daisy, this idea of “I can’t live without you” has permeated literature forever, and honestly it’s really weird. Of course, grieving a deceased partner is an important topic, but if someone in my life was acting like any of these fictional characters I’d think they were in some kind of creepy love cult. (Dorota Dziki)

Infobae (Argentina) lists a top ten of  the most read classic books on Leamos.com:

Cumbres borrascosas, de Emily Brontë. Aunque vilipendiada en su día («Salimos de la lectura de esta novela como si acabáramos de visitar un hospital de apestados», diría un crítico norteamericano en marzo de 1848), Cumbres Borrascosas (1847) se ha convertido en la gran novela romántica por excelencia, o, aún más, en un mito moderno que ha inspirado películas, óperas, secuelas y canciones pop. Sin embargo, tanto sus extremos y su ansia de sobrepasar todos los límites, por un lado, como su sofisticada construcción narrativa, por otro, parecen escapar a cualquier clasificación genérica. La única novela de Emily Brontë –«árida y nudosa como la raíz del brezo», según su hermana Charlotte– bebe sin duda de la fascinación por el género gótico: hay en ella apariciones, noches sin luna, confinamientos desesperados y crueldad sin medida. Pero la tensión y la incertidumbre que imprime a sus atormentados personajes y su tortuosa trama superan toda convención y nos sumergen en una atmósfera de pesadilla que difícilmente volveremos a encontrar en la historia de la literatura. El amor, en esta novela, no es de este mundo. La traducción de Carmen Martin Gaite, ya un clásico en nuestras letras, permite respirar, palpar esa intensidad y esa locura. (Translation)

La Repubblica (Italy) interviews the writer Daina Opolskaite:

"Ho sempre letto molto, sin da bambina", ci racconta l'autrice direttamente dalla Lituania, "ho amato la letteratura inglese: Charlotte Brontë, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf. (Ilaria Zaffino) (Translation)

The teen author Ana Dragomir recommends novels in Kudika (Romania) :

„La Răscruce de Vânturi” de Emily Brontë. Este una dintre cele mai complexe si interesante lecturi pe care le-am citit vreodată. (Translation)

ABC (Spain) interviews the goalkeeper of the Female Spain Handball team, Merche Castellanos:

Para antes de dormir estos días, unas páginas de ‘Cumbres Borrascosas’, y a preparar el siguiente choque. (Laura Marta) (Translation)

El Colombiano (Colombia) makes a reference to a film by the recently-deceased Mexican singer Vicente Fernández:

En un principio fue la voz: a veces seda –la de Perdóname, del álbum inicial La voz que usted esperaba (1967) –; en otras, reclamo –la de Tu camino y el mío, de Palabra de rey (1968)–. Luego imagen y movimiento: las películas Tacos al carbón (1972), El hijo del Pueblo (1974) y la consagratoria La ley del monte (1976), hasta cierto punto reescritura en clave revolucionaria de Cumbres borrascosas. (Ángel Castaño) (Translation)

Charlie-Hebdo (France) reviews La terre tourne et la flamme vacille by  Louis-René Des Forêts:

Lorsqu’on ouvre ce coffre – et croyez-moi, on ne cesse de le rouvrir, ébloui –, on est comblé par une multitude de visions oniriques, enfantines, terribles, sans équivalent dans l’histoire de l’art, où des paysages tempétueux font souffler une apocalypse sur des jeunes gens qui semblent sortis de La Nuit du chasseur ou des Hauts de Hurlevent [.] (Yannick Haenel) (Translation)

Some Writing posts a Jane Eyre revisitation, Spill the Tea.