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TN (Argentina) and 24Matins (Spain) talk about the Wuthering Heights-Novelas Eternas fever in Argentina:

Hoy compré revistas en el metro, canta Fito en A rodar mi vida. Un gesto cotidiano de la vida en una ciudad como la que describe, en la que siempre se hace tarde. Y un gesto cotidiano casi en desuso, en una donde cada vez se venden menos diarios y revistas y el bolsillo obliga a desviar el consumo hacia necesidades más urgentes. Es uno de los motivos por los cuales llamó la atención esta semana el protagonismo de canillitas y lectores ávidos por obtener su ejemplar de Cumbres Borrascosas. El libro escrito por Emily Brontë en 1847 fue trending topic en redes de la Argentina 2024.

Y como con las entradas para el show de un artista de moda, agotó en pocas horas su tirada de trece mil ejemplares. Algunos clientes compartieron los chats con sus diareros, que les confirmaban que ya había llegado su ejemplar reservado, para que lo pasara a buscar. Casi una estampa de otros tiempos urbanos. (Mariana Mactas) (Tranlsation)

Un fenómeno literario sorprende en la Argentina de 2024. El clásico de Emily Brontë, Cumbres Borrascosas, se agota en pocas horas, haciendo revivir un gesto cotidiano casi en desuso: comprar libros en el kiosco. Un fenómeno similar se vivió con el primer título de la colección, Orgullo y prejuicio, de Jane Austen. (Translation)

ViaPaís (Argentina) mentions the criticisms that the translation has received from some online trolls,  

Jefferson Public Radio interviews Rocío Mendez,  fight and intimacy director for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival production of Jane Eyre:

Vanessa Finney: I want to pivot now to your other duty this season at OSF, that's intimacy director for Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte's original book is considered one of the first feminist novels. It was published in 1847. And the clip that we have actually gives a glimpse into that literally fierce independence. So here's the marvelous Jenny Greenberry in the starring role. She's trying to fend off the advances of Mr. Rochester, played passionately by Armando McLean. This is from the current production of Jane Eyre at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

[clip of Jane Eyre]

VF: That was a clip from the current OSF production of Jane Eyre directed by Dawn Monique Williams: A different kind of struggle there. So for listeners at home, what's going on physically in the scene? And how did you approach staging it?

RM: What's happening physically in the scene is Jane is essentially torn with Rochester because she's in love, but has found out that he has a wife. So in the scene, she's basically trying to get away from him but doesn't want to. So there's a little bit of a back and forth physically because Jane wants to kind of get out of there, but also wants to stay. She's torn. And essentially, he ends up grabbing her and kind of trying to hold her, and I believe his hands are around her waist and her back is to his chest. And she eventually makes him get off of her. And then towards the end when he asked her to marry him. She says 'Yes!' and they kiss and everyone's so happy. And it's their first kiss in the show, so everybody's been waiting for it.

VF: Yeah, after the marriage proposal! So this is such a different scene that we hear about sometimes in the movie sometimes, where nudity is involved in lovemaking on camera in front of a set - that's its own thorny situation, I think. What was the different challenge for this? Obviously more subtle.

RM: Actually, this can be a little challenging too. So he says his line, 'Stop prancing like a frantic bird,’ or something like that. So when we were first doing it, it was a little bit of a struggle trying to figure out what he meant by that. Does this mean that she's pulling away from an arm? How is she like a frantic bird? How can we physically do what he's describing?

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This is one that will only make sense if you’ve already read Jane Eyre, but it’s honestly one of my favourite modern classics, purely for the interesting angle and social commentary. The story follows Antoinette ‘Bertha’ Mason, the woman who eventually becomes Mr. Rochester’s ‘crazy’ wife that he locks up in the attic in Jane Eyre. But this time, the story is told from her perspective and we take the journey with her as she struggles through life in the colonies before being transported to a strange land in Britain where no one understands her and her new husband is cruel. Although we know her ending we hope for more for her, and this retelling delivers. (Lulu McKenna)

Jane Eyre (2011)
Driven from her past at Thornfield House, young governess Jane Eyre reflects on her youth and the events that led her to the misty moors. A classic for a reason, Jane Eyre is all about staying true to your values and finding freedom from an oppressive patriarchal system.  (Lulu McKenna)

iNews has some things you can do for the upcoming August Bank Holiday: 

A three-day weekend with nothing scheduled offers the perfect opportunity to cosy up with the classic novel that’s been gathering dust on your shelf for years. Helpfully, a nifty tool at omnicalculator.com/everyday-life/reading-time claims to calculate how long it will take you to plough through any book based on the number of your pages and your average reading speed. Feeling ambitious? Alexandre Dumas’ revenge epic The Count of Monte Cristo will take just over 15 hours for an average reader, equating to a snackable five hours of reading per day, while Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights can be devoured in less than four hours, leaving plenty of time to tackle the rest of the Yorkshire sisters’ masterpieces. ( Joanna Whitehead)

The Scotsman reviews My Good Bright Wolf​ by Sarah Moss:

Moss is also astute on reading Jane Eyre and The Bell Jar as a teenager, probably quite the worst time to do so. She draws out the false syllogisms neatly: “Cleverness was unattractive and paying attention to your appearance was stupid. Obviously decent women valued mind over body, intellect over sexuality. By the age of sixteen, you had renounced sexuality for the life of the kind and announced your renunciation with your thinness”. (Stuart Kelly)