The Telegraph discusses the concept of UK City of Culture focusing on Bradford in particular.
There are hundreds of events in the calendar to celebrate Bradford’s tenure. David Hockney, arguably the city’s most famous son, is behind a nationwide project to get people drawing (called DRAW!), while new artworks on nearby Penistone Hill are to be inspired by Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. (Liam Kelly)
The Week features Nicci French, crime-writing duo Sean French and Nicci Gerrard, and asks them about their favourite books, one of which is
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë, 1847
This Victorian classic about an unloved orphan growing into a woman who is free, equal and passionately loved is a gothic romance, an erotic masterpiece, a work to read when you’re young, old, and all the ages in between.
Meanwhile in
La vanguardia (Spain), writer Virginia Feito, whose latest work takes many things from Jane Eyre, doesn't have so many good things to say about the novel:
Are psychopaths trendy nowadays?
Yes, and it's trendy to explore and romanticize them a bit. I think of Dexter, You. In the Victorian era, the term didn't exist, villains were villains, and their motives and origins of evil were not explored. In Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White, Count Fosco, one of my favorite villains, is clearly a psychopath for doing what he does, but it wasn't the same. Now, psychopaths are seen as sexy. They're in fashion.
Why?
For a long time it was too morbid and it was not right to dwell on these things, and now we are allowed to enter that territory a bit and assess it. The bad boy has always been in fashion. And our desensitization is growing, little can impact us and it is getting worse. We started with Mr. Rochester from Jane Eyre who had the madwoman in the attic and now we are with people who shoot parents in the face. My mother would say that we are insensitive to so much violence. (Justo Barranco)
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