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Joaquim Maria Machado de AssisIt took a while to find things online (in English) about Machado de Assis. While a few of these items are repetitive, I’ll include the links I found interesting: His Wikipedia entry A beautiful site created by the Academia Brasileira de Letras Reading Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, an article from […]
One of the unique marbled pages from Volume III Picture source In which I bid a fond farewell to the Shandy clan. When putting a book back on the bookshelf or returning it to the library I usually don’t consciously think whether I’ll revisit it again. So where does Tristram Shandy fall? “For those who […]
Thomas Patch: Sterne and Death“This is not a digression from it, but the work itself” — Pliny the Younger (epigraph to Volumes VII and VIII) If I have joked too facetiously with anything, by the muses and the graces and all the power of the poets, I beseech thee not to mistake me” — Julius […]
Torturing Machiavelli again Of the few biographies I’ve read in the past decade, Niccolo’s Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli is one of my favorites. However, the above article at The New Yorker provides a lot on his life and a relatively balanced picture of Machiavelli before the predictable ending. Mrs. Woolf and the Servants Mrs. Woolf […]
“Why do we want to spend a year of our lives making this film?” ” ’cause it’s funny.” “Is that all?” “Is that not enough?” Sterne would have undoubtedly said “Yes” as that exchange captures the spirit of his book. The reviews at IMDB and at Amazon.com are mixed, but I think that is the […]