I was visiting family this weekend and wanted to solve something that has been bothering me ever since reading A Naked Singularity by Sergio De La Pava. In Chapter 20 Casi travels to Atmore, Alabama to interview his client on death row. Casi stays at an outlandish theme hotel called The Orchard: My big break […]
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Leopoldo Alas’ Wikipedia entry In addition to La Regenta Leopoldo Alas only finished one other novel (His Only Son, which I plan to read soon) but wrote more than 80 short stories. I hope the short stories are some of the untranslated works Margaret Jull Costa will be working on in the near future. Alas’ […]
Statue of Ana Ozores, (La Regenta) Located in the plaza of the Cathedral of San Salvador, Oviedo, Spain Picture source This post will be a scattershot introduction to La Regenta, one of the best 19th-century novels I’ve read. Since its release, La Regenta has had its share of misrepresentation. Alas was initially accused of plagiarizing […]
Berkeley, G., Beckett, S., Keaton, B., Schneider, A., Rosset, B., Evergreen Theatre, Inc., & Applause Video Productions. (1997). Film. New York, NY: Applause. Samuel Beckett’s only venture into the medium of the cinema, it was written in 1963 and filmed in New York in the summer of 1964, directed by Alan Schneider and featuring Buster […]
I continue with my erratic foreign movie posts for this year as well as posting on movies adapted from books (as usual, this post will look at the differences between the film adaptation and the novel). For more foreign movies, check out Caroline’s World Cinema Series 2012 and Richard’s blog. Add this movie to the […]
I was unplugged for a few days–I highly recommend it. Sometimes it’s fun just to have fun. I’ll be unplugged again this coming weekend (although with a much lower fun factor). Subjects for posts I have planned to write: The Desert of the Tartars movie Film, 20-minute feature by Samuel Beckett, starring (if that’s the […]
It turns out this wasn’t the latest Sue Grafton mystery, although it does sound scary. I just discovered AbeBooks’ Weird Book Room –if you need a laugh today, you could do worse. Although you’ll have to stand behind me for Whose Bottom is This?: A Lift-the-flap Book.
The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati Translation by Stuart C. Hood Introduction by Tim Parks Canongate Books Ltd. (2007); paperback ISBN: 978-1841959283I have had this in my to be read pile for a while but Miguel’s post at St. Orberose on Jorge Luis Borges’ “personal library” recommendations pushed me to open it the other evening. […]
I finally finished listening to How to Live, or A life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer and thoroughly enjoyed it. A mix of Montaigne’s biography and review of his works, it made my commute much more pleasurable. Now the only question is what version of the Essays to start […]
Work threw me a knuckleball this week, but hopefully I’ll be back to semi-regular posting in the next few days (offset by some travel days). So expect some posts on The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati and the screen adaptation The Desert of the Tartars (both highly recommended). I still have some ways to go […]