Tristana: Buñuel’s Film and Galdós’ Novel: A Case Study in the Relation Between Literature and Film by Colin Partridge (New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1995) In a novel full of ambiguity, Tristana’s lover Horacio is the one certainty. He’s a disappointment. I should expand on that judgment and qualify it where appropriate. Horacio’s early […]
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Tristana: Buñuel’s Film and Galdós’ Novel: A Case Study in the Relation Between Literature and Film by Colin Partridge (New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1995). All quotes are from Partridge’s translation of the text unless otherwise noted. I’m realizing how poorly thought out my approach was on writing about Tristana, but I’m halfway through […]
Tristana: Buñuel’s Film and Galdós’ Novel: A Case Study in the Relation Between Literature and Film by Colin Partridge (New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1995) I had originally planned to have several posts on the main characters of Tristana and then talk about the opposing viewpoints on the novel but I realized that order […]
Happy new year! I’m looking forward to starting 2013 with yet another wonderful novel by Galdós. Tristana: Buñuel’s Film and Galdós’ Novel: A Case Study in the Relation Between Literature and Film by Colin Partridge (New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1995) I was able to obtain this book through an interlibrary loan—good copies are […]
Death of an Athlete by Miklós Mészöly Translated by Tim Wilkinson Liverpool: Bluecoat Press, 2012My earlier post on the novel and author, providing a few links available in English on both. Hildie, the companion of recently deceased track star Bálint Őze, is asked by the State Sports Press to record a memoir about his life. […]
I mentioned in an earlier post that I have a list of most of the characters by Bolesław Prus’ The Doll. I enjoyed the novel quite a bit and hope that others will take the plunge on reading it. Toward that end I’m posting my list of character names. As you can see there are […]
Merry Christmas! A bookish Christmas for me, receiving the annotated version of Some Do Not… and No More Parades. The wife, she notices. These are the books staring at me from various places around the house, although I’m sure I’m missing some. I will try to focus on these in the early part of 2013. […]
Death of an Athlete by Miklós Mészöly Translated by Tim Wilkinson Liverpool: Bluecoat Press, 2012I’m having trouble finding much about Miklós Mészöly in English. Hungarian Literature Online has several posts on the writer and the recent English translation of Death of an Athlete. I’ll have a separate post on the book but wanted to provide […]
Jomar Hønsi, who has been nice enough to comment on posts regarding Jaroslav Hašek, is highlighted (as is his website www.honsi.org) in this interview at Radio Prague. From the interview: And to explain a little bit to people who don’t know Hašek – he had the most extraordinary adventures during the First World War, travelling […]
Whenever children get together in a group there’s usually one kid off playing by himself, aware of the action around him but he seems to be happier focusing on what he’s doing. If someone else joins in, fine. If not, that’s OK, too. That, in a nutshell, seems to be my blog. It doesn’t purposefully […]