The appearance of Joyce’s novels in the literary canon has ensured his novels remain relatively inaccessible to the ordinary reader and raises serious doubts upon his continued deification within the dominant landscape of the Literati.  The fundamental error of regarding “Ulysses†(1922) as a functional notion to categorise his work is not quite equivalent to […]
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Posted in The List on May 29, 2015 | 1 Comment »
Le rouge et le noir by Stendhal
Posted in The List, tagged Film Adaptation, Review, Stendhal on November 5, 2012 | Comments Off on Le rouge et le noir by Stendhal
Stendhal was forty-seven when his first major novel, Le rouge et le noir, was published in 1830 (although a little known and unremarkable book called Armance did precede The Red and The Black).  This tale of the young Julien Sorel, takes some dedication to finish and is best devoured in the original French.  Often cited […]
Le Rivage des Syrtes by Julien Gracq
Posted in The List, tagged Julien Gracq, Le Rivage des Syrtes, Review on August 27, 2012 | Comments Off on Le Rivage des Syrtes by Julien Gracq
A novel set in an imaginary land where a frozen conflict has lasted over the past three centuries. Published in English as the Opposing Shore, this is a tale of a young man Aldo who is sent to a coastal town over-looking the sea and the world of his enemies. There he waits for his […]
The cursed novel adaptation – Eucalyptus by Murray Bail
Posted in The List, tagged Eucalyptus, Film Adaptation, Murray Bail, Review on May 9, 2012 | Comments Off on The cursed novel adaptation – Eucalyptus by Murray Bail
Eucalyptus is a simple novel. The story of a widower who plants hundreds of eucalyptuses as a memorial to his wife. Living with him in this man-made forest, hidden away from prying eyes, is the young daughter (due to be portrayed by Nicole Kidman in a never completed movie).  Over the years, men have tried […]
Spam hell has forced the end of comments
Posted in The List on April 4, 2012 | Comments Off on Spam hell has forced the end of comments
We have turned off the comments feature -Â suffering from a great bombardment of spam, You can send me a comment on FB. Nathaniel.
The English Urban Peasant Revolt of 2011
Posted in The List, tagged London, Peasants Revolt, Riots on August 24, 2011 | Comments Off on The English Urban Peasant Revolt of 2011
I was not intending to write about the recent events in London and other major English cities during August 2011 on this blog, since I was on the other side of the world at the time, and not a first hand witness. However, an anecdote caught my attention in terms of the targets of the […]
Review of The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
Posted in The List, tagged Film Adaptation, Review, Thackeray on August 20, 2011 | Comments Off on Review of The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
A romp through the late 1700’s which takes in a young Irish rogue who ends up in the British Army in Germany for the Seven Years War and then in the pay of the Prussians. He’s adventures keep him away from the UK for eleven years until he finally returns to win the heart of […]
Review of La Jument Verte by Marcel Aymé
Posted in The List, tagged Marcel Aymé, Review on August 19, 2011 | Comments Off on Review of La Jument Verte by Marcel Aymé
Country France in the 19th Century is a world of intrigue where the lives of women and girls are cheap, and paintings of green horses have the ability to make social observations and commentaries. A fine yarn by the pen-master Aymé of the life in the village of Claquebue from the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 […]
Vote result for a great week end read
Posted in The List, tagged Donna Tart, Results, The Secret History on June 8, 2011 | Comments Off on Vote result for a great week end read
It is clear that the novel with the most votes with six votes in total from this web-site and from our Facebook presence is Donna Tartt’s – The Secret History. A good result if you consider the tough competition from the other novels: Marina Lewycka – A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian received four […]