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Caligula is the story of a superior suicide. It is the story of the most human and the most tragic of errors. Unfaithful to man, loyal to himself, Caligula consents to die for having understood that no one can save himself all alone and that one cannot be free in opposition to other men. i read th...
We saw a poster for this play last week, and when I noticed it on sale next day at a local bookshop I figured I'd buy it. One of those classics I'd somehow never got around to reading. I wondered why I couldn't even recall what the plot was, or what it was called in English.Well, having read it, I'm...
This is such a damn good play, I don't understand why it's so underrated. I think it has just become one of my favourite plays ever. Seeing it performed is a must. Aaaaaand, guess what? The Hungarian Theatre from Cluj is premiering it next month. Yay!
I found Emma Bovary to be a most unsympathetic character. I finished it, but not because I cared what happened
There's a lot of stuff in Volume 2 of A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu, and people see different things in it. To me, though, the unifying theme is a continuation of Proust's analysis of how romantic relationships work, which he started in Un Amour de Swann. There, he examined one particular kind of re...