by Guy Riegert
Emma Bovary cierra el trio de grandes adúlteras con las que he tenido el placer de pasar un montón de horas, dado que los tres libros son auténticas armas de guerra que emplearé si un día tengo que enfrentarme con zombis en plan la escena de Shaun of the Dead en que se ponen a debatir precisamente q...
Moira posted a terrific review of Rabbit Redux the other day, and it made me realise something I should have noticed years ago. Rabbit Angstrom is Emma Bovary's literary grandson! As Moira says, Updike was deeply influenced by Nabokov, a fact that had somehow passed me by. Nabokov, in his turn, was ...
One of the main things that's been going through my head repeatedly as I read is trying to figure out just what nineteenth-century audiences found so shocking about this novel: at first, in 2009, "shocking" is almost as surprising an adjective to apply to this as to Manet's painting Lola de Valence...
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