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W.H. Auden
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Favorite authorsAnna Achmatova, Machado de Assis, Isaac Babel, Beryl Bainbridge, William Blake, Harold Bloom, James Boswell, Elizabeth Bowen, Jane Bowles, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anita Brookner, Italo Calvino, Catullus, Anton Chekhov, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Colette, Barbara Comyns, Lucy Cousins, Emily Dickinson, Marguerite Duras, John Fante, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gustave Flaubert, E. M. Forster, John Fowles, Helen Garner, André Gide, Rumer Godden, Knut Hamsun, William Hazlitt, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Christopher Isherwood, Henry James, Tove Jansson, Samuel Johnson, Jennifer Johnston, Franz Kafka, Molly Keane, John Keats, Anita Loos, Janet Malcolm, Katherine Mansfield, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Penelope Mortimer, Edna O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, Michael Ondaatje, Grace Paley, Dorothy Parker, Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Proust, Barbara Pym, Jean Rhys, Arthur Rimbaud, Theodore Roethke, Christina Rossetti, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Bernice Rubens, Françoise Sagan, Stevie Smith, Muriel Spark, Jean Stafford, Robert Louis Stevenson, Elizabeth Taylor, Marina Tsvetaeva, Denton Welch, Fay Weldon, Eudora Welty, Nathanael West, Edith Wharton, Tennessee Williams, Virginia Woolf, W. B. Yeats (Shared favorites)
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posted by ifindmbr at 6:26 am (EST) on May 31, 2012
Hope you're having a lovely weekend!
Kindly,
Cate
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posted by Cimbrone at 5:43 pm (EST) on Jan 12, 2012
I see you have A Portrait of a Marriage - did you enjoy the mini-series? I loved it, but never thought to seek out the book. Will have to check it out one of these days.
posted by SesameG at 8:21 pm (EST) on Nov 7, 2011
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posted by DeadFred at 8:02 am (EST) on Jun 16, 2011
In any case, The Makioka Sisters has been on my currently reading list for many months and that probably sums up how I feel about the book. It is interesting for its insights into another culture, time and place, but not so terribly interesting otherwise. Let me know what you think.
A book I saw on your profile that I have been longing to read is the Linda Lear bio of Beatrix Potter. I read her bio of Rachel Carson about four years ago and it was engrossing! Carson was a government bureaucrat who never had a love affair, never traveled to exotic places, lived with her mother and her cats and wrote nonfiction in her spare time. How can that make an interesting life? I remember waking every morning, reaching for the book with my morning coffee, totally thrilled and absorbed.
Patsy
posted by PatsyMurray at 8:12 pm (EST) on Jan 28, 2011
I should warn you that I don't actually read the books I post on LibraryThing! LOL! Well, very few of them, anyway. I am always reading, but I use LT to keep track of what I want to read (or think I may want to read) so I won't lose track. So, while thank you for inviting me, I don't think I will join the Virago group because I won't be able to keep up!
I was curious, though, who is the woman in the photograph on your profile page?
Best,
Patsy
posted by PatsyMurray at 8:39 pm (EST) on Jan 27, 2011
Warmest wishes
Julie
posted by juliette07 at 2:51 pm (EST) on Jan 20, 2011
Elaine
posted by Liz1564 at 5:53 pm (EST) on Jan 11, 2011
posted by Kasthu at 5:30 pm (EST) on Aug 2, 2010
I notice one of your books is The Letters of Fanny Brawne to Fanny Keats. Have you read it recently? I just watched Jane Campion's film Bright Star a week ago thru Netflix. Abbie Cornish was excellent in the role of Fanny Brawne. A sweet, sad, and beautiful film.
You might like Barbara Comyns Carr, being an Anglophile. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Comyns_Carr
Peace,
G
posted by Ganeshaka at 2:25 pm (EST) on Apr 17, 2010
I also saw a very exciting modern translation by a young American writer. His version is very likable and has some additional element of positivity so typical for American culture. This might be viewed by some as synthetic layer not present in Chekhov’s own original. This may well be true, but perhaps this American writer is able to reach certain American hearts that would respond to this slightly uplifted tone, who knows. I did like it. But I prefer Constance personally. When I read her version and then read the Russian version, I feel like Chekhov is alive in both his original text and in this English text by Constance. I can see his presence, I see Russia, I see this planet, I see human beings with all their good and bad sides so vividly, so wonderfully. I also see England there and I see how Chekhov appeals to so many hearts in this country. In other words, Constance was clearly very inspired and very passionate, her words are like an extension of Chekhov’s own.
posted by maxbolli at 6:59 pm (EST) on Apr 8, 2010
Yes I am very much a big follower of Chekhov after working with his stories. I am even more excited about his own character and his human nature. He worked as doctor all his life and considered literature in his own words as “my mistress”, medicine being “my lawful wife”. He also treated the poor free of charge and did much other humanitarian work during his very fruitful life. Sometimes it seems to me that he really was a true angel in both literary and figurative meanings of these words. Also, more than anything he really wanted to change the world for the better through his literature. His style is so gentle and subtle however that this does not always ring the bell to some of the less sensitive audiences, so he actually had to say it openly and directly to public that a lot of his literature has satirical nature and is meant to be both funny and at times tragic and at other times educational and motivational. I am ever so happy that my adaptation did provoke these feelings in many listeners. I could not hope for anything better than this.
When it comes to favourite stories, I am glad you mentioned “about love”, this one is very special and is a big favourite of mine. The third CD is planned to have this story there and it will be part of the trilogy which Chekhov always intended to be understood as trilogy, but the publisher back in 19th century made a mistake and separated the 3 stories.
I also have to mention Ivan Matveyich. I have personal reasons here. I actually grew up in the south of Russia, not far from the Black Sea and Ivan’s stories about his tarantulas and birds very much remind me my own childhood. I absolutely loved chasing tiny lizards in the bushes. They are very difficult to catch because they drop their tail and re-grow it naturally and the only way to catch them is inevitably by their tail. The man of learning in this story reminds me many of my often strict teachers. They too would occasionally let me get away with something just like the man of learning let’s Ivan talk about his birds in this story. I felt like couple of pages from my own life merged with something new in this Chekhov story. It’s a magical experience.
posted by maxbolli at 6:02 pm (EST) on Apr 8, 2010
Messpots
posted by messpots at 12:53 am (EST) on Mar 30, 2010