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Madame Bovary | Emma Bovary teaches how to be a bovarist

Emma Bovary is an example of how a character can be more important than the book itself. She is the forefather of the bovarysme trend.

The Road Not Taken | A hymn to brave choices

The Road Not Taken resembles a fairytale. With an hypnotic rhyme scheme and an old-fashioned writing style, the narrator introduces the reader to a yellow wood, where two roads diverge.

The Waste Land | A influences constellation in an ode to desolation

In 1921, when he was writing Waste Land, Eliot wrote on The Dial about Le Sacre du Printemps, a ballet with music by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. Eliot especially focused on the method of dodecaphonic composition.

You thought I was that type | Akhmatova’s love anathema

Anna Akhmatova's You thought I was that type is the love anathema with which she says goodbye to her second husband Vladimir Silejko.

16 November, 2021

Madame Bovary | Emma Bovary teaches how to be a bovarist

Emma Bovary is an example of how a character can be more important than the book itself. She is the forefather of the bovarysme trend.

13 July, 2021

The Road Not Taken | A hymn to brave choices

The Road Not Taken resembles a fairytale. With an hypnotic rhyme scheme and an old-fashioned writing style, the narrator introduces the reader to a yellow wood, where two roads diverge.

29 June, 2021