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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.

One Art | Losing is not the end of the world

The poem One Art, part of the collection Geography III (1976), is precisely about the experience of loss that concerns every human being.

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