Monday, January 3, 2022

Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld

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  Tastes change. Fashions change. Presumptions, through whose refracting pris ms each new age interprets its aesthetics, also change, but u...
Monday, December 20, 2021

Light of Evening by Edna O’Brien

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  The Light of Evening by Edna O ’ Brien is a deceptively complex book. It deals with relationships between two women, Dilly and Eleanora, w...
Thursday, December 16, 2021

Swann’s Way – In Search of Lost Time Volume 1 Marcel Proust

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  Imagine a collage, an assemblage of the entire output of august artists, especially those of fin-de-siecle France, those one-time upstarts...

It’s all in the detail – Madama Butterfly in Valencia

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Puccini’s Madame Butterfly is a very well-known, much loved, and indeed popular opera. The genre is replete with femmes fatales , Butterfly,...
Friday, December 10, 2021

The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho

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  The Witch of Portobello is a novel by Paulo Coelho. Perhaps already there is already a divide. There are readers, many of them, for whom t...
Tuesday, December 7, 2021

La Ciudad de las Bestias (The City of Beasts) by Isabel Allende

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  La Ciudad de las Bestias (The City of Beasts) is a novel by Isabel Allende. I read it in Spanish, without consulting reviews or doing any ...
Monday, December 6, 2021

Quichotte by Salman Rushdie

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  I heard an author interviewed on the radio. He described a character he had invented, a fellow called Quichotte (that’s key-shot, by the w...