- Terrestrial Verses follows everyday people from all walks of life as they navigate the cultural, religious, and institutional constraints imposed on them by various social authorities, from school teachers to bureaucrats. These stirring vignettes, humorous and affecting, capture the spirit and determination of people a…
- Behind the barn, Madden is practicing on mastering her high-heeled shoes. In the evening she is expected to take care of her younger siblings. Yearning for a teenage life in town clashes with the obligations at home on the farm in a wonderfully beautiful and sensitive portrayal of a young woman’s contradictory inner wo…
- Albertine is the most controversial character of Recherche du temps perdu, the most mentioned yet the one we know the least about: we do not know where she comes from, what she does for a living, where she ends up… and even when she dies, we wonder if she ever existed at all. Several critics saw in Albertine Proust’s d…