Classics – PiyangieJay

February 15, 2024

The Sea, the sea – Iris Murdoch

1978 Booker Prize winner, The Sea, The Sea is my first introduction to the Irish author, Iris Murdoch. To tell the truth, I chose…

January 20, 2024

My literary relationship with Thomas Mann was a strained one. I have read his Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain, and while I appreciate his…

January 12, 2024

Witnessing the death of a loved one is one of the most difficult situations that one can face. The mental agony of such times…

January 12, 2024

Samuel Beckett called his playWaiting for Godot “a tragi-comedy in two acts”. It is because, through his play, he wanted to demonstrate the tragic…

January 12, 2024

Until I came across, Desperate Remedies, I wasn’t aware that Thomas Hardy wrote sensation novels. I have read only a few Hardy novels, and…

November 11, 2023

When it comes to poetry, my interest is centered on the British Romantic era, the only exception being epic poetry. Neruda’s Twenty Love Poems…

November 11, 2023

Charles Dickens is a favourite author of mine. Yet, I haven’t read many short stories written by him. I have read his Christmas short…

November 11, 2023

Virginia Woolf is one of a kind. She doesn’t write traditional stories that we are so used to reading. They are plotless for most…

November 11, 2023

Narcissus and Goldmund is a beautifully written story of two medieval men who search for meaning and truth in life. They meet each other…

November 11, 2023

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh is a cynical satire on the aristocratic and upper-class society. Being a traditionalist, Waugh resented the modern…