Category: Fiction

I always say that Virginia Woolf doesn’t write stories, at least not in the conventional sense we know. She doesn’t have a proper plot….

I’m new to Jorge Luis Borges. The Library of Babel was my first time reading him, and so, my mind was a blank canvas….

Goethe’s Faust is my first reading of a Faustian tale. I’ve been aware of the existence of numerous literary and musical compositions based on…

Jorge Luis Borges is a genius. He weaves fantastic mazes in his short stories and throws the readers into them. The readers, in return,…

Persuasion is a mature work by Jane Austen. It’s also called her best work. After many rereadings, I quite agree. Persuasion is quite different…

Northanger Abbey is a charming story that revolves around a young, innocent, and naive “heroine” (to use Austen’s words), Catherine Morland. True to Austen’s…

The Black Tulip is a brilliant work by Alexander Dumas. I truly don’t understand why this is a lesser-known work of his. In my…

The second reading of Emma pleasantly surprised me. After the initial embarrassment of having underappreciated this amazing work of Austen, I managed to wallow…

The Ladies’ Paradise, the 11th novel of Émile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series, is a story of the coming of the modern age and the rise…

Mansfield Park is a different work from the rest of Jane Austen’s novels. I can say that now I’ve read them all. Jane Austen’s…