Category: Fiction

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…

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is one of the most widely read classical romances. It is also no exaggeration to say that Pride and…

The Glass Bead Game is a phenomenal work. Its complex plot makes the full meaning of the novel unfathomable, but there is a certain…