'Chilling' WW2 film is a 'brutal masterpiece' now streaming free on Channel 4
'Chilling' WW2 film is a 'brutal masterpiece' now streaming free on Channel 4
Julian Barnes: “Me he vuelto más de izquierdas porque el centro se ha desplazado a la derecha”
True enough. It eventually becomes clear that Mister Amis most ardently admired and loved Miss Austen. But perhaps he hated himself a bit for it.
And his description in those last three lines of the drooping arc of her personal hopes and life are so brutal you want to look away.
Jesus, Martin Amis was a brutal bastard.
"No reader can resist the brazen wishfulness of 'Pride and Prejudice,' but it is clear from internal evidence alone that Austen never fully forgave herself for it. 'Mansfield Park' was her—and our—penance. As her own prospects weakened, dreams of romance paled into the modest hope for respectability. 'Persuasion' was her poem to the second chance. And then came death."
He called her Tiny. She called him Bruno. In this speech from today’s memorial service to the novelist, the legendary magazine editor celebrates her cocky, beguiling and witheringly funny star writer
“La zona d’interesse” e l’orrore quotidiano
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Recensione del film “La zona d’interesse” (2023) di Jonathan Glazer
https://codice-rosso.net/la-zona-dinteresse-e-lorrore-quotidiano/