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The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf’s First Novel
It’s hard to read Virginia Woolf’s first novel objectively, knowing her later work. I keep looking for the Woolf I know. But she was not…
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Anna Karenina – Life, Lively, Lived
“Life dominates Tolstoy. There is always at the centre of all the brilliant and flashing petals this scorpion ‘Why live?’” (Virginia Woolf, ‘The Russian Point…
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Do Electric Sheep Elicit Empathy?
In Philip K. Dick’s ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ Rick Deckard is convinced he can tell “andys” apart from humans by using an established…
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Creative by AI
In Ian McEwan’s ‘Machines Like Me’ we see what happens when the artificial human is more human than the human.
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Orlando. He Was a Woman.
‘Orlando is the hero who turns into a heroine, in a biography which turns out to be a fiction’ (Hermione Lee, ‘Virginia Woolf’)
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A Woman in a House
Virginia Woolf writes in ‘To the Lighthouse’ about man and woman, the power one holds upon the other, the intimacy which binds them together. But…
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The Quartet of Unity and Dispersion in ‘Between the Acts’
Virginia Woolf’s ‘Between the Acts’ could be read and imagined as a play. But what does this say about its characters, who are plain to…
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The Other Women in the Tapestry of ‘Mrs. Dalloway’
“Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small”…
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House in the Light of Time
The story of a house that, unlike the Ramsays’ vacation house in ‘To the Lighthouse’, wasn’t lucky enough to have people return to it.
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Here, on leseriana.blog, I share my passion for reading in three different languages.
Romanian, my mother tongue
English, the language I don’t even consider foreign
German, the language of my adoptive country and still very foreign for me
Over three languages, I am here to to connect with fellow readers like you.
