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How to Read “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”
D.H. Lawrence’s last novel, “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”, is a story of class and forbidden love, filled with explicit scenes of love-making and profane words. But…
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Lolly Willowes – Autumn, Witchcraft, Satan
‘Lolly Willowes’, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Penguin Classics, 2020. First published by Chatto & Windus 1926.
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Jane Eyre – How to Be in Control
When read with intent, Charlotte Brontë’s must-read classic ‘Jane Eyre’ is more than a gothic novel, more than a romantic love story. It is a…
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How ‘Jane Eyre’ Was Published – The Story in Charlotte Brontë’s Letters
That Charlotte Brontë published ‘Jane Eyre’ in 1847 under the name Currer Bell is well-known but what more is there to the story? Let’s see…
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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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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
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