I haven't read the book, I just want to say I saw a documentary on French TV focusing on crucial moment in the 20th century, and this one was all about October/November 1956, Hungary and the Suez Crisis. It fascinates me how disparate crises seem to converge temporally -- and I would bet there IS a doctoral dissertation on this!
I'm trying to see the rest of your reading list! Can you share the titles and authors please so I can add them to my own list of reading? I love everything you read and write!
You’ve written - “While there’s brilliant, powerful writing tempering the endemic melodrama throughout, the last line of the English version (no great spoiler, given what I’ve said above) is: "Eyes awash with the depth of his feelings, Husayn said, “This is just the beginning, my love.” Anyone reading this who’s ever studied with me has some idea of what I’d scrawl in the margins there.”
I’m very curious to know what you would scrawl in the margins! I’m wondering if it’s in the general area of it being too on the nose, or overly melodramatic, or something entirely different.
I haven't read the book, I just want to say I saw a documentary on French TV focusing on crucial moment in the 20th century, and this one was all about October/November 1956, Hungary and the Suez Crisis. It fascinates me how disparate crises seem to converge temporally -- and I would bet there IS a doctoral dissertation on this!
I'm trying to see the rest of your reading list! Can you share the titles and authors please so I can add them to my own list of reading? I love everything you read and write!
You’ve written - “While there’s brilliant, powerful writing tempering the endemic melodrama throughout, the last line of the English version (no great spoiler, given what I’ve said above) is: "Eyes awash with the depth of his feelings, Husayn said, “This is just the beginning, my love.” Anyone reading this who’s ever studied with me has some idea of what I’d scrawl in the margins there.”
I’m very curious to know what you would scrawl in the margins! I’m wondering if it’s in the general area of it being too on the nose, or overly melodramatic, or something entirely different.