Flaubert in Egypt by Gustave Flaubert (kind of)*
Flaubert in Egypt is ostensibly (though it isn’t) a book written by Gustave Flaubert about his hedonistic travels through EgyptContinue Reading
Flaubert in Egypt is ostensibly (though it isn’t) a book written by Gustave Flaubert about his hedonistic travels through EgyptContinue Reading
I have read Kate Zambreno’s Green Girl for my book club, and will now write a review in two parts.Continue Reading
I’ve done that really stupid thing again where I start reading a major writer with a minor work. Borges isContinue Reading
Adam Thirwell is known as a writer of short, punchy, narrator-led novels. Of the two I’ve read, one, Kapow!, IContinue Reading
A classic, yes, I should probably have read it by now… But nineteenth century, French, more than 300 pages –Continue Reading
I found myself a copy of Flaubert’s 1877 short story collection Three Tales in order to read ‘Herodias’, his piece aboutContinue Reading