Vasili
This is a description of the Vasili Andreyevich Brekhunov a character in Leo Tolstoy’s ‘Master and Man’ [the description is given by George Saunders] George Saunders concluded his take of … Continue reading Vasili
Tag: reading
Marginalia
Peter’s short films on marginalia [please click on each image to play a different film]
‘Life, loss and the words that have helped’
Last weekend, the Sunday Post shared a review of Richard Holloway’s latest book: The review finished with a poem written by Richard Holloway that concludes his latest book. A poem … Continue reading ‘Life, loss and the words that have helped’
You with the intentness of your studies
From ‘Landscapes’ by John Berger.
He admired those
From ‘The Noise of Time’ by Julian Barnes.
If that is the “professionalism” you refer to, sir
A passage from ‘The Remains of the Day’ by Kazuo Ishiguro.
His moral generosity
This is the Scotland on Sunday Review of Alexander McCall Smith’s latest novel ‘The Pavilion in the Clouds’:
Told with an evident truth as unflinching as it is tender
I recently read Father and Son by the writer and poet Edmund Gosse. This ‘memoir’ was written in 1907 and subtitled ‘a study of two temperaments.’ I was reminded of … Continue reading Told with an evident truth as unflinching as it is tender