“Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” — (Paraphrasing Shakespeare, often echoed in Céline’s tone) Part One: The Doctor’s Descent […]
American literature
As I Lay Dying
“My mother is a fish.” — Vardaman Bundren As I Lay Dying follows the Bundren family’s arduous journey to bury their matriarch, Addie Bundren, in her hometown of […]
American literature
The Sound and the Fury
“I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire… I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now […]
English literature
Mrs Dalloway
“Fear no more the heat o’ the sun, Nor the furious winter’s rages.” — William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (epigraph in Mrs Dalloway) Morning in Westminster Clarissa Dalloway, a high-society […]
English literature
To the Lighthouse
“But what after all is one night? A short space, especially when the darkness dims so soon, and so soon a bird sings, a cock crows, or a […]