Thursday’s Special: Breaking Free

Jane Eyre In 1847 using the pen name of Currer Bell, Charlotte Brontë published one of the most influential novels in English literature which she entitled Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. It is an important book about growing up i.e. a “Bildungsroman”, but also a Gothic novel, a romance and a social commentary. It is a novel that many consider to be ahead of its time given Brontë’s views…

SUNDAY POST: Windows to Knowledge

As a student I dreamed of studying on French Sorbonne, but it never happened. Many years later (as in this May)  I had a chance to see it for the first time. I took some crappy photos that I had to over-process to give them soul, but somehow they seemed perfect for Jake’s new theme: Window. If you look closely at the photos, you’ll…

SUNDAY POST: Collectibles

This photo should have turned out differently in my head, but something was against me today, and my obsessive nature told me to wait no longer and after all the effort (obsessing), and thought I had put into it I had to publish it. So, here it is – a photo of my most treasured collectibles – books, that have made me company my whole…

Weekly Photo Challenge: UNFOCUSED

Honesty, I am not in favour of this week’s theme. I am only learning photography and don’t own equipment suited for experimental shots, and naturally I discard all blurred and out of focus pics. This one was taken on purpose with this challenge in mind. I chose the subject of a blurred text as I remembered studying for my university exams years ago. This…

Timbuktu by Paul Auster (another book review)

Using omniscient third-person narrative voice but through a point of view of a dog Auster gives us an account of a personal tragedy of a dying vagabond schizophrenic poet Willy G. Christmas and his only friend and confidant Mr Bones, his old faithful. The novella opens with Willy’s imminent death and a struggle to find his old schoolteacher to entrust her with his writing…

The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster

My reading year started a bit late this year, but March brought me a great surprise in the form of Paul Auster’s Book of Illusions, his best work according to some critics. A novel addresses existential issues and questions of identity, failure which comes from the individual’s uncertainty about the status of his own identity, and the work as a proof of one’s existence….