The Duchess and I hit the sales at the Globe bookstore today while in town. Woot.
For starters, we found a two dollar copy of Petronius's Satyricon . Petronius was Nero's 'Tutor in Refinement', so this should be anything but dull reading. I'm trying to catch up on a lot of the Romans I overlooked along the way -- last year was Catullus and Ovid.
I also found Jean Cocteau's 1929 novella Les Enfants Terribles . Happily, I like his writing a lot more than his singing. About halfway through the book, I'm seeing more and more parallels with Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers. In both you have overly close French siblings, suicidal tendencies, an elaborately constructed interior world, and an intrusive outsider. I'm curious to see if the parallels extend to the finale.
Posted by Discoshaman at février 3, 2005 12:05 AM | TrackBack
Speaking of "The Dreamers," have you in your neck of the woods come across its source material, the novel by Gilbert(?) Adair? In an English translation?
I've looked for the novel stateside and can only find it in the hundred dollar range. I wonder if that means it's never been relased in the U.S.
Will be praying for Tennyson.