a cambridge theater company is doing an adaptation of Sense and Sensibility and the poster is incredible. I saw it on the T and just had to go find the image to post it for @amarguerite and everyone else whose lives will be enriched by a regency horse on roller skates.
little doodle of Lizzie and Darcy being astonished by the 21st century, which is what I firmly believe happens directly after the ending of Mr. Bennet Travels Through Time by @amarguerite, a delightful fic that everyone ought to read.
But far from being cowed by the titans of literature who created them, Davies reckons he has an opportunity to improve upon their famous works.
“I’m trying to bring out the wonderfulness of what’s in the book,” he said at Cheltenham Literature Festival, “and I’m also, sometimes, trying to camouflage the faults and often write some scenes that I think Tolstoy or Jane Austen should have written which is very cheeky and arrogant but there you go.”
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He added that when it came to War and Peace, “Tolstoy didn’t really manage a satisfactory ending so I had to give him one,” jokingly labelling himself a “boastful bugger”.
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you know when Hugo’s narration comes over all Lemony and he’s like “hey here’s a thing that’s going to End Badly but no one knows it yet, I am telling you, the reader, so you can be prepared” ? Yeah.
NO NO NO NO NO!!!!
There’s a part in the article where he’s like ‘well we only see Mr. Darcy from Elizabeth’s pov and she’s so prejudiced against him that we don’t know he’s a good guy until the end’ and I’m like…that’s the point???? Like the actual point of the novel???? Using a character’s POV to obscure facts is a literary device, not a flaw!! Tons of authors do it!!! Giving it all away at the beginning is BORING!!
I’m so scared for his Les Mis adaptation O.O
I read that and cracked up because he doesn’t seem to even realize that he just namedropped half the title
And I mean I’d be down with him saying “and I thought that kind of approach wouldn’t work as well onscreen” but he’s just like THIS WAS AN ERROR, it makes Elizabeth look too…prejudiced …and maybe Darcy seems too…proud…for …some reason…”
I’m trying to have Hope, I did like his P&P, but every new article just makes me wince >_<
The characters just seem so FLAWED it’s CRAZY that they have to OVERCOME FLAWS in order to actually understand each other? I thinks dramatic tension should come solely from gritty, awful scenes of female misery, not from irony or information being revealed!!!
oh my god this NYT opinion piece about why we shouldn’t be too familiar with Jane Austen because it is Beneath Her Dignity is hilarious for a lot of reasons, but mostly for the breathtakingly confident assertion that we would NEVER call Great Male Authors by their first names or obsess about their personal life.
I just want to take the author by the shoulders like…… buddy. pal. friend. You have never met a fan of Victor Hugo in your life, have you?
#and this isn’t even getting INTO fans of Oscar Wilde or like. god tbh most of the romantics get talked about like old pals#or Conan Doyle Fans. I know I’ve called him ‘Artie’ more than once#things I personally have called Victor Hugo:#(or seen him called)#vicky large#‘vic. buddy. pal.’#victor fucking hugo#’victor WHY’#The Judgeypants#’a drunk old man who wouldn’t shut up for 60 hours straight’#’vic please’#’victor HUGE-O’
can I just say how deeply pleased I am that people are reblogging this with all the pet names they call their favorite authors and historical figures
oh my god this NYT opinion piece about why we shouldn’t be too familiar with Jane Austen because it is Beneath Her Dignity is hilarious for a lot of reasons, but mostly for the breathtakingly confident assertion that we would NEVER call Great Male Authors by their first names or obsess about their personal life.
I just want to take the author by the shoulders like…… buddy. pal. friend. You have never met a fan of Victor Hugo in your life, have you?
A Pretty Taste for Paradox 