The drama by Maurice Maeterlinck “Pelléas and Mélisande”, an icon of literary symbolism that aroused the interest of the great composers of the late XIX century, including Fauré, Debussy, Schönberg, Sibelius.
Category: prose
The Green Mile’s Miracle
Stephen King’s novel The Green Mile (1996) once fascinated my teenage consciousness. It had everything a hungry imagination craved: a parable-narrative, the dark atmosphere of the death-row unit at the Cold Mountain Penitentiary, an interesting temporal and geographical context Typical, or archetypal, triad of heroes (there is analogy with the Bible and three crucified people…
Birth of the British Novel
Author of the documentary Birth of the British Novel (2011) – BBC Four – Henry Hitchings explores the lives and works of Britain’s radical and pioneering 18th-century novelists who, in just 80 years, established all the literary genres we recognise today. It was a golden age of creativity led by Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Henry…