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Below isSummer of 85director Francois Ozons list.
I was thrilled by the idea of passionate love.
Its a very English novel, very gothic, whereas French Romanticism is more rooted in disillusion.
We had a big library in our home, and my parents let me read whatever I wanted.
But I was mainly excited by the books, like this one, tucked away on the highest shelves.
In contrast toWuthering Heights, this is Romanticism in the French style.
Neither of them is as concerned with story as they are with feelings, sensations.
My mother suggested I read this when I was a teenager.
I remember crying as I read the book.
I was destroyed by that.
Angelis the only book Ive ever adapted into a movie.
Its very funny, very clever, but I now think I should have made it in French.
Its such a pleasure to read his descriptions of feelings, of characters.
Its like a Bible for people who love literature and probably impossible to adapt as a movie.
I readLolitaas a teenager and would love to reread it from the perspective of these times.
Is it a novel in favor of pedophilia or against pedophilia?
I think its very ambiguous, not least because the reader is in Humbert Humberts head.
That kind of ambiguity would make it impossible to publish today.
This is a book I turn to when I am stuck or lost.
As with Proust, there is always something to learn.
I found it in my mothers library.
All of Mishimas books are exotic for Occidental people; theyre very Japanese.
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