Fiction | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:16:00 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg Fiction | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 THE BLUE BEDSPREAD by RAJ KAMAL JHA https://anitamathias.com/2010/09/28/the-blue-bedspread-by-raj-kamal-jha/ Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:16:00 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/2010/09/28/the-blue-bedspread-by-raj-kamal-jha/ THE BLUE BEDSPREAD by RAJ KAMAL JHAA very quick read, in an experimental minimalist style, mining the territory opened up by Arundhati Roy–incest and familial sexual abuse. Do these things really happen in India? I remember the shock I felt as an 18 year old when a maid working for one of the leading and […]

The post THE BLUE BEDSPREAD by RAJ KAMAL JHA first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> Captain Corelli’s Mandolin https://anitamathias.com/2010/09/12/captain-corellis-mandolin-2/ Sun, 12 Sep 2010 21:50:00 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/2010/09/12/captain-corellis-mandolin-2/ Captain Corelli’s Mandolin It’s so much easier and quicker to watch the movie than read the book I land up watching the film version of many books I have wanted to read. I enjoyed Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, the movie. I knew nothing of the German massacre of the Italian troops, or the Italian occupation of […]

The post Captain Corelli’s Mandolin first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> Thinking of “Madame Bovary,” by Gustave Flaubert. https://anitamathias.com/2010/08/06/thinking-of-madame-bovary-by-gustave-flaubert-2/ Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:16:00 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/2010/08/06/thinking-of-madame-bovary-by-gustave-flaubert-2/ Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert. I read “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant today, http://thegoodbooksblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/necklace-by-guy-de-maupassant.html very sad though brilliantly constructed, and it reminded me of Madame Bovary. “Madame Bovary” is exquisite, it is perfection, and it is also exquisitely painful. I do not think I will ever read it again. It is so perfectly rendered a work of […]

The post Thinking of “Madame Bovary,” by Gustave Flaubert. first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant https://anitamathias.com/2010/08/06/the-necklace-by-guy-de-maupassant/ https://anitamathias.com/2010/08/06/the-necklace-by-guy-de-maupassant/#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:09:00 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/2010/08/06/the-necklace-by-guy-de-maupassant/ Here’s another perfectly constructed, economical, heart-breaking story my father had told me as a teen, and which I’ve just read for myself  this week.                         Guy de Maupassant                              The Necklace She […]

The post The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2010/08/06/the-necklace-by-guy-de-maupassant/feed/ 1 The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry https://anitamathias.com/2010/08/05/the-gift-of-the-magi-by-o-henry-2/ Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:00:00 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/2010/08/05/the-gift-of-the-magi-by-o-henry-2/                                                        THE GIFT OF THE MAGI                                                […]

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