The Book & the Movie – East of Eden | John Steinbeck (1952) / Elia Kazan (1955)
John Steinbeck, East of Eden, 1952 According to his third and last wife, Elaine, Steinbeck considered it his magnum...
Books
A Note on Van Gogh’s L’Arlésienne | Robert Walser (1912)
L'Arlésienne, L'Arlésienne: Madame Ginoux, or Portrait of Madame Ginoux is the title given to a group of six similar paintings...
I used to go to bed early / Swann’s Way | Marcel Proust
For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my...
A Book is made from a Tree | Carl Sagan, 1980
The Secret Garden by Su Blackwell“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with...
The Book & the Movie: The Night of the Hunter | Davis Grubb, 1953 / Charles Laughton, 1955
Harry Powers was a convicted serial killer who was hanged in Moundsville, West Virginia, in 1932. He lured his victims through...
The Book and the Movie: Mouchette | Georges Bernanos / Robert Bresson, 1966
“ You know that on any other day you’d be pulling faces already. But today your heart’s asleep. Don’t try...
Book//mark – Commentary | Marcelle Sauvageot, 1933
Marcelle Sauvageot, Commentary, 1933 Marcelle Sauvageot, 1933 .... "Does the past become an old thing...
The Book & the Movie: White Nights | Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1848 / Luchino Visconti, 1957
“And was it his destined part Only one moment in his life To be close to your heart? Or was...
The Book and the Movie: Sult / Hunger | Knut Hamsun, 1890 / Henning Carlsen, 1966
“I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around...
The Book and the Movie: Quiet Days in Clichy | Henry Miller, 1956 / Jens Jørgen Thorsen, 1970
"Montmartre is sluggish, lazy, indifferent, somewhat shabby and seedy-looking, not glamorous so much as seductive, not scintillating but glowing with...