After the rather exhausting day I had, clearly, the French have got it all figured out. But do they? It was hard to stifle my subconscious from peering up from her copy of Jane Eyre (ok, yeah, so I’ve since gone back to reading 50 Shades) and stop her from shouting anti-Parisian stereotypes that pretty much go unaddressed in the book. (Stephanie Ila Silver-Silverstein)50 Shades of Grey is also the subject of this article in The Guardian:
But what makes the triumph of James's book surprising is that a story involving such a succession of overtly kinky sex scenes can conquer the mainstream publishing market. After all, the plot is so singlemindedly titillating that it makes the unconventional "modern" relationships that leaven Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy read like Charlotte Brontë in comparison. (Vanessa Thorpe)Página 12 (Argentina) makes an interesting point about the success of E.L. James's book:
Como sea, la clave del personaje es que hace lo que hace por amor. Anastasia no quiere, no le interesa incursionar en el sadomasoquismo, pero si ése es el precio a pagar a cambio de tener una relación amorosa con Christian Grey, está dispuesta a hacerlo. Por eso se permite experimentar látigos, manos atadas y outfits de cuero negro sin asumir nunca el deseo de hacerlo. De hecho, cuando la cosa empieza a ponerse candente, elige retirarse como su heroína favorita, Jane Eyre, al enterarse de la bigamia de Rochester. Una estrategia inteligente que transforma la elección sadomaso en algo tolerable tanto para el pasado puritano de Estados Unidos como para el presente dubitativo que siguió a la revolución sexual. (Violeta Gorodischer) (Translation)We read on The Telegraph & Argus a letter from another victim of the Haworth clamper.
Bandytha olvas (in Hungarian) posts about Wuthering Heights; Readin' and Dreamin' talks about The Secret of Charlotte Brontë by Syrie James; Sweet Almond Tree reviews Jane Eyre and makes porridge literally; Becky's Book Reviews reviews Jane Eyre 1997; Kulturfrosseri (in Swedish) has visited Haworth; thefairsarah82 has posted on Flickr a couple of Jane Eyre-inspired drawings.
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