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James Joyce’s Ulysses
The last line of Ulysses (1922) is not, in fact, the famous orgasmic affirmation of life and love from Molly Bloom – ‘and yes I said yes I will Yes.’ …
Jun 16
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Dr David Vernon
László Krasznahorkai’s Sátántangó
Something is rotten – very rotten – in a Hungarian hamlet. It never stops raining. The district mill and estate have been closed. The buildings are all…
Jun 11
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Dr David Vernon
Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Fourth Symphony
Mention ‘Vaughan Williams’ and, for many, the images conjured up are of frolicking lambkins, twee vicarages, Morris dancers – and, yes, larks ascending…
Jun 2
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Dr David Vernon
May 2024
Grażyna Bacewicz’s Fourth String Quartet
Intense emotion, furious intellect, fertile imagination and superb technical mastery are the hallmarks of great string quartet cycles, and Grażyna…
May 18
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Dr David Vernon
Clarice Lispector’s Short Stories
Clarice Lispector takes you on dangerous adventures that make you feel you’re reading for the first time. Her novels, stories and countless crônicas (or…
May 5
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Dr David Vernon
April 2024
Kalevi Aho’s Insect Symphony
Many nicknamed symphonies exist both inside and outside the classical canon: Beethoven has the Eroica, Pastoral and Choral; Mozart the Haffner, Prague…
Apr 28
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Dr David Vernon
Gustave Flaubert’s Three Tales
With Gustave Flaubert, we are not short of wonders to explore. There is the immediacy and vibrancy of Madame Bovary (1857) and the astonishing intensity…
Apr 24
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Dr David Vernon
Tōru Takemitsu’s score for Akira Kurosawa’s Ran
We often ask whether film scores can exist independently of their parent movies. Some of them – Jaws, Psycho or The Godfather – take on a life of their…
Apr 21
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Dr David Vernon
Jon Fosse’s Septology
Novels with long sentences are hardly new. Molly Bloom’s great soliloquy at the end of James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922), where she ruminates in the early…
Apr 17
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Dr David Vernon
Ingmar Bergman’s Persona
A famous stage actress, Elisabet Vogler (Liv Ullmann), suddenly stops speaking mid-performance – and stays this way. Doctors cannot determine any…
Apr 14
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Dr David Vernon
Elizabeth Maconchy’s Fifth String Quartet
When someone has written an opera about a man who gets turned into a piece of furniture (The Sofa, 1957, to Ursula Vaughan Williams’s libretto), it…
Apr 10
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Dr David Vernon
Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob
When you initially pick up Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob (2014; magnificently translated by Jennifer Croft in 2021), two things in particular…
Apr 7
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