Doña Bárbara (1929) is a novel by Rómulo Gallegos, as widely popular in Venezuela as it is virtually unknown in my country - for all that it is a work of an acknowledged classic and a significant book for its place in Latin American literature ( Read more... )

Unlike most people nowadays, I’ve always been quite indifferent to vampires. If you don’t count my unhealthy fondness of this stillshot with Christopher Lee. :)

To make me interested, vampires must sing and dance. So I’ve listened to some vampire musicals recently. It has been a great surprise to find out that there are four different musicals only ( Read more... )

There could be no films more unlike than Bathory and Hairspray (2007), and those are two I watched one after another. (I’m doing the job of watching my video cassettes when I’m in town.) Perhaps succumbing to the dark charm of the first one eventually let me enjoy the comedy the better!

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From the time I began watching films about Elizabeth I of England, Elizabeth-related things literally started to fall into my hands! There are two new non-fiction books waiting for their turn - perhaps I’ll write about them later. As for now, I’d like to tell you that Good Queen Bess appears in musicals as well as in operas! :)

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Those are songs from the Czech musical Angelika, in the order of appearance on the official CD. I disliked the thing greatly, that's why I will not elaborate on it here... I think. Just the links. :)

2) Já povím to líp
3) Zásnubní terčet
Angelika (Dasha), Contoire (Linda Finková) a Joffrey de Peyrac (Zbyněk Fric) - here
Svatebni tercet
4) Krátká ( Read more... )

For many people, Little Women is the favourite book of childhood. Unfortunately, when I was a child, I never heard of Louisa May Alcott’s book! It was only in my twenties when I learnt about it, thought ‘oh it seems I’ve missed something’, and read Little Women and its sequel, Good Wives. (The plot summary can be found here. To read the book, here. ( Read more... )