Dear Monsieur Dumas, It is the year 2010 today, nearly 166 years since you published The Count of Monte Cristo. Your contemporaries recognized it as the accomplishment it is, which is the least we can say for the treasures which have come to us from your period. It makes me immensely happy when a society [...]
French literature
I finally know the timeless story of Madame Bovary. What a remarkable journey to delve into the timeless classics whose names I first heard uttered in adult conversations in my childhood in Iran. The Godfather is such an example. Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables another. Madame Bovary yet another. I read Gustave Flaubert‘s masterpiece in English, [...]
