Protagonists – Reads A Lot

Unlikable Protagonists and Morality in “The Easy Life” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsDecember 19, 2022 by Megin Jimenez

[ad_1] “If you are squeamish don’t prod the beach rubble” is a line by Sappho* that serves as sound advice for the novels of Marguerite Duras. If you are squeamish, don’t crack the cover. There will be grief, there will be a threat of madness, there will be sensuality mottled with darkness, a family may … Read more

The Allure of Older Protagonists

Book BuzzSeptember 3, 2020 by Jessica Mizzi

[ad_1] When she was about 30, Julian of Norwich got sick and saw God. For about a week she lay in bed, beholding Christ in gory, color-changing agony (“all his blessed face covered at one point in dry blood”), several heavens, and the cosmos contained in a walnut. Not long afterwards—from what historians can tell, … Read more