I’ve gone through Iphigénie en Tauride twice without a break, and now I’m ready to start listening to each of the acts in greater detail. I don’t know if it’s the recording I’ve chosen, or if I’m just in the right frame of mind, but I’m really enjoying the work. I suppose I can understand [...]
January 23, 2009
A piece of ingenuity plain and simple
I mentioned in my last post that I wanted to provide a brief synopsis of James’s “Turn of the Screw,” and so here, in greatly reduced form, are what seem to me to be the main events of the story.
In an old house on Christmas Eve, a man named Douglas tells of his sister’s governess, [...]
