Anyone who has ever sat in a cafe, or in the bath, with a paperback owes
a debt to Aldus and the small, cleanly designed editions of the secular
classics he called libelli portatiles, or portable little books. (New York Times)
A Tribute to the Printer Aldus Manutius, and the Roots of the Paperback
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Monday, February 23, 2015
WIDE SARGASSO SEA, BY JEAN RHYS
Jean Rhys's reputation was made upon the publication of this passionate and heartbreaking novel, in which she brings into the light one of fiction's most mysterious characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Set in the Caribbean, its heroine is Antoinette Cosway, a sensual and protected young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Rochester. In this best-selling novel, Rhys portrays a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, that it can literally drive a woman out of her mind.
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