Title: Madame Du Deffand and the Idiots
Author: Javier Marias
Type: Non-Fiction
Page Count/Review Word Count: 58
Rating: 4/5
Javier Marias – Madame Du Deffand and the Idiots
You might not guess it from the title, but this is basically a series of little essays on different authors including Vladimir Nabokov, Oscar Wilde and Emily Bronte. It’s just delightful.
Javier Marias
Title: The Skeleton’s Holiday
Author: Leonora Carrington
Type: Fiction
Page Count/Review Word Count: 58
Rating: 4*/5
Leonora Carrington – The Skeleton’s Holiday
This was delightful, the literary equivalent of psychedelia. The blurb describes Carrington as “one of the leading lights of the Surrealist movement” and this reflects that. I liked it and want to read more of her stuff.
Leonora Carrington
