The astonishing sound of Magyar
Having just returned from Budapest, I was happy to rediscover this galloping description of the way it can sound to...
Well-chiselled politeness
I'm all for politeness and things being well-chiselled, but this is a chilling form - impeccable yet indifferent as to...
Tear-wringing phrases
Can you sense in this triologism that the moving eloquence of this politician is a little too practised and contrived?...
Chain of consequences
Grossman's novel deals with a man who returns to 'normal' life after 30 years in the gulag. Here he shows...
Slow words emerging
A halting mode of speech, the words slow-emerging, like the tearing of pages from a long-closed book. That is how Dante's...
Learning as lift off
WritingRedux celebrates language that is alive and pulsating. Â It celebrates the joys and rewards of reading and writing. Â What...
Wrung from the soul
Maggie Tulliver is a deep-feeling woman of painful sincerity, and here words are wrung from her, with a wrenching simile.
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Say what you ought
A laughing summary of a lady's capacity to say the right thing at the right moment, just what she ought,...
To charm, to change …
Odysseus is a tricky hero, part noble, upstanding and brave, part slippery, trickery, too-clever-by-half. He is a compelling orator, and...
Slow-striking clock
Mr Poyser is a kind farmer, and as he takes very seriously his duty to speak on behalf of the...
A chattering cataract
Carson McCullers captures, or creates, an astonishing spectrum of nuance in how people communicate, with voices, faces, bodies.
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Summary impatience
I liked this sharp injunction to Dante to hurry up and spit it out. You can imagine an impatient parent...
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