tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post6266641028489248865..comments2024-03-28T19:56:32.848-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `An Admirable Physiognomy'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-49167888581429234712015-11-03T07:19:42.427-06:002015-11-03T07:19:42.427-06:00Synchronicity - Eca de Queiros is also the suggest...Synchronicity - Eca de Queiros is also the suggestion of Mr Kurp.zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-82013692836515371092015-11-02T15:31:48.243-06:002015-11-02T15:31:48.243-06:00Try Portugal, zmkc, and Eca de Queiros - you won&#...Try Portugal, zmkc, and Eca de Queiros - you won't be sorry...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-85151449723943800762015-11-01T16:58:19.797-06:002015-11-01T16:58:19.797-06:00Surely in 1888 "cute" still used to mean...Surely in 1888 "cute" still used to mean "acute, clever"? OED seems to suggest even in US the "pretty" meaning didn't come in till later. Eliot is so wise & perceptive, at least in the great novel, Middlemarch, & James was too (& , I would argue to a lesser extent, Tolstoy). Nevertheless, I feel uncomfortable to have Flaubert left out of truly outstanding 19th century group, not to mention Dickens, whose approach to the novel was very different, I recognise, from that of Eliot or James. Then, much as I detest him, I have to ask, "What about Dostoevsky?", plus Turgenev (although, to my shame, he bores me, I'm sure one day will be the right day for me & him) & Gogol, who paved the way, in many respects for much 20th century fiction, I think. Hardy deserves to be in the pantheon too, in my view, as well as Balzac & Stendhal - again, while they seem dull to me a lot of the time, I recognise they are worth great respect. How odd - I've just realised I have no one to offer from<br />Italy. zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.com