The mass suicide of Madame Bovary

The mass suicide of Madame Bovary

The story of Emma Bovary, Flaubert’s most popular fictional character, is well known: a girl sick with reading tries to make real life fit the parameters of the romantic novel. In half plus one of the novels with which he contracted his illness, the happy ending is an ending with a wedding. So Emma marries … Read more

Susan Sontag: A Complex Relationship with Women and Literature

Susan Sontag: A Complex Relationship with Women and Literature

Susan Sontag, the great American intellectual of the 20th century, had a complicated relationship with women. She loved women without coming out as a lesbian. She was with star photographer Annie Leibovitz from the late 1980s until her death in 2004, but they didn’t officially know each other. Sontag loved women but preferred to write … Read more

Why Greta Gerwig’s ‘Barbie’ Film is a Must-Watch: A Feminist Twist on a Classic Doll

Why Greta Gerwig’s ‘Barbie’ Film is a Must-Watch: A Feminist Twist on a Classic Doll

“Barbie” film in the cinema: That’s why it’s worth watching the film by Greta Gerwig I’ve never owned a barbie in my life. Neither do my siblings. However, I do not consider this absence to be an educational measure taken by my parents, who did not dismiss anthroposophy; I think I just had no interest … Read more

‘Cartas Vivas’ is growing, the project that recovers the voice of twentieth-century writers

‘Cartas Vivas’ is growing, the project that recovers the voice of twentieth-century writers

“This is the time of hype and bombs. Of automatism versus intelligence, of standardization versus differentiation, of advertising values, of serial thinking, of quantity versus quality. And half of humanity continues to devote itself to the exploitation of the other half. Everything is dehumanized. We live surrounded by countless madmen set up as heroes.” Anyone … Read more