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“On Taste”
Edmund Burke 1759 (What does it really mean for an opinion to be “a matter of taste”?) When we say “it’s just a matter of taste”, a bold and negative message lies behind the word “just”. Whether intended or not, the word creates a whiff of denigration. We discredit the thing we’re describing, reducing it […]
First Love
(Первая любовь) Ivan Turgenev 1860 (A young man is thrown into the sweet agony of unrequited love for his beautiful new neighbor.) Woldemar, a young man of sixteen, experiences the whirlwind of love descending on him for the first time, as he becomes acquainted with the beautiful and elegant Zinaida, the daughter of a princess, […]
The Catcher in the Rye
June 7, 2014 / Leave a comment
J. D. Salinger 1951 (He may not know what he wants to be in life, but he sure knows one thing he doesn’t want to be—phony! Unfortunately, the world doesn’t seem to agree with him). Holden Caulfield is a unique and precious personality in literature. Although I surely would not want to be subjected in all my […]
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