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One of Cleopatra’s Nights

November 18, 2014 / Leave a comment

(Une nuit de Cléopâtre) Théophile Gautier 1838 (A young hunter is willing to die to be with queen Cleopatra for just one evening.) Word for word, this little novella (three times the length of a typical short story at about 12,700 words) probably paints the most vibrant description of ancient Egypt in all of literature. […]

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The Romance of Tristan and Iseult

June 2, 2014 / Leave a comment

(Le Roman de Tristan et Iseut) Joseph Bédier 1900 (A knight and a lady pursue their magical love through bloodshed and sorrow.) When tales pass through centuries of retellings, they tend to become what of audio media we would call “overproduced”:  too many interpreters have slanted the story their various ways, too many embellishments and […]

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