Yes no problem, it is worth checking out to see it in a different angle (we see the narration through the female characters) but it is nothing on the novel of course.
thanks for the link.. will def check it out
Hi, I don't know if you can get the BBC i-player but there is a dramatisation of Bel Ami on there that you might be interested in if you have the time. Here is the link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...Ami_Episode_1/ Regards, John.
Hi, I am glad you enjoyed it. I can't think of any others off hand, though perhaps Zola is the best place to look? I recently read a couple of novel's by him which were very good, but not of the style of the lazing around in Paris type, perhaps The Kill might be more in that vein http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kill-Oxford-...1707839&sr=8-3 but I have not read this so I wouldn't know. I'll keep you posted if I find any such type and let me know if you do. Regards Neely.
Yo Neely! Yes Bel-Ami was great - thanks for the indirect recommendation. I have a similar taste for novels that capture that 19th century decadence of the Dorian Gray/Old Goriot ilk and books about Paris in general (A Moveable Feast, Down and Out in Paris and London etc) .. so it was a winner on that account but my background is in journalism so it was an amusing satire for me too .. I particularly liked his idea of all the journalists sitting around all day playing cup and ball and then just re-writing old copy (substitute cup and ball for facebook etc and it is not wide of the mark today!).. any other recommendations you have of the French variety will be very much appreciated... cheers Hank (Ben)
Hi, so are you enjoying Bel Ami then, what do you think of it? I don't know, it was just a book that blew me away, it was one of those reads that really sort of connects, if you know what I mean? Since then I have read a few shorts and two other novels from him and they are good, but not up to that sort of level, at least for me, even if they still possess that underlying type of cynicism that all his work seems to do. it was a novel that I recognised elements of Dorian Gray in, which is one of my favourite novels, and an inspiration to me. I also have a silly fancy of French culture, which it also obviously ties into, but even so, I think it is an interesting read. Let me know what you think.
