Two old friends, novelist Alice and literary editor Eileen, trade long emails about desire, faith, art and a world in crisis while their own love lives with Felix and Simon stumble toward uncertain footing.
Books mentioned in Beautiful World, Where Are You (7)
My Vocation by Natalia Ginzburg: “(epigraph) —Natalia Ginzburg, ‘My Vocation’ (trans. Dick Davis)”
The Golden Bowl by Henry James: “Just remind me that I have an idea for an essay about ‘The Golden Bowl’ that I want to run by you.”
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens: “afterwards I read him a chapter of ‘David Copperfield’ while we lie on the couch”
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: “No, I think at the time I’d just finished reading Anna Karenina.”
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky: “reading a copy of the novel The Karamazov Brothers.”
The Uses of the Erotic by Audre Lorde: “I am attaching a PDF of Audre Lorde’s essay ‘Uses of the Erotic’, which I know for a fact you will greatly enjoy.”
Documents in Mycenaean Greek by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick: “Ventris and the classical scholar and linguist John Chadwick wrote a book together on the translation of the script, entitled ‘Documents in Mycenaean Greek’.”