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Jun 4, 2017 · In a rare case of text versus screen, Ondaatje’s book stands in its unique splendour while Minghella’s film blazes in its own light. Previous entries in this series have analysed Maurice and ...
Sep 27, 2021 · Alamy. (Credit: Alamy) It became fashionable to mock The English Patient but, 25 years on, we need it more than ever. Anna Smith re-visits the film in all its lavish, sweeping glory. Every now and ...
Jan 20, 2016 · The movie version foregrounds high drama: betrayals, lovers smashing things, hearts on fire. Gone are the homey “habits of the other” and the “new light” of revelation. And in the movie, lovers, not sentences, are nervous and tender. The lovers stand front and center; the book’s larger meditations--on Other, knowledge, language—are ...
Nov 22, 1996 · It is told with the sweep and visual richness of a film by David Lean, with an attention to fragments of memory that evoke feelings even before we understand what they mean. The “present” action takes place in Italy, during the last days of World War II. A horribly burned man, the “English patient” of the title, is part of a hospital ...
The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje. The book follows four dissimilar people brought together at an Italian villa during the Italian Campaign of the Second World War. The four main characters consist of: an unrecognizably burned man — the eponymous patient who is presumed to be English; his Canadian Army nurse; a Sikh ...
- Michael Ondaatje
- 1992
The English Patient By JANET MASLIN. hristmas in Cairo, 1938: an exquisite sequence in "The English Patient," one of so many in this fiercely romantic, mesmerizing tour de force. In the courtyard of the British Embassy, soldiers sit at tables baking in the sun while a bagpipe plays "Silent Night." The heat is overwhelming.
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Jun 8, 2018 · In 1992, Judith Grossman reviewed Ondaatje’s most celebrated book, “The English Patient,” noting the Canadian writer’s “distinctive, eloquent voice.”. Below is an excerpt. “The ...
