AS Byatt's "Possession": names etc.

The movie version of Possession falls into my category of major disappointments in media adaptations-- not epic fail as such, but one of those prestige projects with respected directors/actors and good source material whose sum total (imho) didn't live up to any of those parts. (The main other example that comes to mind is Les Miserables with Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, and Claire Danes.)

I was re-reading the book over the weekend and started jotting down notes about the characters' names and various other elements. I'm still mystified about a few names which may either cause me to klonk myself with obviousness when I finally get them, or which I just don't have the requisite familiarity with Victorian literature to pick up (frex, I can't remember whether I've read all of the epic poems associated with the modern leads), but hey.( Read more... )