germenis: In 1992, Michael Ondaatje published The English Patient, and as far as I’m concerned few other novels within the past thirty or so years comes close to equalling the level of beauty and poetry, sheer sublimity in its documentation of the Human Condition. I’m in love with this grand, ethnically-rich, almost gritty to touch, book. It transcends “book.” It is everything that a book strives to accomplish. And due to its scope, its content and aims, one would struggle to think of how it could be translated to film…but it was. Beautifully, by Anthony Minghella in 1996. And Ralph Fiennes, one of the most talented actors out there, does a fantastic job at portraying the titular character. His pain becomes our own. Ondaatje’s novel is a work of absolute light. 

germenis:

In 1992, Michael Ondaatje published The English Patient, and as far as I’m concerned few other novels within the past thirty or so years comes close to equalling the level of beauty and poetry, sheer sublimity in its documentation of the Human Condition. I’m in love with this grand, ethnically-rich, almost gritty to touch, book. It transcends “book.” It is everything that a book strives to accomplish. And due to its scope, its content and aims, one would struggle to think of how it could be translated to film…but it was. Beautifully, by Anthony Minghella in 1996. And Ralph Fiennes, one of the most talented actors out there, does a fantastic job at portraying the titular character. His pain becomes our own. Ondaatje’s novel is a work of absolute light.