Hola jorge! What an amazing analysis! This book(in italian)has been sitting on my shelf for years but now, thanks to you, its time has come to be read. The only 2 books I have read are "a sorrow beyond dreams" or "infelicità senza desideri" and "il pomeriggio di uno scrittore", both in italian. This will be the first time that I'll read handke in english because I have just found on amazon the same edition as yours at 4,91 euro. Thanks for being an inexhaustible source of inspiration. I miss you during this period of pseudo-vacation. Have a gorgeous day, my friend. And see you in the next video.
Hola, Marinella!! 😃 Thank you so much for stopping by and for your kind words! I'm so happy to hear you enjoyed the video, and that you found a copy of this novella in English at a good price. Please let me know what you think of it. I wonder how Handke reads in Italian (or in Spanish, for that matter). I've read him only in English. I look forward to reading A Sorrow Beyond Dreams. Have a fantastic weekend, my friend, and happy reading!
Hi Jorge,I have long been an admirer of Peter Handke,particularly his novellas,I would recommend Across and The Afternoon of a Writer which display his spare,evocative style to good effect.I am an admirer of Wenders' film although I always thought it was an original screenplay rather than an adaptation of a novel he wrote which I now must read.You also mention The Left Handed Woman of which Handke himself directed a film adaptation in 1978 and it was excellent.Thanks for this informative discussion and have a great weekend.
Hello, Richard! Thank you so much for stopping by and for the recommendations! 😃 I hope you enjoy The Goalie's Anxiety. Please let me know what you think of it. I will look for the film adaptation of The Left-Handed Woman, as I would love to experience Handke as a filmmaker. Thanks again, my friend, and have a fantastic weekend!
Excellent video. I just discovered your channel and any channel reviewing Handke is an automatic subcribe. He has been one of my favorites since the late 80s. I will second the recommendation of Afternoon of a Writer (my favorite) and also recommend Absence (whichwas made into an impossible to find in the U.S. film directed by Handke). Whichever Handke you read next, you will be pleased. I am looking forward to spending some time going through your videos. Any channel with reviews of Handke, Claude Simon, and Groundhog Day derserves my attention.
Thank you so much for watching and commenting, my friend, and for your kind words! 😃 I will definitely look for Afternoon of a Writer and Absence. I'd like to share my thoughts on A Moment of True Feeling and A Sorrow Beyond Dreams at some point, and of course, to come back to Claude Simon. Groundhog Day is a masterpiece! I recently discovered Stranger Than Fiction, which may have some themes in common with it. Thanks again, and have an amazing day!
Many thanks for this excellent review. I wonder what's the meaning of being uncertain about whether one has been fired or not. Maybe this reflects how this person makes decisions based on clues, knowing by experience that gestures may pretend to have one intention while secretly hiding the actual aim.
Thank you so much for watching and commenting, Leandro! 😃 You are absolutely right in your interpretation of Bloch and his perception of the world. Those seconds before the player kicks the ball must be eternal. Have a wonderful weekend, my friend, and happy reading!
Hi Jorge I came across your channel randomly : I was looking for an analysis of this novel by Peter Handke, after I read it. I had a look on your other videos and I am looking forward to watching them, this is a channel I wish I found sooner ! I am curious, have you ever read Georges Bernanos, the French writer ? I think you would love it (I you haven't already read him). Regards from France 😊
Hello, my friend! 😃 Welcome to Jorge's Corner! I love France. 🇫🇷 I have put together a podcast with my videos on French literature. There will be more to come soon! You know, I've been wanting to read Georges Bernanos ever since I watched Bresson's Journal d'un curé de campagne and Mouchette. I will check out his work soon. Thank you so much for watching and commenting, and for the recommendation. Have a wonderful day, and happy reading!
Breakdown of language (like unemployment, crime) as an all-too-human crisis or anxiety (not an 'abnormal' chemical mental breakdown) as also seen in Sartre´s racine may be partly solved by Auster's detectives
Yes! I like texts that remind us how much of our experience is based on language, so I'm glad Handke made it clear that he wasn't exactly portraying mental illness. I need to read more by Auster. I believe I've read only the first two novels of the New York Trilogy. Thanks again for watching and commenting, Dan! Happy reading! 😃
Indeed a very interesting title and discussion by you (the latter as usual) 🙏🏽. I have read two works by Handke, both quite recently, mainly because I wanted to try something by him to see why he won the Nobel (which was obfuscated a lot by non-book reasons, totally understandable but difficult to gauge literary merit from). One book was Moravian Nights which was huh? for me, didn't get it. The other was A Sorrow Beyond Dreams which was very tragic given it is based on related events. A similar extremely short work I read a week back or so and which I found perfect is Memory (Un Secret) by Phillipe Grimbert. The original title is much more true to the story. It was perfectly crafted and again, devastating given it is based on real events. Also read Knife, Rushdie's memoir about the attack. Brilliant initial part, then peters down a bit near the end but still very good. Read his essay collection from the 2003-2020 period titled Languages of Truth, interesting stuff. I'm thinking of returning to some Latin American literature but poetry this time. Your videos on Neruda and Mistral were great, but somehow I want to try Paz first. Let's see. I have read Borges' Selected Poems which has the Spanish and English translations side by side, it was good but not wow for me. Paz' Labyrinths of Solitude intrigues me maybe because it has elements from two well-known Latin American titans (at least in the Anglophone world) in the title - Labyrinths (Borges) and Solitude (Garcia Marquez). Rushdie writes about the tremendous influence One Hundred Years of Solitude had on him in his essay collection (the other book he venerated similarly is The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass). I've read the book but it wasn't for me, maybe I will try again some day. Its not the translation since Gregory Rabassa was hailed by GGM himself for it. Who knows why I couldn't "get" it - probably my brain's permanent struggle with magical realism or even surrealism. 🤣 I DNF Tin Drum too because I wasn't understanding anything. 🙈 Apologies for rambling! Happy reading and look forward to more of your videos, they are great.
Thank you so much, Paromita, for your amazing insight, reflections, kind words, and recommendations!! 😃 Definitely go for Octavio Paz. As you know, he is a Nobel laureate, and you know what that means: video coming up, hopefully soon! You have reminded me that I need to read Rushdie. I will start with Midnight's Children, of course, but I don't know when it will happen. I plan to read A Sorrow Beyond Dreams soon, as it is a short read, and I feel it's better to experience more of an author's work while one is still in touch with the style. Have a wonderful weekend, my friend!
@@JorgesCorner I read a collection titled The Poems of Octavio Paz, published by New Directions, translated mainly by Eliot Weinberger. It didn't contain Labyrinths of Solitude but otherwise covered his entire career. My feeling was that there was a definite evolution in the language and beautiful imagery but somehow, the poems washed over me without leaving an impact. Maybe my deficiency as a reader or Paz is not the poet for me or not the right timing? Who knows. My favourite Laureate poets of the ones I have sampled so far are Tomas Tranströmer (2011 winner) and Wislawa Szymborska (1996 winner). Both have collections out in English and they were really beautiful to me. I prefer Rushdie's non-fiction (his memoirs) to his fiction but that is just me. I read Victory City and found it a nice book, also easy to get into. Midnight's Children I'm afraid I tried and gave up on. That was one of the indicators that magical realism is not for me. With One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Marquez I can say I don't know the history of Colombia, same for Terra Nostra by Fuentes and Mexico or perhaps Spain. But I am from India and we studied the history in school, plus I have an interest in our history. Still Midnight's Children eluded me. 🤣 Have you ever been on the World Literature Forums? They have nice speculation threads and other informative threads about the nominees etc. One does not need to have an account to browse, I just have the forum bookmarked and browse posts, found Tranströmer that way. This year I think we might be looking at a female winner (unless they break trend) and the names that are popping up so far are Anne Carson, Can Xue, Lyudmila Ulitskaya to name a few. Margaret Atwood remains a perennial but who knows if she will get it. Personally I would find it funny if they went totally off the predictions (like they did with Dylan in 2016) and gave it to someone like Alan Moore (graphic novels) who might not even show up. Or Thomas Pynchon finally - does he exist? 🤣 Oh one more interesting topic which I found on reddit and World Literature Forum - authors who should have won but didn't? I'll agree with two names that came up on both sites: Jorge Luis Borges and Vladimir Nabokov. Who would you name if you had to?
We have the same Octavio Paz book, my friend! 😃 I've yet to read it. The thing with that book is that it begins where the one that I read in Spanish (Libertad bajo palabra) ends. Maybe his early poetry is more satisfying, but I'm not sure. I'll definitely talk about this. The Labyrinth of Solitude is an essay, so it I believe it is available only as a separate volume. Tranströmer and Szymborska, I love them! I'm also a big fan of Vicente Aleixandre, St.-John Perse, and the two Greek poets who won the Nobel: Odysseas Elytis and George Seferis. I will keep that in mind regarding Rushdie. I think something similar might be the case for me with Elias Canetti: the fiction (just one novel, in any case) vs. the memoirs. I would be very surprised if Atwood won the Nobel, as they awarded it to Alice Munro a few years ago. (I love Munro, by the way!) But I guess after Bob Dylan anything can happen, right? One could say Vargas Llosa was a surprise too, after García Márquez. Or even Annie Ernaux after Patrick Modiano. But you're right: Pynchon would be interesting, haha. My personal choice from US literature would be Don DeLillo. Borges and Nabokov, yes. They were nominated multiple times too. Some also mention Tolstoy, but that would have been a stretch given some of his ideas. Pérez Galdós... Cormac McCarthy... Tarjei Vesaas... I'm a big fan of Tennessee Williams, and I know he was nominated, but somehow I can't see it, you know. Those are just a few names that come to mind. Thanks again for your wonderful comments, Paromita! Happy reading!!
I read the novel long back and watched the Wim Wenders movie .. Thank you for the deep analysis and reminding .. I always wondered how such a sensitive writer ended up an apologist for the Holocaust.. what is your take on it, may I ask...?
Thank you so much for watching and commenting, Fazal! 😃 I would definitely describe Handke as a sensitive writer, I agree. I know that he is controversial as a public figure, but I am not familiar with his politics or his statements. I tend to focus on the work itself. But it is true that sometimes the author as a person can be quite a letdown, and this is particularly disappointing when the work/art is quite good. Have a wonderful weekend, my friend!
Hola jorge! What an amazing analysis! This book(in italian)has been sitting on my shelf for years but now, thanks to you, its time has come to be read. The only 2 books I have read are "a sorrow beyond dreams" or "infelicità senza desideri" and "il pomeriggio di uno scrittore", both in italian. This will be the first time that I'll read handke in english because I have just found on amazon the same edition as yours at 4,91 euro. Thanks for being an inexhaustible source of inspiration. I miss you during this period of pseudo-vacation. Have a gorgeous day, my friend. And see you in the next video.
Hola, Marinella!! 😃 Thank you so much for stopping by and for your kind words! I'm so happy to hear you enjoyed the video, and that you found a copy of this novella in English at a good price. Please let me know what you think of it. I wonder how Handke reads in Italian (or in Spanish, for that matter). I've read him only in English. I look forward to reading A Sorrow Beyond Dreams. Have a fantastic weekend, my friend, and happy reading!
Hi Jorge,I have long been an admirer of Peter Handke,particularly his novellas,I would recommend Across and The Afternoon of a Writer which display his spare,evocative style to good effect.I am an admirer of Wenders' film although I always thought it was an original screenplay rather than an adaptation of a novel he wrote which I now must read.You also mention The Left Handed Woman of which Handke himself directed a film adaptation in 1978 and it was excellent.Thanks for this informative discussion and have a great weekend.
Hello, Richard! Thank you so much for stopping by and for the recommendations! 😃 I hope you enjoy The Goalie's Anxiety. Please let me know what you think of it. I will look for the film adaptation of The Left-Handed Woman, as I would love to experience Handke as a filmmaker. Thanks again, my friend, and have a fantastic weekend!
Excellent video. I just discovered your channel and any channel reviewing Handke is an automatic subcribe. He has been one of my favorites since the late 80s. I will second the recommendation of Afternoon of a Writer (my favorite) and also recommend Absence (whichwas made into an impossible to find in the U.S. film directed by Handke). Whichever Handke you read next, you will be pleased. I am looking forward to spending some time going through your videos. Any channel with reviews of Handke, Claude Simon, and Groundhog Day derserves my attention.
Thank you so much for watching and commenting, my friend, and for your kind words! 😃 I will definitely look for Afternoon of a Writer and Absence. I'd like to share my thoughts on A Moment of True Feeling and A Sorrow Beyond Dreams at some point, and of course, to come back to Claude Simon. Groundhog Day is a masterpiece! I recently discovered Stranger Than Fiction, which may have some themes in common with it. Thanks again, and have an amazing day!
Many thanks for this excellent review. I wonder what's the meaning of being uncertain about whether one has been fired or not. Maybe this reflects how this person makes decisions based on clues, knowing by experience that gestures may pretend to have one intention while secretly hiding the actual aim.
Thank you so much for watching and commenting, Leandro! 😃 You are absolutely right in your interpretation of Bloch and his perception of the world. Those seconds before the player kicks the ball must be eternal. Have a wonderful weekend, my friend, and happy reading!
Hi Jorge I came across your channel randomly : I was looking for an analysis of this novel by Peter Handke, after I read it.
I had a look on your other videos and I am looking forward to watching them, this is a channel I wish I found sooner !
I am curious, have you ever read Georges Bernanos, the French writer ? I think you would love it (I you haven't already read him). Regards from France 😊
Hello, my friend! 😃 Welcome to Jorge's Corner! I love France. 🇫🇷 I have put together a podcast with my videos on French literature. There will be more to come soon! You know, I've been wanting to read Georges Bernanos ever since I watched Bresson's Journal d'un curé de campagne and Mouchette. I will check out his work soon. Thank you so much for watching and commenting, and for the recommendation. Have a wonderful day, and happy reading!
You should definitely read the novel Journal d’un curé de campagne then ! It’s wonderful, truly.
Thanks to you for this channel ! It’s a gem 🤩
Thank you so much for your kind words! 😃 I will make Journal d’un curé de campagne a priority when I explore Bernanos' work!
Breakdown of language (like unemployment, crime) as an all-too-human crisis or anxiety (not an 'abnormal' chemical mental breakdown) as also seen in Sartre´s racine may be partly solved by Auster's detectives
Yes! I like texts that remind us how much of our experience is based on language, so I'm glad Handke made it clear that he wasn't exactly portraying mental illness. I need to read more by Auster. I believe I've read only the first two novels of the New York Trilogy. Thanks again for watching and commenting, Dan! Happy reading! 😃
Indeed a very interesting title and discussion by you (the latter as usual) 🙏🏽.
I have read two works by Handke, both quite recently, mainly because I wanted to try something by him to see why he won the Nobel (which was obfuscated a lot by non-book reasons, totally understandable but difficult to gauge literary merit from). One book was Moravian Nights which was huh? for me, didn't get it. The other was A Sorrow Beyond Dreams which was very tragic given it is based on related events.
A similar extremely short work I read a week back or so and which I found perfect is Memory (Un Secret) by Phillipe Grimbert. The original title is much more true to the story. It was perfectly crafted and again, devastating given it is based on real events.
Also read Knife, Rushdie's memoir about the attack. Brilliant initial part, then peters down a bit near the end but still very good. Read his essay collection from the 2003-2020 period titled Languages of Truth, interesting stuff.
I'm thinking of returning to some Latin American literature but poetry this time. Your videos on Neruda and Mistral were great, but somehow I want to try Paz first. Let's see. I have read Borges' Selected Poems which has the Spanish and English translations side by side, it was good but not wow for me. Paz' Labyrinths of Solitude intrigues me maybe because it has elements from two well-known Latin American titans (at least in the Anglophone world) in the title - Labyrinths (Borges) and Solitude (Garcia Marquez).
Rushdie writes about the tremendous influence One Hundred Years of Solitude had on him in his essay collection (the other book he venerated similarly is The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass). I've read the book but it wasn't for me, maybe I will try again some day. Its not the translation since Gregory Rabassa was hailed by GGM himself for it. Who knows why I couldn't "get" it - probably my brain's permanent struggle with magical realism or even surrealism. 🤣 I DNF Tin Drum too because I wasn't understanding anything. 🙈
Apologies for rambling! Happy reading and look forward to more of your videos, they are great.
Thank you so much, Paromita, for your amazing insight, reflections, kind words, and recommendations!! 😃 Definitely go for Octavio Paz. As you know, he is a Nobel laureate, and you know what that means: video coming up, hopefully soon! You have reminded me that I need to read Rushdie. I will start with Midnight's Children, of course, but I don't know when it will happen. I plan to read A Sorrow Beyond Dreams soon, as it is a short read, and I feel it's better to experience more of an author's work while one is still in touch with the style. Have a wonderful weekend, my friend!
@@JorgesCorner I read a collection titled The Poems of Octavio Paz, published by New Directions, translated mainly by Eliot Weinberger. It didn't contain Labyrinths of Solitude but otherwise covered his entire career. My feeling was that there was a definite evolution in the language and beautiful imagery but somehow, the poems washed over me without leaving an impact. Maybe my deficiency as a reader or Paz is not the poet for me or not the right timing? Who knows.
My favourite Laureate poets of the ones I have sampled so far are Tomas Tranströmer (2011 winner) and Wislawa Szymborska (1996 winner). Both have collections out in English and they were really beautiful to me.
I prefer Rushdie's non-fiction (his memoirs) to his fiction but that is just me. I read Victory City and found it a nice book, also easy to get into. Midnight's Children I'm afraid I tried and gave up on. That was one of the indicators that magical realism is not for me. With One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Marquez I can say I don't know the history of Colombia, same for Terra Nostra by Fuentes and Mexico or perhaps Spain. But I am from India and we studied the history in school, plus I have an interest in our history. Still Midnight's Children eluded me. 🤣
Have you ever been on the World Literature Forums? They have nice speculation threads and other informative threads about the nominees etc. One does not need to have an account to browse, I just have the forum bookmarked and browse posts, found Tranströmer that way.
This year I think we might be looking at a female winner (unless they break trend) and the names that are popping up so far are Anne Carson, Can Xue, Lyudmila Ulitskaya to name a few. Margaret Atwood remains a perennial but who knows if she will get it. Personally I would find it funny if they went totally off the predictions (like they did with Dylan in 2016) and gave it to someone like Alan Moore (graphic novels) who might not even show up. Or Thomas Pynchon finally - does he exist? 🤣
Oh one more interesting topic which I found on reddit and World Literature Forum - authors who should have won but didn't? I'll agree with two names that came up on both sites: Jorge Luis Borges and Vladimir Nabokov. Who would you name if you had to?
We have the same Octavio Paz book, my friend! 😃 I've yet to read it. The thing with that book is that it begins where the one that I read in Spanish (Libertad bajo palabra) ends. Maybe his early poetry is more satisfying, but I'm not sure. I'll definitely talk about this. The Labyrinth of Solitude is an essay, so it I believe it is available only as a separate volume.
Tranströmer and Szymborska, I love them! I'm also a big fan of Vicente Aleixandre, St.-John Perse, and the two Greek poets who won the Nobel: Odysseas Elytis and George Seferis.
I will keep that in mind regarding Rushdie. I think something similar might be the case for me with Elias Canetti: the fiction (just one novel, in any case) vs. the memoirs.
I would be very surprised if Atwood won the Nobel, as they awarded it to Alice Munro a few years ago. (I love Munro, by the way!) But I guess after Bob Dylan anything can happen, right? One could say Vargas Llosa was a surprise too, after García Márquez. Or even Annie Ernaux after Patrick Modiano. But you're right: Pynchon would be interesting, haha. My personal choice from US literature would be Don DeLillo.
Borges and Nabokov, yes. They were nominated multiple times too. Some also mention Tolstoy, but that would have been a stretch given some of his ideas. Pérez Galdós... Cormac McCarthy... Tarjei Vesaas... I'm a big fan of Tennessee Williams, and I know he was nominated, but somehow I can't see it, you know. Those are just a few names that come to mind.
Thanks again for your wonderful comments, Paromita! Happy reading!!
I read the novel long back and watched the Wim Wenders movie .. Thank you for the deep analysis and reminding .. I always wondered how such a sensitive writer ended up an apologist for the Holocaust.. what is your take on it, may I ask...?
Thank you so much for watching and commenting, Fazal! 😃 I would definitely describe Handke as a sensitive writer, I agree. I know that he is controversial as a public figure, but I am not familiar with his politics or his statements. I tend to focus on the work itself. But it is true that sometimes the author as a person can be quite a letdown, and this is particularly disappointing when the work/art is quite good. Have a wonderful weekend, my friend!
GReat, the ineffable-ness of feeling in Language.
the absurdity itself.
yet there is nothing without it.
said the Linguist.
Exactly, my friend! 😃 Thank you so much for watching and commenting, and have an excellent day!