In English, 'La Vie Materielle' by Duras, is translated as 'Practicalities'. Alcohol features strongly in some of her early novels such as 'Moderato Cantabile' & 'The Sailor from Gibraltar', but less so in her later works. Fascinating video. Thanks..
Please keep making these videos if they continue to bring you joy when doing them, as they are so interesting for anyone who enjoy literature and for people who aspire to study it!!
I'm slowly returning to your videos, where i feel safe and identified studies. Inspiring me to persist in my philology and literature course at university! There are still a few years left until completion, the process is always the most beautiful part, a huge and admired kiss, Maria.
I know that your channel is still small, but i hope you know that your content has helped me become emboldened in my academic pursuits of literature and philosophy, which has been particularly difficult as an American who is constantly pressured to study in the utilitarian sense and not for the cultivation of wisdom.
I read this comment a couple of days ago in a somewhat stressful/difficult moment and it somehow really touched me. I'm so happy to hear that, honestly.
The density of the video compels me to analyze the mise en scene of its filmic production: the contrast of the single shot, background covered in shadow, minimal lighting 🎥 It' great to see you expanding your literary repertoire, to hear your thoughts on Simone de Beauvoir. Question: have you given any thoughts to writing a memoir? 😄
If you don’t mind could you make a video about analysing a poem, a piece of literature and taking out ideas from a text. I’m interested to know this, and your way to explain things is “agréable “❤❤❤
I love this, thank you for the video!!! As someone who can't afford more schooling, this is really helpful for guiding my self-studying. Please keep making these types of videos if you can! Love from New York :)
I'm a new subscriber but I so love your videos! Thank you for taking the time to share your reflections & knowledge with us ✨🌟☀️ take it in your pace though, we'll be here whenever you come back from any youtube breaks ♥️
Thank you for making these videos.. Your simplicity shines through and it's infectious. Congratulations on 30K subs. You deserve this. Cheers from India!
Very interesting. This video cemented in me the ideia that you really don't need to go to an uni to learn this type of subjects, but of course they help to be able to enter into the workforce related to this courses. Twenty years ago i was in high school and I loved photography and I wanted to know everything I could about it, so I researched about uni courses in Photography and Visual Media, and what subjects they teach and what books they advise to read about the subjects. In my spare time I photographed a lot and I read those books, I search the internet about people mention in those books, essays about the same subjects and read book mention in those books. At the end I didn't enroll in Uni, but I decided at 21 to take a profissional 2 year course in Photography and I was very dissapointed because 90% of the information I already knew, often I knew more that what was given in class, the only things I really learned was the pratical side of studio and large format photography, because those where the things I couldn't affort so I didn't really immerse myself in it. Sometimes I play with the ideia to go to Uni to study literature just to expand my knowlegde, but this really made me see that I could just do the same that I did about photography.
I am watching all of your videos now that I’ve discovered your channel, and most recently your video reading Proust. Immediately I’m struck by the thought (as a student of film/cinema) that if you love Proust (which I am only just discovering through you) that you would love Andrei Tarkovsky. Watch his films, I think they give the same feeling as the writing of Proust, especially Mirror (Зеркало) in which Tarkovsky ruminates on his childhood through a variety of real/surreal scenes. I highly recommend!
J'ai justement entendu un point de vu intéressant concernant les dépendances dernièrement, ça disait : les dépendances ne sont pas le problème, ils sont la solution. I can understand. Merci pour la vidéo super intéressante comme d'habitude ❤
I love the French excursions into literature and culture. They make it so very pleasurable! With regard to translations of Dante into English, the first or rather oldest translation I had was by Henry Francis Cary - this was published in 1814 and written in blank verse. The reception of it was boosted by Samuel Rogers and then S.T. Coleridge. However, the very popular translation was the one by Dorothy L Sayers and Betty Radice in the three volume Divine Comedy published by Penguin. I loved that translation because it was accessible and informative. It is a similar case say with The Tales of the Genji translated by Arthur Waley (whose Wu Chen's Monkey I adored), and the much more academic translation by Edward Seidensticker. I was fortunate to have an Italian girl friend who enlightened me to how Dante's poem sounded in the original Italian. So much of the musicality it lost in translation. Regarding Frankenstein - I just thought about the Romantic Noble Savage and how the monster fits into that typology. As to the horrors of science, think of AI writing Dante. :-). As always I enjoy your vlogs and the hyggeness :-)
Oh, ich LIEBE deine Kurse, das ist echt großartig und ich freue mich riesig für dich, dass du das alles entdecken und lernen darfst! Ich glaube mein Favorit wäre der Kurs über Suffering - aber echt schwer, sich da zu entscheiden! Aber auch das Zitat von Marguerite Duras und die Themen aus dem Kurs über Addiction und Ausgrenzung (oder so ähnlich), machen total Lust darauf, mehr darüber zu lesen, nachzudenken und zu sprechen. Allerdings wirklich nicht gerade die einfachsten bzw. leichtesten Themen. Ich habe im Lesehotel "Der Schmerz" von Duras gelesen - war mein erstes Werk von ihr und es war ziemlich heftig. Habe es in meinem Video über das Lesehotel auch versucht etwas zu rezensieren, mal schauen wie mir das geglückt ist, wenn ich das Video demnächst schneide und sehe, was ich da so erzählt habe 😁 Wünsche dir noch tolle, inspirierende Wochen! 🌺
I laughed when you almost went into existentialism but then said the video was already out of control. It seemed like a tightly run ship to me. The Dante/Borges project sounds incredible, I hope we can hear more about it as you dig in deeper. Duras! What a revelation. I will definitely hunt down her book you mentioned. Along those lines, we are reading Infinite Jest in my Art and Metaphysics of Fiction class. You mentioned your guest lecturer/author and suffering and Infinite Jest articulates mental health and addiction suffering like nothing I've read. And it's more. It's also, at turns, hilariously funny. Finally, I want to share that my Proust Together reading group finished the last page of volume 7 on Friday. We started in August 2023, ten pages a day and got to the finish line on Nov 2024. Every page of In Search of Lost Time. 4200 pages...and the ending (the last 100 pages) was so powerful that my first instinct upon finishing was to run back to the first page of Swann's Way and start the whole thing over with the new way of seeing that Proust gave us in the last volume. It was so good. Proust for life. You really seem to be thriving in Paris. It's inspiring and illuminating from this perspective. Thank you, see you next time.
having just finished in search of lost time, why do you suppose proust ended “swan in love” with swan’s realization, upon waking from a dream, that he “wasted years of my life, that i’ve longed to die, that i’ve experienced my greatest love, for a woman who didn’t appeal to me, who wasn’t even my type!”, only to find out that swan eventually marries odette?
“My video is going to get demonetized” elicited a chuckle from me! Well, by the way, Maria; curiosity got the better of me, and now I have to ask: How many languages do you speak? 😄
I'm reading philosophy of the Boudoir by Le Marquis de Sade.. I really like the literature of his brightness for that time in France really interesting...
Re bonjour! J’ai particulièrement aimé la section de ta vidéo où tu parles des auteurs comme Beckett qui ont réécrit leurs pièces de théâtre dans deux langues. Il existe bien sûr deux aspects des langues: le fond et la forme. Par exemple, une française qui écrit en anglais peut le faire de façon cartésienne et peut être plus empirique en écrivant en français. On peut adopter plusieurs cultures et les incorporer à notre narratif. J’ai beaucoup aimé aussi ce que tu as dit sur Dante et l’art de la traduction en général. Pourrais-tu nous parler des films que ton professeur a choisis pour analyser l’art cinématographique et nous parler de tes professeurs. Suis-tu surtout des travaux dirigés ou surtout des conférences? Qui sont les autres étudiants? Merci
In English, 'La Vie Materielle' by Duras, is translated as 'Practicalities'. Alcohol features strongly in some of her early novels such as 'Moderato Cantabile' & 'The Sailor from Gibraltar', but less so in her later works. Fascinating video. Thanks..
Ow, thank you! I'll pin this comment so other people can find it easily!
Adding this video to my list of resources for prospective students and autodidacts. You are phenomenal and we are lucky to have your videos!
Please keep making these videos if they continue to bring you joy when doing them, as they are so interesting for anyone who enjoy literature and for people who aspire to study it!!
I'm slowly returning to your videos, where i feel safe and identified studies. Inspiring me to persist in my philology and literature course at university! There are still a few years left until completion, the process is always the most beautiful part, a huge and admired kiss, Maria.
So happy and grateful for finding you channel
Quality content and quality channel! What a truly wonderful channel in fact! 😃
I really appreciate all the work you put into your videos, thank you :)
This kind of videos are magnificent and take a lot of time and effort keep it up ❤❤
I know that your channel is still small, but i hope you know that your content has helped me become emboldened in my academic pursuits of literature and philosophy, which has been particularly difficult as an American who is constantly pressured to study in the utilitarian sense and not for the cultivation of wisdom.
I read this comment a couple of days ago in a somewhat stressful/difficult moment and it somehow really touched me. I'm so happy to hear that, honestly.
The density of the video compels me to analyze the mise en scene of its filmic production: the contrast of the single shot, background covered in shadow, minimal lighting 🎥
It' great to see you expanding your literary repertoire, to hear your thoughts on Simone de Beauvoir. Question: have you given any thoughts to writing a memoir? 😄
If you don’t mind could you make a video about analysing a poem, a piece of literature and taking out ideas from a text. I’m interested to know this, and your way to explain things is “agréable “❤❤❤
I love this, thank you for the video!!! As someone who can't afford more schooling, this is really helpful for guiding my self-studying. Please keep making these types of videos if you can! Love from New York :)
Very nice setup 👌
And the soft light suit you well!
Thank you my friend :-)
Such interesting topics. Love your erudition and poise, thank you.
I'm a new subscriber but I so love your videos! Thank you for taking the time to share your reflections & knowledge with us ✨🌟☀️ take it in your pace though, we'll be here whenever you come back from any youtube breaks ♥️
Aw thanks for the kind comment. So happy to have you here!
Dante ❤ Congratulations on the 30k! Super well deserved
Thanks so much dear!
I feel so fortunated that you offer a grate extract with every meaningfull effort.
Thank you for making these videos.. Your simplicity shines through and it's infectious. Congratulations on 30K subs. You deserve this. Cheers from India!
Hey from india tooooo
Thank you very much for your videos ❤
Love from India ❤😊
Very interesting.
This video cemented in me the ideia that you really don't need to go to an uni to learn this type of subjects, but of course they help to be able to enter into the workforce related to this courses.
Twenty years ago i was in high school and I loved photography and I wanted to know everything I could about it, so I researched about uni courses in Photography and Visual Media, and what subjects they teach and what books they advise to read about the subjects. In my spare time I photographed a lot and I read those books, I search the internet about people mention in those books, essays about the same subjects and read book mention in those books. At the end I didn't enroll in Uni, but I decided at 21 to take a profissional 2 year course in Photography and I was very dissapointed because 90% of the information I already knew, often I knew more that what was given in class, the only things I really learned was the pratical side of studio and large format photography, because those where the things I couldn't affort so I didn't really immerse myself in it.
Sometimes I play with the ideia to go to Uni to study literature just to expand my knowlegde, but this really made me see that I could just do the same that I did about photography.
I am watching all of your videos now that I’ve discovered your channel, and most recently your video reading Proust. Immediately I’m struck by the thought (as a student of film/cinema) that if you love Proust (which I am only just discovering through you) that you would love Andrei Tarkovsky. Watch his films, I think they give the same feeling as the writing of Proust, especially Mirror (Зеркало) in which Tarkovsky ruminates on his childhood through a variety of real/surreal scenes. I highly recommend!
J'ai justement entendu un point de vu intéressant concernant les dépendances dernièrement, ça disait : les dépendances ne sont pas le problème, ils sont la solution. I can understand.
Merci pour la vidéo super intéressante comme d'habitude ❤
I love the French excursions into literature and culture. They make it so very pleasurable! With regard to translations of Dante into English, the first or rather oldest translation I had was by Henry Francis Cary - this was published in 1814 and written in blank verse. The reception of it was boosted by Samuel Rogers and then S.T. Coleridge. However, the very popular translation was the one by Dorothy L Sayers and Betty Radice in the three volume Divine Comedy published by Penguin. I loved that translation because it was accessible and informative. It is a similar case say with The Tales of the Genji translated by Arthur Waley (whose Wu Chen's Monkey I adored), and the much more academic translation by Edward Seidensticker. I was fortunate to have an Italian girl friend who enlightened me to how Dante's poem sounded in the original Italian. So much of the musicality it lost in translation. Regarding Frankenstein - I just thought about the Romantic Noble Savage and how the monster fits into that typology. As to the horrors of science, think of AI writing Dante. :-). As always I enjoy your vlogs and the hyggeness :-)
Oh, ich LIEBE deine Kurse, das ist echt großartig und ich freue mich riesig für dich, dass du das alles entdecken und lernen darfst! Ich glaube mein Favorit wäre der Kurs über Suffering - aber echt schwer, sich da zu entscheiden! Aber auch das Zitat von Marguerite Duras und die Themen aus dem Kurs über Addiction und Ausgrenzung (oder so ähnlich), machen total Lust darauf, mehr darüber zu lesen, nachzudenken und zu sprechen. Allerdings wirklich nicht gerade die einfachsten bzw. leichtesten Themen. Ich habe im Lesehotel "Der Schmerz" von Duras gelesen - war mein erstes Werk von ihr und es war ziemlich heftig. Habe es in meinem Video über das Lesehotel auch versucht etwas zu rezensieren, mal schauen wie mir das geglückt ist, wenn ich das Video demnächst schneide und sehe, was ich da so erzählt habe 😁 Wünsche dir noch tolle, inspirierende Wochen! 🌺
Aw vielen Dank für diesen schönen Kommentar Natascha!! Liebe Grüße nach Deutschland! 🌷
I laughed when you almost went into existentialism but then said the video was already out of control. It seemed like a tightly run ship to me. The Dante/Borges project sounds incredible, I hope we can hear more about it as you dig in deeper. Duras! What a revelation. I will definitely hunt down her book you mentioned. Along those lines, we are reading Infinite Jest in my Art and Metaphysics of Fiction class. You mentioned your guest lecturer/author and suffering and Infinite Jest articulates mental health and addiction suffering like nothing I've read. And it's more. It's also, at turns, hilariously funny. Finally, I want to share that my Proust Together reading group finished the last page of volume 7 on Friday. We started in August 2023, ten pages a day and got to the finish line on Nov 2024. Every page of In Search of Lost Time. 4200 pages...and the ending (the last 100 pages) was so powerful that my first instinct upon finishing was to run back to the first page of Swann's Way and start the whole thing over with the new way of seeing that Proust gave us in the last volume. It was so good. Proust for life. You really seem to be thriving in Paris. It's inspiring and illuminating from this perspective. Thank you, see you next time.
having just finished in search of lost time, why do you suppose proust ended “swan in love” with swan’s realization, upon waking from a dream, that he “wasted years of my life, that i’ve longed to die, that i’ve experienced my greatest love, for a woman who didn’t appeal to me, who wasn’t even my type!”, only to find out that swan eventually marries odette?
Proust for life indeed ❤ So happy to read all that my friend!
Your videos give me courage of doing the same. Thank you.
Keep it up your videos euphoric
“My video is going to get demonetized” elicited a chuckle from me! Well, by the way, Maria; curiosity got the better of me, and now I have to ask: How many languages do you speak? 😄
:-) 5
I'm reading philosophy of the Boudoir by Le Marquis de Sade.. I really like the literature of his brightness for that time in France really interesting...
Can you make a separate video on Frankenstein? It sounds so interesting
She did-it’s one of her earliest videos.
I am so amazed at the lack of freedom in France
addiction = escapism, unfortunately often to something more destructive than reality
Re bonjour! J’ai particulièrement aimé la section de ta vidéo où tu parles des auteurs comme Beckett qui ont réécrit leurs pièces de théâtre dans deux langues. Il existe bien sûr deux aspects des langues: le fond et la forme. Par exemple, une française qui écrit en anglais peut le faire de façon cartésienne et peut être plus empirique en écrivant en français. On peut adopter plusieurs cultures et les incorporer à notre narratif.
J’ai beaucoup aimé aussi ce que tu as dit sur Dante et l’art de la traduction en général.
Pourrais-tu nous parler des films que ton professeur a choisis pour analyser l’art cinématographique et nous parler de tes professeurs. Suis-tu surtout des travaux dirigés ou surtout des conférences? Qui sont les autres étudiants?
Merci
Hello there, very nice video as always. I would like to ask a question if you dont mind. Is there an M.A. programme in the University of Vienna?
Hi, do you know the original story of Frankenstein?
THANK YOU
existentialism vs determinism... boy is that a narrow set of options!
Will you marry me ❤
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