The novel The End of Eddy is a true masterpiece, a part of great tradition of the French literature. The narration is full of raw naturalistic scenes (violence, unemployment, alcoholism, sex, porn, masturbation etc.) but everything here has it's purpose. There is no place for vulgarity or obscenity. It's not about LGBT but about accepting your own identity. Being gay (or just being different) opens you horizonts. Edouard moved on, pulled himself together and accepted himself. Now he is a well educated young man with proletarian, humble origins but reached aristocratic manners and the heights of the French literature. He approaches the problem of homosexuality much more seriously than other contemporary authors. P. S. I adore his fluent English with a decent French accent and his intellectual capacity.
Men first always the same. Where are the lesbian voices!!!a subdued barely audible interview on sound cloud. Even PEncam do better. Nothing egalitarian
I cant help but comment on the man seated at the center - he talked a lot during what seemed an hour and I didnt understand ONE WORD that he said. I have never seen anyone so disjointed and incoherent. Either he was stoned or is simply brain damaged. NOT ONE WORD made any sense.
I can’t help but reply to your comment and would encourage you to rewatch Garth Greenwell’s comments. He states that the roll of the artist is “to pierce the myths we tell ourselves”. What follows is a very nuanced expansion upon that responsibility. And he concludes with a quite bold statement about the notion of what is lost when we say “love is love”: “If that battle for marriage equality was won at the cost of sacrificing a notion of human affective relationship as something that can inhabit all kinds of models and forms and that can look all sorts of ways I think we have given up too much. If that particular branding campaign that was marriage equality comes at the cost of being able to talk in genuine ways about things like queer shame…. If we can’t look at our lives and explore them with all the ambivalence and ambiguity that our political and activist discourse has become incapable of accommodating, then I think we’ve lost too much.” Please rewatch his comments against the idea that the queer narratives gets worn out. He is quite articulate about “taking stigma and turning it into style”. I would also encourage you to read his book “What Belongs to You”, where all that he expresses in this panel and more is beautifully tied in. I can understand where Garth may have lost you with his style of speech which appears to be a sort of rambling stream of consciousness. But I believe he is merely searching for the vocabulary with which to express his ideas. Saying that he appears to be on drugs or brain damaged is a very ungenerous assumption. Please rewatch and I do hope you hear what I heard. It was quite eye opening.
The novel The End of Eddy is a true masterpiece, a part of great tradition of the French literature. The narration is full of raw naturalistic scenes (violence, unemployment, alcoholism, sex, porn, masturbation etc.) but everything here has it's purpose. There is no place for vulgarity or obscenity. It's not about LGBT but about accepting your own identity. Being gay (or just being different) opens you horizonts. Edouard moved on, pulled himself together and accepted himself. Now he is a well educated young man with proletarian, humble origins but reached aristocratic manners and the heights of the French literature. He approaches the problem of homosexuality much more seriously than other contemporary authors. P. S. I adore his fluent English with a decent French accent and his intellectual capacity.
I think the discourse/discussion here was superb ... lots to think about. I will listen to it again.
Men first always the same. Where are the lesbian voices!!!a subdued barely audible interview on sound cloud. Even PEncam do better. Nothing egalitarian
Paranoia or egocentrism ? Otherwise check out the title of the video before commenting darling.
I cant help but comment on the man seated at the center - he talked a lot during what seemed an hour and I didnt understand ONE WORD that he said. I have never seen anyone so disjointed and incoherent. Either he was stoned or is simply brain damaged. NOT ONE WORD made any sense.
I can’t help but reply to your comment and would encourage you to rewatch Garth Greenwell’s comments.
He states that the roll of the artist is “to pierce the myths we tell ourselves”. What follows is a very nuanced expansion upon that responsibility. And he concludes with a quite bold statement about the notion of what is lost when we say “love is love”: “If that battle for marriage equality was won at the cost of sacrificing a notion of human affective relationship as something that can inhabit all kinds of models and forms and that can look all sorts of ways I think we have given up too much. If that particular branding campaign that was marriage equality comes at the cost of being able to talk in genuine ways about things like queer shame…. If we can’t look at our lives and explore them with all the ambivalence and ambiguity that our political and activist discourse has become incapable of accommodating, then I think we’ve lost too much.”
Please rewatch his comments against the idea that the queer narratives gets worn out. He is quite articulate about “taking stigma and turning it into style”.
I would also encourage you to read his book “What Belongs to You”, where all that he expresses in this panel and more is beautifully tied in.
I can understand where Garth may have lost you with his style of speech which appears to be a sort of rambling stream of consciousness. But I believe he is merely searching for the vocabulary with which to express his ideas. Saying that he appears to be on drugs or brain damaged is a very ungenerous assumption.
Please rewatch and I do hope you hear what I heard. It was quite eye opening.