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Thank you for describing the life and works of J.M. Synge. I first learned of Synge from the 1962 film adaptation of Playboy of the Western World. As an American student in the 1960s, the movie acquainted me with the best of Irish storytelling: such beautiful language and authentic characters. I have read the play and watched the film multiple times, but the story retains its wonder to me. And his book The Aran Islands is a fascinating slice of life. I plan to visit Ireland for the first time this summer and the Aran Islands are very high on my list of visits. Thank you again for telling the story of Synge.

If she lived in todays time she wouldn’t have been a great writer for obvious reasons strange how these weirdos think they’re lonely when in reality you have no idea what loneliness is

The most compelling book I've ever read.

A one trick pony. Overrated? Absolutely. Put him in the same company as Bellow, Pyncheon, Gaddis, Morrison, Roth? Not on your life

British composer Benjamin Britten composed a wonderful song cycle based on Les Illuminations. In the original French. Check it out.

McCullers had many friends in communities of artists in New York. I think this presentation may somewhat overstate her own sense of isolation.

how tf did you say his name LMAOOOO

Not only translators butchered Verne's stories. Even his publisher demanded changes due to political correctness and corporal greed... The original intention of Jules Verne was to make Captain Nemo a Pole, a participant of the Polish January Uprising against the occupation of Poland by the Russian Empire, and it was planned that Nemo would sink Russian warships. However the publisher, Pierre-Jules Hetzel, strongly objected this for fear of losing Russian book market: the book would be banned by Russian censorship. In addition, Hetzel felt that the book would undermine French-Russian relations.

I love this yt channel.. watched many videos and subscribed. Thank u for uploading such videos ❤

I just finished reading Journey to the Center of the Earth in the original French and stumbled across this video. I'm shocked that so few of his works have received a proper translation into English. Having grown up thinking that Verne was a children's book author, I was shocked at how highly technical Journey was especially with regards to the geology and the equipment involved in an actual expedition. This was easily the most challenging book I've read in a non-native language (my first being English) but this video is making me consider reading some of his lesser known (in the Anglosphere) books and maybe taking a stab at doing some translation of my own. Thanks for posting this video!

I recently read "Ballad of the Sad Cafe" and was blown away by her writing. The atmosphere evoked by so few words - and the descriptions of people, places and moments left me wanting to read more of her works. Thank you for your brief and insightful presentation about this remarkable talented writer.

Fabulous, poetic novella - well worth a second reading. Le Grand Meaulnes (pronounced as the English 'moan' by the way) should have been a foretaste of a long and productive literary career. Thank goodness he completed it so young. In French, you seldom pronounce the last consonant of a word unless it is followed by an 'e'. Thank you for this lovely review. It is wonderful for this book to be given the attention it deserves.

Watching, and reading Heart. The room acoustics are too hard for this.

Didn't Leonardo de Caprio play him? 🙂

Read it three or so years ago, and still haven't made my mind up about it. Sad, strange, maybe a little alienating (for some), but worth reading certainly.

What a gorgeous video! Not even sure how you did it! I love this book and also his The Birds.

It's pronounced Artyoour Rham-BOH, not Arrthur (in English) Rombart.

If I want to start reading Richard's work where is a good place to begin? Are these Pilgrimage novels sequential or does it matter where to start? Thanks!

While I have heard of Clarel, I have never attempted to read it... Thanks to your prompting, I will! Excellent video - great to see you again - I am off to read!

"For my final bet I'd guess that most of you had probably not heard of Clarel until today's video" - Fine sir, you're god damn right.

Find me the beauty in Camden Nj?

For US its Grapes of Wrath, Catch 22 , "Slaugherhouse 5" and the recent 'A Winters Tale' And of course there's 'The Good Soldier Sweik' from ?Serbia

I agree. I loved "Voss" more than any other Aussie book. Especially Laura and Voss's communication to each other, over distance. (As aboriginal people could sometimes do.)( For the sceptics, the British Army's Long Range Desert Group could do it too.) Eye of the storm and Riders in the Chariot were good too. But "Bryce Courtney's Power of One"and Tandia and ?Whitethorn sequels are next choice. Regards.

Thank You!!! Great Summation.

include readings of poems you like by him man.. such a wasted vid

So happy ur back!

I’m writing my MA thesis on Richardson from cognitive literary studies perspective, it’s great to see videos like this on youtube, thank you!

I read the book on my channel!

I read this novel maybe 30 years ago or more and I found it very profound as each character searches for understanding and meaning in their lives. Singer, in some ways, is a God figure who they can mold into a personal deity. It certainly is one of the great novels of the 20th century and its themes mirror the struggles of living in the modern world. This was a wonderful summation of Carson's life. Thanks for your video!!

Years ago, I read all of her fiction and a biography of her, and I considered "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" and "Ballad of a Sad Cafe" to be the best among her works. Both seemed to me to be highly original, striking, memorable, unique.

Wright's family was more likely from the underclass than the working class. You know: the unmentionables.

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He was a pathetic human being. He hated most people, but himself most of all.

I think I might have one or more of her books. I grew up with Ida being a legend in my family. One of my more colorful storytelling ancestors claimed she was related to us. I never confirmed but I'll stick to his story. It was a delight thinking that a fabulously adventurous woman could have shared genes with me, the most cowardly of solo-travelers!

I have the privilege of living in a garret in the Carson McCullers House. The solitude here nurtures my work as a storyteller. There are no ghosts, but this place haunts the soul with McCuller's presence. The walls and windows to the ever-moving Hudson conspire.

Um ...

I think JD’s son is running the show now and I don’t see anything else being released by the family. It’s unfortunate.

This was great

This is a well considered video. I have read other Patrick White novels and have had Voss in the back of my mind for a while. I'm stuck on a Richard Flannagan's The Sound of One Hand Clapping which is also powerful. One of my problems with Patrick White is not about his writing but that he was an arrogant man. One must seperate art from personality of course. I just love Aussie Lit though. It's an endless mine of gems.

thanks, this was interesting and succint.

~Great video!

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Verlaine was just horny for a young kid to bugger . Thats why he was impressed . He raped Rimbaud recklessly . The 3 r's

Just rewatched Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Alan Arkin 1934-2023

I visited Rimbaud's home while visiting the township of Harar, Ethipoia w/ my French Friends, one researching their Family Ethiopian roots, that is when I was introduced to Rimbaud & his Poetry. ;)

I’m a prose poet working on my first novel. It mirrors Ray Bradbury’s stitched together novel style. With this out of the way let me say I feel blessed to have learned writers like Carson exist, and they all share one of the many diseases that bless, curse, and ultimately destroy the writer….loneliness, feeling unloved. God bless you Carson. You’re not unloved and I pray you have forgotten what loneliness feels like or means, and how you have helped keep this writer from killing himself. And good upload 🙂

What a storied life in two chapters Rimbaud had.

Sir, thank you for the fine intro.

I love Charles baudelaire one of my favorite things he says I think he says anyway is God does not need to exist in order to be important