Thanks. I put the artwork together, dropped some PRB paintings into the video, too. I imagine metal detecting is fairly relaxing and throws up a fair few surprises, a hoard of Roman coins or an unexploded WWII bomb...
Obviously I can't be interested in every book you review, but I'm ALWAYS interested in what you have to say about them. And if it's ok for me to give you a tip for the french promounciation, I find google traduction's pronunciation really reliable. I've not heard any inacurate pronounciation of french words/names yet... It might save you time. Oh, and I was curious to hear what you thought of Maupassant's Notre coeur. I found the theme of love-desire/ non desire really interesting. I also appreciated the complexity of the main character's emotion and the depiction of the bourgeois Paris Milieu. I found this last novel of his truly beautiful although cynical.
Thanks, I'll try using Google in future. I greatly enjoyed Notre Coeur, but it had a few flaws in my view. Firstly, the way it disclosed information in that Jane Austen type of way, where chapter one is just a lot of backstory and physical description of the characters. I'm not a great fan of this technique, peculiar to the novel, and prefer information to be disclosed organically from the characters' experiences as much as possible. Secondly, the moral universe of this novel was impure, and so it was hard not to, as you say, share in the cynicism on display. Perhaps I am being very English, but the idea that a person has a great passion, a great love for a woman, but is still having sexual relations with other women, that just seemed to be a case of having one's cake and eating it, too, and the happy ending was preposterously French and amounted to the fulfilment of a male fantasy. First Love by Turgenev, which Notre Coeur clearly borrows from, was much better in this respect, and if you've not read it, I highly recommend giving it a try. Bel-Ami next!
Chrétien de Troyes is arguably the first European ''novelist''. the myth of the quest for the holy grail is of course another quintessential western myth. if only we understood that is the quest that counts and that we will never find it...
Indeed. Funny you should mention 'first European novelist' as I have just begun Apuleius' The Golden Ass, the only Latin work approximating a novel to survive in its entirety.
Nice thumbnail and artwork. Occasionally find coins artefacts from early medieval metal detecting.
Thanks. I put the artwork together, dropped some PRB paintings into the video, too.
I imagine metal detecting is fairly relaxing and throws up a fair few surprises, a hoard of Roman coins or an unexploded WWII bomb...
Obviously I can't be interested in every book you review, but I'm ALWAYS interested in what you have to say about them.
And if it's ok for me to give you a tip for the french promounciation, I find google traduction's pronunciation really reliable. I've not heard any inacurate pronounciation of french words/names yet... It might save you time.
Oh, and I was curious to hear what you thought of Maupassant's Notre coeur. I found the theme of love-desire/ non desire really interesting. I also appreciated the complexity of the main character's emotion and the depiction of the bourgeois Paris Milieu. I found this last novel of his truly beautiful although cynical.
Thanks, I'll try using Google in future.
I greatly enjoyed Notre Coeur, but it had a few flaws in my view. Firstly, the way it disclosed information in that Jane Austen type of way, where chapter one is just a lot of backstory and physical description of the characters. I'm not a great fan of this technique, peculiar to the novel, and prefer information to be disclosed organically from the characters' experiences as much as possible.
Secondly, the moral universe of this novel was impure, and so it was hard not to, as you say, share in the cynicism on display. Perhaps I am being very English, but the idea that a person has a great passion, a great love for a woman, but is still having sexual relations with other women, that just seemed to be a case of having one's cake and eating it, too, and the happy ending was preposterously French and amounted to the fulfilment of a male fantasy. First Love by Turgenev, which Notre Coeur clearly borrows from, was much better in this respect, and if you've not read it, I highly recommend giving it a try.
Bel-Ami next!
@@TheChannelofaDisappointedMan Thanks for your answer. I'll just leave at...I'm speechless.🤔
Oh, no!
Chrétien de Troyes is arguably the first European ''novelist''. the myth of the quest for the holy grail is of course another quintessential western myth. if only we understood that is the quest that counts and that we will never find it...
Indeed. Funny you should mention 'first European novelist' as I have just begun Apuleius' The Golden Ass, the only Latin work approximating a novel to survive in its entirety.