French Passions: Edmund de Waal on Proust

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  • Опубліковано 22 гру 2024

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  • @anuradhainamdar8967
    @anuradhainamdar8967 3 роки тому +6

    I have done a three years diploma in French and have read many French authors and am acquainted with them. Having read Victor Hugo, Alexander Dumas, Emile Zola, Guy de Maypassant, Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Gustav Flaubert, Madam de Beauvoir, and curious to read many more French authors of French literature in French itself such as Marcel Proust I was thinking of doing further research/ studies as an advertisement had come in a Indian International newspaper " Times of India " in July , but because of the Coronavirus couldn't do it.But I am not pessimistic, let's hope this corona 🤣😂🤣😂 Pandemic which is really haunting mankind lessen its sway.

  • @anodyne57
    @anodyne57 Рік тому +5

    "Ermm...umm...extooor-di-naaary...and sooo-so-much..." Lord help us. Thankfully De Waal's writing isn't so exquisitely painful and "performative" as his hyper-self-conscious public speaking...or then again, maybe it is?
    Now reading "Swann's Way", and I'm constanly surprised at how even in the midst of his discursive and elaborative perambulations, not one word or sentence seems meant as filler or fluff. Every word is thoughtfully chosen and every stream of sentences a treasure. (The translation is Lydia Davis'.)

  • @abooswalehmosafeer173
    @abooswalehmosafeer173 4 роки тому +6

    An introduction so soporific with hum!!! Hum !! That I grew impatient....

  • @Poemsapennyeach
    @Poemsapennyeach 2 роки тому +3

    Begins at 6.30

  • @MiataBRG
    @MiataBRG 2 роки тому +2

    Hmm. This was about Edmund de Waal, not about Proust.

  • @Liliquan
    @Liliquan 7 років тому +4

    Other than the unnecessary malicious distortion of postmodernism and relativism and the mind-numbing frequency of the "ummm"' like pauses, it was an average discussion.

    • @AnthonyLeighDunstan
      @AnthonyLeighDunstan 3 роки тому

      I'm proud of myself - almost 16' before yielding to the machine gun spray of "umms"!

  • @andreashenatsch42
    @andreashenatsch42 3 роки тому

    I am afraid that Edmund de Waal needs help. May be a little bit of motherly love would do it. God bless you Edmund.

  • @2msvalkyrie529
    @2msvalkyrie529 3 роки тому +1

    He won't be able to sign any books after the talk ?? !
    What a loss ...! Presumably his Swiss Bank Account is
    already full to the brim !

  • @l.s.754
    @l.s.754 3 роки тому +4

    Interviewer, talks too much nonesense,in introduction

    • @2msvalkyrie529
      @2msvalkyrie529 2 роки тому +1

      Yes . Imagine what Proust would have made of these two ?
      Also , de Waal is an obnoxious snob - the type most detested by
      Proust.

  • @andreadaleyutronebel5894
    @andreadaleyutronebel5894 4 роки тому +1

    Speaking of ethnic persecuation, what about the Palestinians?

  • @aegrotuscarnifex3169
    @aegrotuscarnifex3169 7 років тому +3

    Edmund de Waal is vastly average, immensely mediocre .....

    • @kw6143
      @kw6143 7 років тому +2

      Aegrotus Carnifex you must be vastly exceptional, immensely outstanding to judge him so

    • @aegrotuscarnifex3169
      @aegrotuscarnifex3169 7 років тому +2

      IQ in the super-genius range & 3 universities + maths scholarship & Arabic German ETC yes, whilst remaining modest. Rich shits like de Waal buy opportunities their superiors never enjoy + I wrote him a nice letter once & he didn't have the good manners to reply.

    • @charlespeterson3798
      @charlespeterson3798 6 років тому +2

      Your syntax is freaking terrifying.

    • @charlespeterson3798
      @charlespeterson3798 6 років тому

      @@aegrotuscarnifex3169 AHHHHH..... Dry Pussy......

    • @Interwurlitzer
      @Interwurlitzer 4 роки тому +1

      @@aegrotuscarnifex3169Reverse Dunning Krueger effect? Your formidable level of modesty transpiring from your resumé reminds me of a hungarian lingo: 'you cant simultanously be a virgin and engage in lewd behaviour'. Overall with the additional story concerning this 'nice unanswered letter' you certainly have a redeeming feature: absurdely entertaining)