I wish this video was here when I read the book about 5 years ago! I found it challenging and would have appreciated this framing of it as I was really trying to process it. I think at the time I wasn't as deep in the world of literature and maybe wasn't fully receptive to the subtler points of this novel. Looking back though, I can easily see that sense of unease being in the world that permeates the novel, as you nicely put it.
Thank you, Mike! I'm currently re-reading Giovanni's Room and preparing a review of it. I am finding so much more to think about in my re-reading. Baldwin is certainly an author that should be re-read.
Well worth each minute of listening, and certainly worthy of Baldwin. Im interested in this sense of just writing down or in your case reviewing, whats already there. I guess its the illusion, for the reader of the writer and maybe the writer and reviewer, of bypassing the burden of having to necessarily engage with fabulation in order to get the work done. Ha ha, easy to imagine the above, harder to say.
Thanks a lot, Alex! "Pure" observation, if we can call it that, is certainly an active & highly-controlled process, and that to me implies that it is guided by imagination. Which is why when I read Baldwin, I am moved at the same time by his astute observations and his rich imagination.
Amazing video! I just read the book and this video helped me a lot to reflect on the story
Thank you - Hearing that means a lot to me. Happy New Year!
I wish this video was here when I read the book about 5 years ago! I found it challenging and would have appreciated this framing of it as I was really trying to process it. I think at the time I wasn't as deep in the world of literature and maybe wasn't fully receptive to the subtler points of this novel. Looking back though, I can easily see that sense of unease being in the world that permeates the novel, as you nicely put it.
Thank you, Mike! I'm currently re-reading Giovanni's Room and preparing a review of it. I am finding so much more to think about in my re-reading. Baldwin is certainly an author that should be re-read.
Well worth each minute of listening, and certainly worthy of Baldwin. Im interested in this sense of just writing down or in your case reviewing, whats already there. I guess its the illusion, for the reader of the writer and maybe the writer and reviewer, of bypassing the burden of having to necessarily engage with fabulation in order to get the work done. Ha ha, easy to imagine the above, harder to say.
Thanks a lot, Alex! "Pure" observation, if we can call it that, is certainly an active & highly-controlled process, and that to me implies that it is guided by imagination. Which is why when I read Baldwin, I am moved at the same time by his astute observations and his rich imagination.