French Passions: Edmund de Waal on Proust

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  • Опубликовано: 14 янв 2025

Комментарии • 22

  • @anuradhainamdar8967
    @anuradhainamdar8967 3 года назад +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.

  • @abooswalehmosafeer173
    @abooswalehmosafeer173 4 года назад +7

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

  • @anodyne57
    @anodyne57 Год назад +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'.)

  • @Poemsapennyeach
    @Poemsapennyeach 2 года назад +3

    Begins at 6.30

  • @MiataBRG
    @MiataBRG 2 года назад +2

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

  • @Liliquan
    @Liliquan 7 лет назад +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 года назад

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

  • @l.s.754
    @l.s.754 3 года назад +5

    Interviewer, talks too much nonesense,in introduction

    • @2msvalkyrie529
      @2msvalkyrie529 2 года назад +1

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

  • @andreashenatsch42
    @andreashenatsch42 3 года назад

    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 года назад +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 !

  • @andreadaleyutronebel5894
    @andreadaleyutronebel5894 4 года назад +1

    Speaking of ethnic persecuation, what about the Palestinians?

  • @aegrotuscarnifex3169
    @aegrotuscarnifex3169 7 лет назад +3

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

    • @kw6143
      @kw6143 7 лет назад +2

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

    • @aegrotuscarnifex3169
      @aegrotuscarnifex3169 7 лет назад +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 лет назад +2

      Your syntax is freaking terrifying.

    • @charlespeterson3798
      @charlespeterson3798 6 лет назад

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

    • @Interwurlitzer
      @Interwurlitzer 4 года назад +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)