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We're back for a video which
will be my recent reads that is to say my reads of January
so I'm already sorry, you'll notice
without any doubt that I'm enough bluish or greenish it's bc I record when it's nighttime
and I really try to succeed to thwart
artificial lights
which are rather gold and yellow at home
Here! So today I will -oulala
Do I will succeed all those books ? MM-
I will talk you of my reads of January
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So I read a lot on January! I read
17 books, I believe
which is a little a record for me, generally I didn't read so much, I don't know what there are
but I am in a reading time
so I will talk you briefly bc I
don't want to have so much of editing on this video
and I don't want it takes time very long time to upload bc my Internet is rubbish in this moment
I pay fibre and I can assure you
that whati have it isn't the fibre well so well
brief this it's other thing
so those recent reads aren't classified bc
I don't remember in what sequence I read all simply
and I'll try to speak of you enough briefly
I don't make a summary and an analysis of those 17 works otherwise this video will  last
3 hours so firstly
and that I don't have here at my home
here bc I let  at home, in the South rather, I read Sophocles, uhm
I read " Antigone" by Sophocles rather bc it was here like this in my home, i wanted
 
to reread bc I was more familiar
with " Antigone " by Jean Anouilh soi wanted to remember
a bit original play
Antigone is one of ancient play I prefer
and this is very inspirational
I find to reread " Antigone "
it's like a bit one of  foundations and basis, I wanna say
of a lot of plots
and possible rewritings and i always find this very inspirational. Okay we're ready
Then I read " 1984 " by George Orwell
it was my first time, I didn't read thois book before
I tried to read " Animal Farm " that I diidn't like at all
- I have super dry lips -
I tried to read "zanimal Farm " that
I didn't like at all, I believe I didn't finish btw
tbh yes I read
it wasn't a difficult read or arduous
but no
it isn't in my favourite books, it wasn't an unbelievable reading
it's obviously very interesting, it's
effectively always topicality
it makes reflect and this is a work which btw will be amazing to study with students
 
but here for me it isn't exactly my cup of tea
I guess it's mostly maybe style which makes
I didn't really match
and i expected to more actually, I guess I expected
to more of lenghts, more details, more deepth
and maybe a little more of explicit
I guess-sorry-in violences
and
even in the whole of concepts
Idk I was a bit
on my hunger I guess, I stayed on my hunger but obviously it's an important book
and I'm glzad to read it!
Then I read " Quatre chapitres " by Rabindranath Tagore
who is an indian author
more precisly of Benghal part
and he
has Nobel Price in 1913 btw!
and so he writes in Benghali
and it's the first time that
this novel has been translated in french
I will talk you more in details
during February bc there have a little project
which comes to life  in February
so i don't say you a lot, all that I can say you
it's a work i find
ambitious, it's a classic, we feel strongly in the way
of how it's written and in themes
it goes.. it isn't really an easy read, I didn't
find it obvious as read
I find it a little steep with style and writing's way
It doesn't something which really touches me in this sense but on ther other hand
it's true it was extremely interesting
and it gave me the will more of this author
to read more of indian literature and there were very interesting
and important questiont for philosophy speaking
or developed and politically especially
all simply well all simply not but the question
of what until we can go
how explain and how accept sacrifice
for a cause which is important for us like political resistance for example
and how accept that
this commitment, devode, sacrifice
will make that ce can't be happy in others parts of our life
and it can too make suffer persons who were up for us
Here! then I read - ooh-
" Le ciel brûle "
with " tentative de jalousie " by Marina Tsvestaîeva
who is a russian poet
I really really like a lot
this poetry btw there have some poems
that i absolutely adored, especially one which i think
has become one of my favourite poems
really, to read, if you like poetry
 
if you like poetry, it's really beautiful, beautiful
beautiful poetry extremely inspirational
very
very powerful,very pictorially
so obvously this is a translation but with unbelievable rhythmic
and I really like a lot, a lot this work !
I like complexity
which emanates of it and it gave me the will to know the poet
which makes that btw I read
wait, I'll find it, of the same author
" Mon frère féminin"  which is a very, very short
 
it's a letter actually, well not really a letter but it's a
short address
to a, a, a
to Nathalie Clifford Barney who write
" Pensées
d'une amazone " that
btw I would like
read and I searched but unfornutalely
which is super expensive and almost not edited well brief it's sad! And
this is a very short text
in that she reflects to lesbian love
and
to sum it up,
if you want, it's a little bit a reflection on
how we can make last a lesbian love when it hits itself
to one, at last at the time
to one of the hardest impossibilities
to accept for a lot of ppl
it's that we can't have children so obviously me
I absolutely don't feel concerned bc I say myself " but how we can
let somebody who we love bc we
don't have children ? " well obviously but it's bc
i absolutely don't want children and this child's desire is too something which is totally unknown for me
but here it's this which is explored
difficulties to love
between women when
we can't childbear, we can't have child like this
it was
interesting even if I think
it doesn't correspond to all the realities
but it was interesting, it just all simply extremely interesting to have somebody
who reflects too explicit
and assumed to this question of lesbian love which is such rarely
in literature. Wait, I have a book
I believe i've read. we go to this
by Junichiro Tanizaki
I read " Deux amours cruelles " I will retalk you
too during February, I A-DO-RED
so anyways Tanizaki, unbelievable author, genius author
author to read, author to discover, if you haven't read him, what did you do ???
 
I adore Tanizaki, really
all of his works, all I read, it's just amazing
perfectly dosed between
perversity, subtlety, fineness,
beauty
it's wonderful and I adore Tanizaki
too for style even if it's a translation than for addressed themes which are, anytimes,
extremely
there always have an homogeneity
how is it called?- a line
AAH, a consistency in his work but in the same time
there always have a renewal. Really, Tanizaki
I passionately like
So, then i read " She came to stay " by Simone de Beauvoir
which one of the books
at bookclub's program, if you don't watch ever
I made a video, my previous video
which dealt
with " L'Enfant de sable " by Tahar Ben Jelloun
and Simone de Beauvoir
" She came to stay " and I released too the reads for February
with the mention too of a
festival, a literary salon in Hôtel de Ville of Paris
the weekend of
February 8th to 10th which is entitled "
Maghreb-Orient Des Livres " which talks of Maghreb literature
and Middle East
a little bit far too, so super interesting
I encourage you to watch this video if you wanna know  what i thought of " She came to stay "
Then, I read, other poetry "
" Les poésies d'amour " by Anna Akhmatova and I will retalk too
in February
I liked a lot
but a lot less still than Marina Tsvetaieva who is really
become somebody
that i really really want to know, to discover and remeet
Akhmatova, I will read others things of her bc
 
she's an important part of russian literature and I can't stay only to this
mostly it's chosen poems by the translator so here
but it was still very interesting
and more affordable
more accessible if you don't like so much poetry bc Marina Tsvetaieva
I find it was " poeticer "and more
more " traditional poetry ".
I read " Kyoto " by Kawabata
I read it because I wanted  not study extracts with my students
so like usually Kawabata it is very
japanese
very beautiful, very compounded
very subtle with interpretations and
analysis of
-how to say it-
Kawabata, I find, it's really
in little things we understand his
work and his message with always reflections which are
in reality
much more deep than the topic could let think
and here it is
2 twins who are separated at birth
and they don't even know
they exist, anytime one doesn't know she has a twin, they
have been both adopted
no, one has been adopted, the other is stayed with her family
but the father is dead
well brief here and they meet theirselves and actually
they had two diferent destinies, two different educations
two different world's vision
and then
behind all of this, there have obviously reflection on
Kyoto, on Japan's evolution, on
modernization of Japan, traditions, etc.
And it's a very delicate writing, very different
very, very different than Tanizaki
I prefer Tanizaki but Kawabata is still really
a huge japanse author. Then
I read, what i'll say you, I read " L'Oeuvre " by Zola
so like with each Zola
you can't be disappointed, you can't spent a bad moment
Zola is a genius author, all simply, of genius!
I liked a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot
" L'Oeuvre "
and here it's just extremely interesting and btw it can make echo/parallelism
I read very, very briefly
in my first literary podcast
which I put it below if you don't hear
where I talk you of the woman like creation of the man
and it's something which can return
in this novel
even if this novel deals still more
of art and sufferings linked
to art and it's about recognizing, mode
art in the society
but I adored, really, I absolutely devoured
this book like every Zola btw!
It's a sure value I wanna say if I can express myself like this!
Appreciation a lot less, we'll say positive, I read
" La Peste " by Camus bc same it was here at home
and I said myself " still still still still
it should you read more of Camus "
Yes, okay it wasn't bad,
it wasn't
it doesn't
touch me, here there have 2/3 moments
we'll say that I appreciated, I guess I particulary appreciated
a moment
I don't remember of the page
but it's true I appreciated in a moment the reflection on
the fact that we should always take
the victim's way/part and it's this we make
good things, well I don't remember
but
well
it's, I think it can please to a lot, I know that Camus is an appreciated author
for a lot of persons
and I know he's an important author, etc.
But really for myself it doesn't touch me
his writing too, themes addressed by him
in all case it isn't that they don't touch me but it's the way
it doesn't touch me not at all!
and it mzakes same thing when I read
" L'Etranger "
" Le premier homme " I believe it's called like this
I believe I have read " Le mythe de Sysiphe " too, here it
interested me a little bit more still
but here, I'm not fan of Camus
sorry!
So, then I'll talk you of what?
Well, I will talk you of " La Quête " by Naguib Mahfouz
so I adore Naguib Mahfouz
I adore Naguib Mahfouz, it's a very short novel
that i recommend if you want initiate you to Naguib Mahfouz
it stays still a work enough different I think of
his most famous works like " La Trilogie  du Caire "
like " Le Cortège  des Vivants "
this is more, well, so already it's
less long, we can less see aspect developed
really saga and panoramic and described aspect
and describe like Balzac, Flaubert
Zola who can have indeed Naguib Mahfouz
but it's still, here it's more little so
it's more accessible
if you dislike read or
not sure, it's just wonderfully written
it perfectly hold spellbound, there have.. it seems a lot more to Dostoievski
here, if I should compare
to something you had, we usually know more
it makes think to Dostoievski I find
and it is just amazing, well I really
adored and same, always reflections on
women and female characters of Naguib Mahfouz, I find this extremely interesting
I adore, adore, adore, adore Naguib Mahfouz
so here, I absolutely recommend
So, we go to this
" Les canons tonnent la nuit " de Nha Ca, I think,
I'm not sure, she's a vietnamese author
I will retalk you too I think
but I really liked a lot this book at the end, a little bit as " She came to stay "
 
I had a few of difficulties during all the read, I didn't match so much
I missed something and then near the end, it won in intensity
unbelievable and I cried a little bit
still, it's the story of a family
during Vietnam's war
nt Vietnam War, Americans but
and here they left North
to go to the South" to escape to the communists"
and
their son
 
the boyfriend, the fiance of one of the daughter
has been to the war and we wait their come back with impatience
and obviously you can imagine what there have, it's written very well
measured very well, built, we really feel
there have
-how to say- a deep reflection since the beginning to the end
and how things are put in this book
I really liked a lot!
But I still liked a lot more than this " Au-delà des illusions "
by Duong Thu Huong that I will retalk to you
during February that I absolutely
adored, I devoured it
Really, I didn't see  340 pages spent
amazingly written, a story, stories
love story
with politic
please or oppose
to partis and
emancipate, revelate, affirm yourself in our identity
it's wonderfully, wonderfully written
really a huge classic
I absolutely recommend you, I adored this book
which is btw wonderfully well written and introduced female characters
extremely interesting
Then, we will speak about " Bruges-la-morte "
I read " Bruges-la-morte " by Rodenbach
I moderately appreciated
this book, it was interesting
same, very interesting for possible studies with
students I think with figures of speech
french-speaker's level
Though no, what I say?
bc it has been translated, it seems to me or written in french ?
No, I believe it has been written in french
it's well and
for symbolism's level
and decadence I think we can put it to both
but it was extremely dull
 
and peevish like read. I think it goes well
to the book
this is the story of a man who is widower and goes to live in Bruges bc it remembers
his wife and to Bruges remembers him too
himself, like a friend, like a reflect, a mirror and then finally he discovers
in Bruges there have a young woman who really  looks like
to his
wife who is dead
recently and here I don't spoil you the end
of the story. It is interesting
but here I missed something I think we aren't nor in
fantastic nor horror nor gothic
nor in
a real big symbolism and so I was a little bit
again, stayed on my hunger, here.
Go, we have only 3 books! We are in almost!
I read
 
" L'Héritage " by Sandor Marai  and I will retalk to you too
during February. sandor Marai is
an hungarian author
who isn't very famous in France but yet he is one of the most important of hungarian literature
with Imri Cartez (?) for example
he wrote " Les Braises " which is very famous
and I read two books of him
it is the third, it's maybe that I liked the less
in the read but
it is that I appreciated the most for analysis and reflection
this is the story of a family meeting
with a protagonist, Esther
who is a young woman who isn't married, well a young woman...
no, who isn't anymore a young woman and not married
and a pretender/lover, somebody she loved, comes back and all the family wait the come back
of this person who makes a lot of little problems in the family
and it's their reunion
that we assist and we don't expect reunions like this
it isn't exactly what you expect
I think. Sandor Marai, there have an extremely disullioned writing
extremely
melancholy and nostalgic
and this is an author I like a lot and I adore Hungary
not their politic but here
so it is very interesting. Go! Before last!
" Les boites de ma femme " by Eun Hee-Kyung
so, Eun Hee-Kyung is a korean author who writes a lot
and who is considered like feminist by
a lot of persons
this is a collection of 5 short stories,
I will retalk to you too during February more in details. i really
really really appreciated a lot this read
I'm impatient to discover the other part  of her work
I liked well the style which is too
dry and too inventive
and poetic and too I liked
plots which are honestly original, I liked underlying themes
Okay, we  have been cut bc I don't have anymore of space on my memory card
so we'll go very very quickly so I said
it deals too with the importance of communication in love relationships
and dismantling, really desegregation of
those  love relationships
it's really something which can please to a lot I think
so I recommend you and there will have a video in February on this book anyways!
and go the last book! but not least, " Le Cheval Blanc " by Elsa Triolet
w<hich is bigger a little bit than others
which takes a certain time, - I guess I'm not on focus, sorry
yes I was on focus well brief whatever- I put much time
to read bc at certains moments, I felt
there have still lenghth
and actually it maybe one of my bests reads of this month of January
I cried at the end of this book, it was wonderfully
well written and I thought to " Aurélien "
no,  idk bc I say sorry but well Elsa Triolet
was
beloved wife of Aragon and Aragon was beloved man of Elsa Triolet
well brief whatever! but to sum it up, it maybe not such surprise like this
than their works as they were written at the same place
and they were 2 persons who loved mutually and have affinities
at the same place, at the same time I wanna say
I adored, this is the story of a young man
Michel who
let himself carried by life, who does meeting
some happy, some not, some painful
some which will  extremely painful
for the persons he will meet, other which will affect himself
and thenthere have war which wait
watchtower and war which finally comes
it's really a novel of the time, if you
like " Aurélien ", beautiful neighborhoods
you will like, if you like Céline
maybe you will like too even if me, I don't like Céline
and I hated " Voyage au but de la nuit "
but this, there have this idea, something of this time
of this literature of the Time
and it was good, I adored, really
I felyt like if it was a real person that I read,
knew that I read his life and the end waw
so I really really liked a lot and I will read others
works of Elsa Triolet but here it's a little bit
long, there have a lot of descriptions, sometimes very careful
of interiors
of furnitures, etc so sometimes
it's a bit long but I really really rerally liked
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Here! I thank you, sorry for a bit
of the rush of this end of video but I have no battery..uhh well.. no place on my memory card
and I hope it interested you
continue to read, whether 1 or 17 books, it should read
we should just appreciate our read and read with
miscellaneous way !
Here ! Miscellenaous ! Here, I say you : see you next !
Byebyeee !
