'When I die, Dublin will be written in my heart.' Thank you James Joyce.

@donaldedward4951

4 жыл бұрын

Some English sovereign said that about Calais but she used the word "found" which is actually more correct. I never bothered with Joyce but have fun with his silly quotes. He is famous for being hard to understand like my Chinese neighbor whom nobody ever heard of.

I try reading Ulysses every now and then to deflate my Mr. know-it-all attitude. The ultimate leash for my intellectual pride.

@the_most_ever_company

7 жыл бұрын

It gets worse... what if you do *get it*? Then you're totally insufferable. It happened to me... had to move on to the harder stuff... Finnegans Wake... But fortunately once you *get* that one, you're basically a God, ask Joseph Campbell

@bighardbooks770

5 жыл бұрын

#Dubliners2019 ☘️🤯🇮🇪

@seasons1146

4 жыл бұрын

Heeey can you plis tell me the theories in it?

@abanana2561

4 жыл бұрын

Never be so certain of yourself

@faryalkhan6918

3 жыл бұрын

Well ulysses is my next TBR, so excited hope it helps me understand my self better.

Ulysses is a masterpiece, but Dubliners is the most perfect piece of writing I'll probably ever read. Not difficult at all and it's endlessly sublime.

@jimbeam-ru1my

Жыл бұрын

it sucxked and your feigned appreciation of it shows that you're just a midwit poser

@vozamaraktv-art5595

8 ай бұрын

'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' as well.

@guidoguido2245

Ай бұрын

@@vozamaraktv-art5595portrait gets so difficult at times 😅

@vozamaraktv-art5595

Ай бұрын

@@guidoguido2245 🙂

Joyce's style is more relevant today than ever considering the choppy, abbreviated and polluted thoughts we all experience in such an over-stimulating and informational existence

@fluff975

5 жыл бұрын

u smart

@vchemka2

5 жыл бұрын

Your thought are maybe choppy but I won't generalize here

@bighardbooks770

5 жыл бұрын

#Dubliners2019 ☘️🤯🇮🇪

@wadejameskennedy4495

4 жыл бұрын

Please leave me out of it ( we ) when commenting use " i " & speak for yourself please. Its ok to speak about yourself.

@seasons1146

4 жыл бұрын

Booouuy do you know some of the theories in his work? Plis tell meeee. I have a paper due.

A portrait of the artist as a young man is one of the most beautiful things ever written....

My favourite story about James Joyce: When Joyce and drinking buddy Ernest Hemingway faced a potential brawl, Joyce would hide behind his more imposing comrade and shout “Deal with him, Hemingway, deal with him!!!’

@SamJamwich1

5 жыл бұрын

Mine is a when a fan asked to shake the hand that wrote Ulysses and he refused, saying "it's done other things"

@namebrandmason

5 жыл бұрын

@@stepatatime5388 Sylvia Beach related the story in her memoirs "Shakespeare and Company." I don't know where she learned this, but I also don't know why she would make this up.

@bighardbooks770

5 жыл бұрын

#Dubliners2019 ☘️🤯🇮🇪

@johntechwriter

4 жыл бұрын

He and Nora slept head-to-foot.

@brahimilyes681

4 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I can't

"utterly baffling to a reader in a hurry" Well said!

there is no past, no future, everything flows in an eternal present... truer truth never spoken better...

Ulysses is a crazy novel. There are so many references that go over my head.

In this beautiful attempt at explaining what art is made for, this video becomes poetry itself. Thank you so much for this ❤

Finally an Irish writer! You should look into doing Wilde or Beckett next

@kelvinchao6222

7 жыл бұрын

Do a Beckett one, please.

@JapanJohnny2012

7 жыл бұрын

Brendan Behan, please.

@mori1166

7 жыл бұрын

JapanJohnny2012 I'm with you

@ywchyzkxqlxp

7 жыл бұрын

any book recommendation from beckett?

@64phlame

7 жыл бұрын

Ben Macdowall +1 for Wilde

I fucking love this channel.

@mozammilali7025

7 жыл бұрын

+

@khyrianstorms

7 жыл бұрын

I love this fucking channel.

@MrMikuarikashi

7 жыл бұрын

Yo también lo amo

@dietcock809

7 жыл бұрын

J'aime aussi

@augustinadriancristea5873

7 жыл бұрын

Iubesc, de asemenea, tot ce canta si danseaza. La vida es sueño.

And here comes the voice that can calm my nerves. Just what I needed today. Thanks for today's lesson School of life.Best regards from your humble student :)

@PatrickBateman1987

7 жыл бұрын

you're the one who calms their nerves, not something outside of you.

@aaryag5427

7 жыл бұрын

+Timothy Price hmm that's sensible. Well I just need a catalyst I guess and his voice seems to be a good one.

@aaryag5427

7 жыл бұрын

+noel Thanks for the recommendation. I'll surely go through the book

@PatrickBateman1987

7 жыл бұрын

Aaru C here's something that probably won't sound sensible. there is no you to calm your nerves, there are no nerves alone, and there are no catalysts.

@aaryag5427

7 жыл бұрын

+Timothy Price Not sensible for me but it's intriguing. but I may be a little on the not so bright side to get what you mean 😂

"Art awakens us to mysteries we have, too quickly, grown blind to"

Started Dubliners immediately after watching this. Thanks TSOL

Thank you for that performance! It wasn't easy to present a writer such as James Joyce... Your videos are a real step for humanity.

I managed to read Ulysses over this previous summer. Until now, I found it impossible to properly describe my experience with the book, still yet this is partially true, yet this video does a fantastic job of condensing Joyce and his glamour. Of explaining what his books are, what they explore. Thank you for this clear and insightful video on Joyce, and helping his readers and nonreaders alike understand his baffling yet fascinating work.

Do one on Fernando Pessoa please, he is a genius.

@busrabars6279

5 жыл бұрын

Superb video. Thank you. I read Ullesses in college. What puzzled me was here was an ordinary man, doing ordinary things, yet I was not bored by the novel. Joyce magic.

That Irish to Italian flag transition at 2:53 was so smooth. Great video!

"I choose to press into my arms, the loveliness which has not yet come into the world." This quote, more than any other by Joyce, deeply resonates with me as a creative person. Always look ahead, break barriers and find beauty and meaning in places where other people are not looking.

I read A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN in my freshman year in college. It was a great experience - the right book at the right time. Thank you Martin Glass for being my guide.

@jmiquelmb

7 жыл бұрын

Wrong. You should have read the first pages when you were a toddler. Then the first chapter when you were 10. And follow the next chapters once you grew up, until the last ones when you started college ;-)

Shakespeare, Tolstoy and Joyce, the best writers who ever lived...

@Reel___

2 жыл бұрын

Tolkein too

@doyle8120

2 жыл бұрын

don't forget Dante & Goethe & Hugo

@anuranbhattacharya9938

2 жыл бұрын

Dostoevsky moans.

@doyle8120

2 жыл бұрын

@@anuranbhattacharya9938 that's cuz hes gay

@anuranbhattacharya9938

2 жыл бұрын

@@doyle8120 Then Tolstoy is even a greater one.

The way these videos are elucidatory is no less than breathtaking.

It's funny to me how Joyce is often considered advanced, confusing, boring, etc. I remember having to read some of his poetry in high school, and thinking it was fantastic. Why weren't we studying this guy more? And just as quickly, the curriculum never mentioned him again.

@jimbeam-ru1my

Жыл бұрын

James Joyce's schizophrenia hadn't manifested in high school. His earlier writings are much better. If you read his writing in the order it was written- dubliners, a portait of an artist, ulysses, and the wake then you'll see that his career was nothing but a chronical of his descent into madness. There was nothing appealing or admirable about it, the scumbag elites just want us to believe that insanity is better than genius.

"Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, further westwards, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling too upon every part of the lonely churchyard where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead." I love this man!

@sabymoon

5 жыл бұрын

I thought of this last week when Snow was Falling all over Arizona.

@sylvo330

5 жыл бұрын

Love Dubliners...

@lab1.13

5 жыл бұрын

Pensé en el día que nevó en Santiago. Las clases en los colegios se suspendieron. Yo no fui a la oficina. Fui feliz.

@sellout87

4 жыл бұрын

i work on the bog of allen. a different place now than when he wrote it

@mixerD1-

3 жыл бұрын

Cut to Eric Idle....."bring oucha dead.... bring oucha dead..."

The quality of these videos are outstanding . I bow to you the Creator of this channel .

I can keep listening to the voice 25/24h .. mesmerizing

Great video. Joyce is our national hero.

@SMacCuUladh

4 жыл бұрын

Him and Mark McCabe of Manic 2000 fame.

If you have read Ulysses then I'm impressed. That has got to be the most difficult book in the English language. Except for Finnegan's Wake, of course.

@ItsVyy

7 жыл бұрын

Ulysses is probably easier than Gravity's Rainbow to read if you were living in Dublin when it was published, but now you NEED a guide to understand Ulysses whereas GR is just monstrously difficult.

@christjessecuevasmoreno9572

6 жыл бұрын

It's a wonderful book and really fun. Although tedious to read because one might need the aid of annotations and a couple of books but it is really impressive. How joyce plays with the structure of languages and his book is so unique. the key is to not really take it serious.

@thunderpooch

6 жыл бұрын

10:37 I think I heard that in Trainspotting. ;)

@bouaissatoufik3394

6 жыл бұрын

True, Irvin Welsh was deeply influenced by Joyce

@thunderpooch

6 жыл бұрын

Cool, thanks for the neat factoid. I didn't realize he was, but it makes sense.

I learned more about writing my memoir from your videos than from writing class and writers who told me how I should write so I will begin again....

An author whose work i've been meaning to read for a long time now. Great video as always.

Aldous Huxley? Would anyone else be interested in seeing a video on him by this channel?

@franciscoj.deleonalonso4295

5 жыл бұрын

Yes. I would very much appreciate a Huxley video by The School of Life.

@MsLoila

4 жыл бұрын

very much

@wadejameskennedy4495

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@doncar9

4 жыл бұрын

Yip

@waynej2608

3 жыл бұрын

That's a door, I wouldn't mind being opened.

John Lennon read Joyce's works and subscribed to The James Joyce Quarterly journal. He loved Joyce's use of language and the humor in the word mash-ups and puns, such as in "Finnegan's Wake".

@elephantmen5808

7 жыл бұрын

where did you hear that?

@bills48321

7 жыл бұрын

The source was a literary article published by Richard Gerber which talked about the influence of James Joyce and Lewis Carroll on John's writing. The article is titled "Goo Goo Goo Joob!: The John Lennon/James Joyce Connection Through Lewis Carroll’s 'Looking-Glass'". Here's the link: fisherpub.sjfc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=nepca

@elephantmen5808

7 жыл бұрын

Cool, thanks.

@waynej2608

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely. All one needs to do is read John's books, In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works, to see Joyce's influence. 'No Flies, on Fred'! 😎

Fantastic! School of life has been getting better and better since I discovered it over a year ago. It's really wonderful that you share all of this. Think of all the interests you peeked, its things like this that make me love the internet.

I (and others) asked. You delivered. Thank you so much!

Hunter S Thompson deserves a video. His writing style created a new style of journalism and his books marked his quest for the "American Dream" as well as his dedication to mocking the corruption he saw all around. He is also one of the more misunderstood writers and I think the time is right to show everyone what went on in that bizarre mind of his.

Dubliners is such a cool name for a book of small irish stories haha

Keep coming back to this. Great job 👍

My favorite writer. Thank you.

Hemingway, I'd love an Analysis of his writing style

@nmaurok

7 жыл бұрын

yes!!

@maggyfrog

7 жыл бұрын

yes please. the old man and the sea, one of my fav books, and the killers such an awesome short story... i love hemingway's iceberg theory

@pinkmazohyst

7 жыл бұрын

I'd rather they not

@maggyfrog

7 жыл бұрын

***** you don't have to watch the vid if they make it.

@nmaurok

7 жыл бұрын

***** why not?

I love this channel. It would be neat to see a video on Victor Hugo

These are all wonderful. Please keep doing them as you can. Thank you.

HATSOFF TO THE NARRATOR OF THE VIDEOS, YOU BRING THEM TO LIFE! THANKS!

You should do a video on JK Huysmans. Fascinating writer.

I'm loving these videos. I was wondering if you have any plans of analyzing filmmakers? It would be awesome to see School of Life videos for guys like Bergman, Herzog, Tarkovsky, etc.

Wonderful summary of James Joyce’s life and some of his literature!

Just wonderful! Thank you very much.

Damn, the editing in these videos is just getting better and better

You guys are proably drowning in suggestions but a video about Oscar Wilde would be awesome! With all due respect (really, I love and respect what you do), I'm surprised you don't already have one about him. Peace and Love, School of Life!

Yes! Been wanting this for so long!

frankly, the view is profound. At the last, we will find that every literature masterpiece concludes a kind of unique art philosophy. Do you guys think so?

Well presented. Burgess’s ‘A shorter Finnegans Wake’ is full of elucidating commentary. One thing at variance with your interpretation of FW found there: there is a story to FW and it can be told in three sentences though it is hardly what the book is about since to do so needs ‘wideawake’ language and FW is a nocturne expressing the meld of images and languages for those melded images in sleep. The Ballad of Finnegan is simply used for its combination of the ordinary man in the ordinary situation with ordinary habits with the principle of christian resurrection (Fin=End in french; Egan=Again as in the other song Finnegan-Beginnagain.) The ‘wide awake’ story is - a Dublin publican and his wife go to bed where they will make love for the very last time in their married life; a child wakes them up asking for a drink of water; they go back to sleep! (If I remember accurately).

@markhughes7927

4 жыл бұрын

Ron Maimon I report Burgess’s analysis concerning the ‘wide-awake’ story - I could have added that a little branch outside the bedroom keeps tapping the window pane: tp.........tp...........inside the dream story things are akin to what you say with the twins and the little sister....... There is great poetry in the idea of the last carnal embrace of a couple sinking then into the tiredness of the spent energies of the world and the burgeoning world of metaphysic..........there is no spoiler since the exterior situation forms no part of the interior drama - it simply secures the relation between dream and reality, waking and sleep. The book is a Nocturne and Joyce wished to put as much into this different ‘element’ as Shakespeare put into the waking moments of his plays. Another thing that Burgess points out is that in order to account for the range of erudite reference of the Dublin couple Joyce arranges his own - the author’s - dream to encompass theirs. It is worth getting the book ‘A shorter Finnegans Wake’ to see all his other perceptions on the work. If you have issue - take it up with him (later.......) Cheers.

Wow, I was literally sitting and thinking when and who the next LITERATURE video would be about, and here it is.

as a past reader of Joyce, this was a great deep dive!

Can you make a video on HP Lovecraft?

You should do more Irish writers! Wilde and Yeats would be excellent, as well as Beckett, Heaney and Bernard Shaw.

I took a guided tour of Dublin courtesy James Joyce memorial with the guide taking us on the route taken by Bloom in Chapter 8 Lestrygonisns of Ulysses. The journey from O’Connell St through the heart of city centre of Dublin Bloom takes is at lunch time and involves his own lunch. This Chapter is supposed to represent the digestive system of human anatomy and when the route was lined out on a city map, it drew the digestive canal from mouth to colon stretching from the news paper office on and ending at the National Museum opposite Trinity College. Simply astounding! The attempt here to introduce such a complex genius is extraordinarily amazing. 👏👏👏👏

Bravo James Joyce!!! Bravo +School of Life!!! Thank you😘

some cool animations in this one

i absolutely love your channel. it helps with living. one question though: where are non Western writers? I've been waiting on Achebe for a while now. hopefully it's in the works. thanks

@ysabarro333

7 жыл бұрын

I've been wondering about this, too! Thanks for pointing it out :)

@detrockcity3

5 жыл бұрын

You have to start with the greats.

Simply brilliant. Meaning james joyce and this channel.

This video makes me thankful for James Joyce because I love Japanese slice of life shows. Nobody does slice of life better than the Japanese. I'm not talking about anime even though those are good also when I mean Japanese dramas. They take ordinary people doing ordinary jobs and they make it interesting and beautiful honestly watching slice of life Japanese shows can be heartwarming and relaxing and they just give you a sense of peace.

Instead of going to grad school I read Ulysses.

@the_most_ever_company

7 жыл бұрын

Same, twice Didn't work, I start at Wal-Mart next week Learning web development though, sick of being poor

@About2Crash

7 жыл бұрын

Just don't be like Stephen Dedalus and dawdle and drink away your genius. Be more like Bloom and go to work!

Nice work! I hope "Borges" and "Poe" are on your list.

I love james joyce work.I have read all his books and find there are easy to follow,Why say that James joyce story are so deep,so if you are deep person read his books will come easy for you.Well working on book that is very deep story lines.I think as human we need that to continue on reading.

Epitome of an iconoclastic literary genius!

Will you ever make a video about Salinger?

Consider Jorge Luis Borges for a future installment, please!

@ruvstof

4 жыл бұрын

I prefer Borges.

You guys are truly amazing! My fav channel!

This is and always will be the best youtube channel ever❤

is there any way I can donate for the creators of this channel? I already have some of your books. but I do love, adore, and resoect your work and what we you are doing. thank you so much. I learn a lot better than majoring in English and Philosophy in college.

@wgo523

7 жыл бұрын

I would be very interested in the decision not to go the very popular patreon/crowdfunding route?

@dgrech

7 жыл бұрын

I would too.

@therealdrag0

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I don't want to buy stuff.

@jiajiachen7492

5 жыл бұрын

Lunicorn M.S. me too

can you do one on william faulkner?

Thank you so much!

Wow, love this review of Joyce the first time. ❤️

Nora : ah he is another piece of shit. *falls in love with him anyway*

These comments are painful to read.

@Quinefan

5 жыл бұрын

Alexander DeLarge Why?

@shhs1227

5 жыл бұрын

Joyce’s love letters are also painful to read

Brilliant writer. I love his style.

@vehement-critic_q8957

7 жыл бұрын

MrZanctum James Joyce is a realist modernist writer. His writings reflect the evolution of Dublin. If you read his collection of short stories Dubliners, you'll recognise that. A lot of readers accuse him and his stories that they don't contain a plot or a climax as if the events are like everyday life nothing nevel to add, but his short stories are full of epiphanies; sudden realisations. The plot of the story is circled around the conflicts of the mindset. How the effect of breaking routine is bringing to the human psyche its full consciousness when the implications of that deviation are unexpected. This emphasises the theme of paralysis and change. You look for these things in James Joyce's works and you will begin to immerse yourself in the narrative. Besides, James himself confirms that plot doesn't matter to be included in fiction which is confusing to some readers including me tbh. I read a couple of stories from his collection Dubliners and there were nothing spectacular. The work is restricted to target a certain readership in a particular period of time; it's not meant to be as Shakespeare's or other literary agents whose works imply a universal appeal as in canonical or classical works such as Les Miserables, Etc. So that would be a waste of time if you read it as an entertaining yourself and even if you would like to be instructed, it would encourage you to be static and not think of change or a dramatic one because the consequences will be not as expected. James Joyce as a nationalist writer might appeal to readers, but as a global one it's difficult for readers who are not familiar with the context of his works. I wonder why would they reward him as well recognised writer for such meaningless works with no plot or goals or entertaining stuff worthy to read.

please, do make more videos on literature. i find them highly educational and worthy.

Keep up the Irish literature. Oscar Wilde next!

i Dont read books, i just watch videos about books.

@stiglarsen543

7 жыл бұрын

why?

@brunofranco4416

7 жыл бұрын

Stig larsen History lesson.

@stiglarsen543

7 жыл бұрын

you should still read it is good for you 😊

@3rdcoastnyucka

7 жыл бұрын

Refer to this comment when you realize you aren't a very interesting or intelligent person.

@brunofranco4416

7 жыл бұрын

3rdcoastnyucka Yup

I'm in love with your channel, School of Life! Especially your videos regarding Literature and Eastern Philosophy. I have a request: I'd be ecstatic if you made a video or videos featuring Beat writers like Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Borroughs.

Fantastic presentation

this could all be a lie, I would have no way of knowing

@sedditguy1836

7 жыл бұрын

True that

@pilotstyle123

7 жыл бұрын

How do you know you are not dreaming right now?

@pikminhero

7 жыл бұрын

Alright Descartes

@holdencaulfield4752

7 жыл бұрын

+pilotstyle123 I think therefore I am.. Cogito Ergo Sum... That's why

@Tormentality

7 жыл бұрын

Tempelton Amor lmao

when will the school of life cover Shakespeare?

I just love how he says "Since I fed the BIRDS" and "Maaaaaah"

amazing video on James Joyce!

The problem with Joyce is that of exhaustion due to the difficulty of grasping the meanings of his creations and his disconnections with meaningless language disconnected with his creation of whatever manifests from his brain and sensations....who wants... to figure... it all...out?

@thanhnguyenminh4704

3 жыл бұрын

Duart Maclean Enthusiasts! After you have successfully understood what he wrote, it's like solving a difficult puzzle and you feel accomplished. That's the joy enthusiasts get when someone asks them why they need to make efforts to do that

William Faulkner, please.

Thank you for this video!

WONDERFUL THANK YOU

You should do Vladimir Nabokov next

@vicomtedevalmont1073

4 жыл бұрын

My absolute favorite forever. And my hero. However, he would probably spit on my writing.

do Jack Kerouac please!! :D

I have been thinking about these type of things lately, the stream of consciousness - How rapid and impulsive our though shuffle through our minds the inner world of all our routine thought patters and emotions and visions, its fascinating. Its good perspective to zoom in on.

“Eveline” from Dubliners is one of my favorites.

When I hear this intro, I'm waiting for "Kelly, can you handle this..." 😓

Are you planning on doing any Latin American writer? I feel like Jorge Luis Borges would be very appropiate, even if you only do one from Latin America He was a genius (and is considered part of the western canon, too).

....and here comes another fascinating video.

I love the literature videos!

please do Thomas Pynchon !

@uniquechannelnames

4 жыл бұрын

You mean a 1 minute video lol. Kidding of course, his books offer a lot. But his personal life, not so much.

@PiroKUSS

3 жыл бұрын

I second this!