The books are: Sterne: Tristram Shandy The Thousand and One Nights Joyce: Ulysses Swift: Gulliver's Travels Dickens: Great Expectations Borges: Ficciones Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude Grass: The Tin Drum Calvino: Our Ancestors Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita

@adhominemsis-t.australisensis

4 жыл бұрын

You forgot Robinson Crusoe

@anuradhainamdar8967

4 жыл бұрын

Have Lawrence sterne " Trinstan Shandy". Charles Dickens " Great expectations ". are some books from this list that I have read.

@oliverbennett00

4 жыл бұрын

@@adhominemsis-t.australisensis he only mentions Robinson Crusoe to provide a contextual comparison for Gulliver's Travels; (similarly, he mentions Clarissa in juxtaposition to Tristram Shandy). So neither form part of his "greatest book" list themselves

@jimhen459

Жыл бұрын

i would add a few-- but I agree with the list as far as anti-realism is an analytical tool.

@arkaprabhmandal1248

10 ай бұрын

for some reason, I have completely moved away from Anglican literature. While I do agree with most of his shelf, I do wonder why it doesn't have any European or Oriental titles....

(Edit 6th April 2023: Watched for a second time and was still blown away! Had to stand up and clap afterwards!) Wow! What a great lecture that was! Blown away!

I listened to the lecture (yes that is what it was and a much needed one, for I wanted to know more about Sir Rushdie. And now I'm going to reading some of the books that I've put off for the longest time and those that I had never heard of before. This was really great. Thank you for the upload.❤️❤️❤️

This is such a great talk. I wish I listen to him speak in real life. Gonna read some of these books.

It would seem that no one in the audience has read any of the books that Mr Rushdie has been talking about - thus the fascinating details of their origin(s) and his humourous sidebars seem to be unappreciated.

@graham6132

Жыл бұрын

That’s a great excuse for having your jokes bomb.

@TheGuinever

9 ай бұрын

This is because education, in so many places, has been watered down so severely and so frequently replaced with ENTERTAINMENT (partly due to the decrease in average attention span), that there is no longer such thing as the TYPICALLY well-read gentleman or gentlewoman or gentleperson. Literate comedians probably avoid references to novels and poetry because they know audiences these days won't recognize them and the jokes will fall flat. The US elected someone who cannot quote one verse of the Bible, and liberal education is thought (by about a third of adults) to be elitist and unnecessary. You might have noticed all of the proofreaders seem to have disappeared, also. Literacy is apparently too time consuming and too expensive for the vast majority of us to pursue. (This helps explain the absence of critical thinking skills.) But rest assured; there's always money for bombs. 😢 I just hope Rushdie is able to confront his attacker in court. After all the hiding out, the exile and all those safety measures during the fatwa, some impertinent twit has the nerve to do what Matar did! Make the kid read every published word Rushdie has written, FROM PRISON, and make him write an assessment! I'm so angry, still.

How on earth this video has only 31K views! ( 27.03.24)

Nice... I missed the lecture live, but it is good to be able to see it here.

“midnight’s children” is on my list

Thank you for the post.

Fun speaker, obsessive, intelligent

He is my Heero

Emory must seriously consider introducing some background laughter

I wish they had flashed on the screen the names of ten books Salman commends. I missed the name and the author of he Japanese novel recommended by Knopf.

@nickzanet

4 жыл бұрын

In case you're still looking 8 months later, it was "The Makioka Sisters" by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

@sattarabus

4 жыл бұрын

@@nickzanet Thank you for having been a reader with a catholic taste.

32:49 In another interview, Rushdie discusses reminiscing to his mother the family's consternation over China's incursion into India when he was a schoolboy. His mother says he's misremembering because he was away at boarding school in England at the time, which Rushdie concedes and uses to illustrate a broader point about false memories becoming reality. So call me a cynic for doubting his disavowal of García Márquez as an influence for Midnight's Children.

Still having trouble understanding how Matar could plead ng.

Fiction is, as a method of revelation by creative enquiry, real and in a way true to human condition.

I can't get mine.

Wow! The audience seems to be dead!

@ianmartinezcassmeyer

2 жыл бұрын

They're not well miked, that's probably why we can hear their reaction.

Re first few minutes: Great Expectations isn't deemed realistic fiction? I haven't read it but am surprised to hear that.

@RollingWug

4 жыл бұрын

Having read it, Dickens’s narrative doesn’t try to keep itself in a realm that bears to reality. In fact it repeatedly challenges what is real and what is believed to be so. Nothing overtly fantastical or surreal explicitly happens (the opposite in fact, the novel is situated in a realistic Kent and London) but the line between what the characters understand to be true and what actually is, are deliberately blurred throughout. The way Pip is convinced the world ‘is’, and indeed how he has made his way through it, are definitely detached from what’s actually happening. In this way, as an exploration of the tension between reality and belief or understanding, I think Rushdie speaks of Great Expectations as more contemporary. Modern(ism) is muddled for the reader and happily so, I think at least that’s what he’s getting at more or less. Maybe ?

@inafern

3 жыл бұрын

@@RollingWug very interesting, thanks

14:40

It's ironic that Rushdie ends his talk on his top ten books, all anti-realist, by commending an ultra-realist book as being better than Anna Karenina. But, I appreciate his commentary on his ten more than the list itself, which he knows to be largely arbitrary.

What is his religion now any onetellme

@guharup

2 жыл бұрын

He has been atheist since Rugby. No religion

@arjitas

Жыл бұрын

Does it really matter?

@prakharmathur5737

Жыл бұрын

Not Stupidity, that's for sure

I loved the lecture and his sense of humor, but it doen't seem the audience did. Pity.

@rigzingurmet8218

2 жыл бұрын

The setting being more of a class room one donot clap nor whistle but then laughs were badly missed

Didn't Molly Bloom just have one affair? With "Blazes" Boylan?

Isssssslammmmmm, the religion of Peace?

@Faseeh626

2 жыл бұрын

He's not a Muslim

@Slowhiker-xw2kp

2 жыл бұрын

@@Faseeh626 Who's not a Muslim?

@Faseeh626

2 жыл бұрын

@@Slowhiker-xw2kp Salman Rushdie and Me

@guharup

2 жыл бұрын

Peace of the graveyard more like

@samyako9701

Жыл бұрын

😂 religion of kill go haven 72 vergens. Sex with kids and guys. Religion of peace 🤣

Rushdie may sound smart but he really is not. I think this audience may see that.

@greenjupiter

2 жыл бұрын

🤣 🤣

@user-bk9fk2tq2z

16 күн бұрын

Why do you think that Salman is not smart?

@user-bk9fk2tq2z

16 күн бұрын

I just want to let you know that he studied in King's College in Cambridge University.

Sorry but he provided too much explanation. He bored me to death. I wish he would have been more succinct and listed the books more readily.

@oscarrch

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you were bored. Hope still are.

@guharup

2 жыл бұрын

@@oscarrch No he is dead now. Read carefully.