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Old Roots, New Shoots We Go to Yet Another Ten Great Writers Video for Virginia Woolf’S Mrs D. Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) Old Roots, New Shoots We go to yet another Ten Great Writers video for Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Like Ulysses, it follows its protagonist around a capital city in the course of a single day. Like Proust, Woolf is concerned with the interpenetration of past and present. Like Modernist artists in other media, she structures her work more in terms of musical harmony and counterpoint than through the mechanics of literal plot. Video: Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway” (1987, with Eileen Atkins as Woolf, Susan Tracy as Mrs. Dalloway, and John Castle as Peter Walsh) Wayne McGregor: Woolf Works (2015 ballet triptych for the Royal Ballet, with Alessandra Ferri and Federico Bonelli, with music by Max Richter) http://www.brunyate.com/roootsshoots/ [email protected] 9. Inner Voices Inner Voices B. James Joyce (1882–1941) We shall concentrate entirely on Joyce’s Ulysses, published in Paris in 1922, but banned in English-speaking countries for many years on FOUR COUNTRIES, FOUR WRITERS. Marcel Proust published the grounds of obscenity. Most of the excerpts come from a 1987 video first volume of his masterpiece In Search of Lost Time in 1913; documentary in the series Ten Great Writers of the Modern World. James Joyce published Dubliners in 1914, and Franz Kafka and The book is a rough mapping of Homer’s onto the streets of Dublin, Virginia Woolf published their first major fiction in 1915. portraying a day in the life of its central character Leopold Bloom, a During the decade that followed, while Proust was rushing to Jewish salesman tormented by his wife Molly’s affair with a concert promoter called Blazes Boylan. The second major character is Joyce’s complete the remaining six volumes, Joyce and Kafka would alter ego Stephen Dedalus from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young write the breakthrough works that define them, Ulysses and The Man. The day is 16 June 1904, Joyce’s first date with the hotel maid Trial, and Woolf was clearing the way forTo the Lighthouse and Nora Barnacle. who eventually became his wife. Mrs. Dalloway. Each of these works involves new ways of telling Video: James Joyce’s “Ulysses” (1987, with David Suchet as a story, each of them treats time in new and flexible ways, and Bloom, John Lynch as Stephen, and Sorcha Cusack as Molly) most importantly each of them explores that quintessentially Bloom (2004 film by Sean Walsh): from Molly Bloom’s closing Modernist subject: the inner world of the mind. rb. soliloquy (Angeline Ball as Molly) C. Franz Kafka (1883–1924) A. Marcel Proust (1871–1922) We look at the only fiction of any length that Kafka published in his lifetime, the novellaMetamorphosis (1914). In an effort to throw light Proust’s taste of a tea-soaked madeleine teases out the most famous on the intent of his work, whether social or personal, we will also skein of memories in literature: memories that span a wide web of look at two things he did not intend to publish: a letter accusing his French society; memories that involve intense and private emotions; father of psychological abuse, and his novel The Trial. Once again, and memories that intertwine with a world of music and painting and many of the clips come from the Ten Great Writers series. the act of writing itself. Arthur Pita: The Metamorphosis (2011 dance drama for the Royal Video: Marcel Proust: a Writer’s Life (Yale, 2013), opening Ballet, with Edward Watson as Gregor Samsa, and music Proust: Swann’s Way, the “madeleine” passage translated by composed and played by Frank Moon) CK Scott-Moncrieff and read by Tom Hiddleston Kafka: Metamorphosis, excerpts translated by Richard Stokes and Time Regained (1999 film by Raul Ruiz, with Marcello Mazzarella read by Benedict Cumberbatch as Marcel, with Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, John Kafka: A Letter to My Father, translated by Howard Colyer, Malkovich, and others) adapted and performed by Larry Cedar Video: Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” (1987, with Tim Roth as Franz Kafka / Joseph K.) .
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