Je me souviens d'avoir étudié "Inconnu à cette adresse" par Kressmann Taylor quand j'étais à l'école ! C'est une lecture qui m'a profondément marqué ! Je note précieusement les auteurs autrichiens évoqués. Je trouve que la littérature germanophone est assez mal connue en France ! D'ailleurs, à part Von Hofmannsthal je ne connais pas du tout les autres ! C'est super intéressant que l'université intègre les études coloniales au cursus de lettres : un incontournable selon moi est "L'orientalisme" d'Edward Saïd.

it's going to be fine! just give it time😊

Interesting that Plato disliked literature because it doesn’t tell the truth but preferred it to display people as they should be ideally, not as they TRULY are - ?

Can you put a hyperlink to your kofi account

Thank you for this video! I'm also starting a Uni course in a week, and while I didnt leave my country, I did move to a new city and its quite overwhelming and scary at times. So thanks a lot for giving me strength :)

Such a wasted opportunity not to study Proust in France...that would be like going to England and not studying Jane Austen or Shakespeare

What kind of pen do you use?😊

What an adventure. The music is very enjoyable (appreciate the screenshot added in the video). It is such a great (appreciated) burden to take all these courses and have the time to include such a stylized vlog. This sounds like this is going to be a real challenge. I hope you keep in mind: 1. What are you doing this for? 2. Who do you hope to become when you're finished?

I think you are doing great. 😊 Good luck and enjoy your journey. 📚📖🎓

This sounds very on par with my study abroad experiences, the first couple of weeks can be SO exhausting. But it's like a baptism by fire, it's surprising how fast you then adapt to the new environment. All of a sudden you will be wondering where your crazy new language skills came from. So take care of yourself and relax when you need to, soon you'll be running around Paris like a local!

정말로 진짜 예쁘세요 😍❤️👍

Always here for u Maria

So, is it just 1 semester or a full year in France?

¿What made you listen to the milonga? Greets from argentina

I have just watched this video, and found it interesting, insightful, and enlightening. Subsequently I took a look at the topics for your other posts. I look forward to setting aside some time to consider a few more. Thank you Maria, keep them coming.

going abroad and leaving behind familiarity to study is so exciting and daunting! i studied abroad in the uk and even though there wasn’t a language barrier, it was wild how much harder everything is when you are truly on your own in another country and navigating an unfamiliar academic bureaucracy. all that to say, there is no one right way to study abroad :) thanks for sharing your experience from your first week!

How old are you?

How old are you? ❤

You're so erudite and what a charming pendant.

Les Français sont bien connus pour parler vite et la bureaucratie française pour être très lourde. Courage!

You look thoroughly enchanting and beautiful as usual xx

جامعة السوربون حيث يدرس واسيني الاعرج

Perhaps it is appropriate that you do the Proust courses in your second or even third semester as your French will be much more up to speed by then?

Do not despair, you'll get there! X

Hello dear Maria!!! I really feel for you as I listen to you describing your difficult and frustrating week! Whew!!! 🥺 I'm sure that you will adapt quickly, though, and I hope you will find some really great courses!!! I admire your courage and persistance, and sense of adventure!!! I'm sending you a warm hug from Costa Rica! 💚🦋💚🦋💚

Disappointment is one of Proust's great themes, so you are preparing yourself for his views on that. But I hope things get better for you soon. Is 'The Myth of Sisyphus' a set text, or are you just reading that on your own - another set of comments on the disappointments of life.

My days at the Uni still make me shudder and make me pine for my relatively placid days as a janitor.

So many new challenges at the same time--I'd be overwhelmed as well. Some thoughts tho -- do they videotape their courses and make them available to students? If not, can you videotape or just audio tape? Do they have study groups you can go to? If not, maybe ask around and start your own? These suggestions come from my heart and hope they don't add more stress. Big hugs sent your way. You got this. 🥰🍀🎈

Lit studies in Paris? Closest I came was graduate studies in Montréal (and I'm still here)... Best of luck with this. And I have some reading to do... 📚 📖 📙 📘 🎒

Great lighting!

I have always been on the literary side academically speaking. However I chose to pursue physics at university, for two years. I stopped eventually. I thought I would just take a gap year and figure out the rest as I go along. However this summer, I started a free online course from Harvard university on World Literature. Just to do something with my days. I loved it so much. I got curious and looked for more insights on the subject on KZbin. I stumbled upon your channel! I am glad I did. It was at that moment I fully realised I had to continue education and go back to square one and study English literature. In fact I don’t think I have ever made a decision with such certainty in my life. I thought it would be fun to share how little, random events brought me to your channel. Enjoy your studies in Paris! Watching from the South, with love 🇫🇷🥖

Your video reminds me that a normal, interesting and positive life is possible. I really need this reminder right now so I don't go crazy. Yesterday, the Russian army again bombed civilians in our place: three drones were purposefully sent to a hospital, and another to a residential building. As a result, 9 civilians died and 21 were injured. I don't know if I will live, so I hasten to thank you for this great video! As you can see, your video brings me some peace. Thank you and greetings from Ukraine!

Love this vibe, Maria. Makes me miss my time at uni and also my time in Paris! Thanks for taking me back there through your serene video! C’est incroyable 👌

lovely vlog Maria! You're doing so well and I hope things will get a little more relaxed for you soon. You also look so pretty and I love your necklace! Where did you get it?

Thank you for sharing ❤🌿

I suppose I should read Proust then.

Good luck on your new journey.. everything gonna be alright dear❤

Hello! Love your channel as a girl in her early 20s and may i ask you how do you found your studies and travels? because i would also love to have a second uni adventure in my 30s but unfortunately financing such a thing seems like a dream now. Anyway, sending lots of love and wishing you luck for the upcoming semester

Could you make a video in French? 😊 really enjoy your videos

Good luck on your literary journey!!! Were you listening to a “milonga”? That’s fantastic. It’s a typical sound from my corner of the world, el Río de la Plata.

I think that you should head off to Shakespeare & Co bookshop and you'll meet someone who might help you. I once sat in a Sorbonne lecture on biology. I found the intensity fascinating. The philosophy bookshop is great. Proust is best studied in a cafe and the avenue of study determined by the interactions with moments of being, a glass of wine, and a hearty reading of John Ruskin :-)

Would very much like to know where the view, at the end, is looking towards, as per the compass?

Hey Marcel Proust fan girl🧡I can't say I've drunken 🍷while studying, but kudos to you! I'll stick to my smoothies thank you 😆 And yes the language barrier, nothing can really prepare you for that. You're now finding yourself on the deep end, just have to manage to stay afloat while soaking it all in ☑That's why some people decide to participate in cultural immersion programs before taking up their degrees. You seem to be handling the experience quite well. The course on artificial intelligence and writing sounds super interesting and up to date.Keep it up👍

You just need time to adjust ❤ you'll be alright! & I hope you get my gift 🎁

Robert Louis Stevenson's _The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde_ has ascended to a place of particular veneration in my personal literary pantheon, not merely due to its deft narrative construction, but owing to the labyrinthine intricacies with which it dissects the protean dualities embedded in the human psyche. The juxtaposition of the decorous, ostensibly benevolent Dr. Jekyll and his nefarious doppelgänger, Mr. Hyde, is not simply a portrayal of moral bifurcation; rather, it is an allegorical treatise on the ontological fragmentation and the inexorable disintegration of the human subject under the weight of its own repressed, subterranean instincts. The novella's brevity belies the depth of its philosophical inquiry, and therein lies its genius: Stevenson encapsulates the precarious equilibrium between societal veneer and primal chaos in a narrative that oscillates between gothic horror and existential musing, thus rendering it an object of inexhaustible fascination for those who, like myself, find joy in the tortuous corridors of human nature’s latent complexities. Each revisitation reveals new strata of meaning, drawing me inexorably into its vertiginous depths of moral ambivalence and psychological dissonance.

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It’d be great if you could record the meeting and share with us. Paris is quite far from İstanbul ❤

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Hallo, Ich habe auch für 5 Semester Komparatistik als Zweitstudium in Wien studiert, bis ich für einen PhD in meinem Hauptfach ins Ausland gegangen bin. Dein Video was so eine tolle Erinnerung daran, wie sehr ich dieses Studium geliebt habe. Vielleicht sollte ich es doch noch fertig machen ;) Genieß die Zeit und viel Erfolg! 😊

I'm studying English Literature in France as well ! ❤