A Room With a View is a Young Person's Novel | Zadie Smith | TIFF 2017

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[@vaughnjames397]

Her brain, the way she thinks, is astoundingly beautiful.

[@myemailaccount3046]

Vaughn James really are you serious?

[@HomeAtLast501]

@@myemailaccount3046 Sounds like a pseudo-intellectual comment. I've been listening to a lot of interviews with her, and a lot of the comments are like this. It's people who really don't know what they're talking about trying to sound intelligent. It gets tiring. The key questions to ask this person to see if they really are sincere are to ask (1) what are the various ways one can think, and which of those categories does her thinking fall into, and (2) what makes her way of thinking beautiful? What are the criteria for beauty?

[@HomeAtLast501]

I mean, all she did was talk about why she liked a novel.

[@lornawanjera3541]

A mind that thinks beautifully makes arguments and idea connections that are unprecedented. Art

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

@@HomeAtLast501 She is a seven time, award winning novelist, essay writer and tenure track professor in Ivy League and OxBridge institutions. You are just a triggered racist.

[@jordanh7359]

cecil as a proto-hipster is such a good take! this interview led me to read ARWAV and the emotions that novel stirred in me have been unrivaled for quite some time, thank you zadie smith and the yt algorithm

[@eamongilligan3262]

I read this book for the first time three weeks ago and thought it was beautiful. I'm 42. Maybe I'm young at heart? ☺ Perhaps this is unfair, but when I listened to Smith here, I got this strange feeling she might be someone who loves the book but is frightened that her credentials will be called into question if she admits that too freely, if you get me? The academic world sometimes really seems to suck the joy out of things.

[@jamilabrown6093]

DDL even looks like a hipster in that movie. And I did feel bad for Cecil too.

[@mumr4268]

Not true...I'm 73 and love it and also my sister in her 50's!!!

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

Hon, that's two ppl. You are not universal.

[@paulinegallagher1675]

@@lizziebkennedy7505 What a rude thing to say! I have dozens of friends and family members, all over 50, who love A Room With A View. How foolish and judgemental for a writer to describe and dismiss Forster's romantic and very funny Edwardian masterpiece as 'A young person's book'. A hundred years from now few readers of any age will be expressing joy in regard to any of Zadie's oeuvre.

[@chrismill5303]

@@paulinegallagher1675 or maybe she meant forster's work would have greater impact on the young. on the other hand, it's strange to me how "cerebral" people look down on his ideas and philosophy but celebrate his technical skill. i feel they disagree with him not because he was wrong, but because they prefer the intricate muddle to the beautifully simple.

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

Hipster as aesthetic life.

[@mirianalajtman7728]

Bitter Bitter women by their own doings.... awful....have they never fallen in trapping desperate love? "Only one thing is impossible...to love and to part"...empty idiotic things she's rambling about with pride . I wish well for them to experience nonsensical romance in their lives!

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

Try to write your ravings in sentences.