Women in Modern Greek Literature

[@MichaelSlovin]

One of your very finest videos. Thank you.

[@SherdsTube]

Thanks so much for saying so.

[@michaelmcgee335]

You have a remarkably soothing voice.

[@SherdsTube]

Ha! Thank you.

[@ForrestAguirre]

Beautiful. When I visited the UK a few years back, I bought an M.R. James volume in Oxford - which probably made the Canbridge-ite spin in his grave. I also bought Machen's absolutely amazing Hill of Dreams on our visit to Hay-on-Wye, Wales, not far from "the source". I tried to buy "Asterix and the Goths" in German while in Germany and Austria, but for some odd reason, I found ALL the Asterix books in German except that one. I can't imagine why that was? 😄

[@jukka.r.2067]

Another great video. I found especially the first two books interesting. I've only managed to match the book to the current season.

[@SherdsTube]

Thanks so much! What did you match to the season?

[@jukka.r.2067]

@@SherdsTube I thought of Donna Tartt's the secret history, but then remembered it spans several seasons.

[@priyankadubey1418]

bit late - but finally today watched the whole video ....delicate, sensitive work as always Sam ! And i agree with you on the significance of locations while reading. I love to carry along the books that are close to while traveling. I keep boarding passes in-between the pages like a book mark. There is one particular book - the diary of hindi language novelist nirmal verma- which i have carried with me across continents. I think it also plays a role in developing your own relationship with the book.

[@SherdsTube]

Thanks so much, Priyanka. I love that - like little stamps in the book's passport. :) I think you may have mentioned Nirmal Verma to me before. I must try to track down some translations. Thanks for your support, as ever!

[@jmoran231]

Excellent. One of my stranger reading experiences occurred in 2014 during a long flight layover in Boston. We had stopped at the Boston Public Library to view its John Singer Sargent murals, but in fact spent most of our time in the Abbey Room, where Edward Austin Abbey's Grail Cycle paintings are installed. While there, I noted a plaque-or some other notice-explaining that the ceiling of the room was a replica of that of the library in the Doge's Palace in Venice. Later, seated in the library's main reading room, I opened W. G. Sebald's Vertigo-which I often reread when I'm travelling-and happened to be just on the page that recounts Franz Grillparzer's sense of uncanny terror at the Doge's Palace-"Trotz aller Zierlichkeit der Kunst in seinen Arkaden und Zinnen habe, so schreibt er, der Dogenpalast einen unförmlichen Körper und erinnere ihn an ein Krokodil [...] Geheimnisvoll, unerschütterlich und hart müsse sein, was hier beschlossen wird, meint er und nennt den Palast ein steinernes Rätsel. Die Natur dieses Rätsels ist anscheinend das Grauen, denn solang er in Venedig ist, kommt Grillparzer von dem Gefühl des Unheimlichen nicht mehr los."-and afterward Casanova's own imprisonment and escape. I would say that a disjunction between text and environment can also engender reading experiences of an intensity that could never have been predicted or produced intentionally: sinking into the proto-cinematic phantasmagoria of Flaubert's Salammbô on a sweltering evening in the hard bed of an overcrowded and dirty Berlin hostel, or reading Philip K Dick's Martian Time-Slip on a cold, rainy morning in the swamp behind my house in early lock down.

[@SherdsTube]

Thanks so much. And for sharing this! It's good reminder to return to Vertigo, which I haven't read for year. That's such a great point. You're completely right, and you express it so evocatively.

[@lukevollar7796]

A great video . Reading dhalgren on my Turkish all inclusive holiday is proving to be a strange mix

[@SherdsTube]

Thanks a lot! Ha, it does sound like an interesting mix! Dhalgren sort of makes the real world dissolve, doesn't it?

[@maddssmithy]

I'm so glad I found your channel. I've been watching booktubers for a while so it's nice when I find a somewhat small channel like this that uploads great analysis and thoughts on literature.

[@SherdsTube]

Very happy to have you! Thanks for the kind words.

[@tompeaks2]

I remember reading "under the volcano" on a unmade bed in the midst of one the hottest summer, right after a short and feeble flu... i think my white tanktop is still sweaty.... thank you for your videos.

[@SherdsTube]

Oof they sound like perfectly imperfect conditions in which to read Under the Volcano. My pleasure, Tommaso.

[@angelorossowrites]

Another brilliant video. Thanks so much!

[@SherdsTube]

Thanks ever so much for saying so, Angelo!

[@pdmuhich]

The only one that comes to mind, is when I read Ballard's _Hello America_ during an ill-fated stay in Las Vegas.

[@maddssmithy]

Good idea to read authors of the country that you are visiting. I think I will remember to do that next time I take a trip. Thank you for these thoughts on these books. I look forward to checking them out.

[@SherdsTube]

Yes, it's one of my favourite things to do when I travel. Hope you enjoy the books!

[@drytoasts]

Wonderful. You have a way of making each text seem unmissable. I should be more intentional about forming the same reading habit when traveling - - I did, though, re-read Mary Butts' short story "Mappa Mundi" a few times before and during my last trip to Paris, with haunting results.

[@SherdsTube]

Thanks so much. I'll need to try that combo next time I go to Paris. :)

[@ForrestAguirre]

Mary Butts is one of the more criminally-under-known writers in all of literature.

[@ThomasSarantos]

The Murderess has just been released as a critically acclaimed film. I hope it gets a wide international release.

[@SherdsTube]

Wow - I had no idea! I'd love to see that. Thanks for letting me know.

[@sherryfyman7066]

Sam - Didn’t you discuss The Rings of Saturn recently? I can’t find it. I’m reading the book now and loving it and would love to listen again to your thoughts. Thanks.

[@SherdsTube]

Yes! I discussed it very briefly in my first video - 'The Tyranny of Plot'.

[@sherryfyman7066]

@@SherdsTube That's it! I'll go back to it. Thanks.

[@BenjaminOrthodox]

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[@dominikmackovic5453]

No flowers on your hat?

[@SherdsTube]

Haha! Now that you mention it I feel very left out :(

[@leosharman8630]

Disgusting!