An interview with Ursula K. Le Guin by TVAP (The Video Access Project) / The Creative Outlet, Inc.
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@squamish42447 ай бұрын
I wrote to her in 2016, telling her how much I loved the Earthsea Cycle. I wasn't expecting her to reply at age 86, and as such a well-known author, but she was kind enough to do so. She passed away two years later. I'll keep that letter forever!
@fullmetal-animator4 жыл бұрын
You can tell that as enthusiastic as she is for her writing, there is a healthy dose of cynicism behind it all that keeps it in check and she definitely has the intelligence to back it up. This is a fine balance that I seldom see in many other writers these days. I only wish I still had a chance to tell her this someday.
@chickenspy18544 жыл бұрын
To me, that cynicism always charmed me in her writing. Those small moments when characters question the sound logic of their companions with their own more widely accepted logic, and their eyes are opened by a new perspective. Questioning the logic of what is accepted in society, even among those you consider friends allows us to see when something's wrong. I feel like this is especially true right now (June 2020), where much of what Le Guin wrote about and criticized is coming to light once again in the States.
@europa_bambaataa7 ай бұрын
I get the same impression from the introduction to Left Hand Of Darkness. She's kind of snarky, but pretty cultured
@user-ni3or4hw8q3 жыл бұрын
I love her way of speaking. she seems to have no mask
@gastonrijo93913 жыл бұрын
No COVID yet
@generalironbeak12003 жыл бұрын
Just like how she writes imo :)
@user-ni3or4hw8q3 жыл бұрын
@@gastonrijo9391 lol
@ryneallen5163 Жыл бұрын
It was fucking lovely I had a cup of coffee and watched this and I felt like I was just in the room. I could almost smell the interviewers perm. ❤
@carolynclitheroe35882 ай бұрын
Mushroom coffee?
@Minny_of_Earthsea8 ай бұрын
As a mother who always wanted to write, this is perfect to hear. What a beautiful talented woman.
@davistalhone94825 жыл бұрын
I'm watching all her interviews in reverse order for some reason. It's like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
@Danlovar4 жыл бұрын
Your next step will be to read a novel from the last page to the first.
@alexandernagel82054 жыл бұрын
Davis Talhone I’ve been doing the same thing with Susan Sontag
@danielledibenedetto4905 Жыл бұрын
Elder Le Guin's embodiment--and my god, the way she communicates to the interviewer with silence and her eyes--is soothing to my bones. To let it go down and transform and come back up.
@stephanierodriguez316011 ай бұрын
2 people can do 3 jobs but a single person can't do 2
@mischiefner Жыл бұрын
I came here after reading The Left Hand of Darkness, one of the best fiction books I've read in my life so far. I love her writing, and I love this interview. She left an amazing legacy in this world.
@thelostcosmonaut55554 жыл бұрын
She’s so confident. I can’t wait to start on The Left Hand Of Darkness and then move onto the Earthsea series!
@basbrain4 жыл бұрын
Weird coincidence to see this comment only 6 hours after it was posted, but I wanna tell you that you're going to have a great time with the left hand of Darkness. It's such a good read
@nishanthpeters1395 Жыл бұрын
She seems like a lovely woman and someone that i could talk to forever in a warm and lively way for hours.
@MrSwinefuzz3 жыл бұрын
I've never read her. I don't read fantasy hardly ever and I don't know why I watched this video TBH. But I really liked her and now I feel I need to give her a try.
@nelhed3587 Жыл бұрын
Did you end up reading her? She's so good but also what a pleasant personality
@GH05TM0V3R7 ай бұрын
she is up there with clarke heinlien aasimov and dick. the lathe of heaven, the left hand of darkness, the beginning place, always coming home and very far away from everything else are timeless classics!
@itstoogooditswaytoogood32113 жыл бұрын
this is great. the interviewer makes this unique not only in her homely personality but she comes across as good faith, as a sort of genuine fan and layman with her own ideas, but still aware she's a layman. "and people who are watching can see that a creative personality is kind of fun to be, i think you might say that?" is such a cute and authentic way to end the interview.
@SourovKabirII2 жыл бұрын
true. love your articulation.
@maheshwaranp39465 ай бұрын
This is crazy. I haven't read a single book of hers. I just read a quote of her and used it in my shortfilm. I then googled her and wanted to know about her. For some reason I saw this whole interview. It is really great. I'm gonna check out her books.
@robkirchhof1332 жыл бұрын
She translated the Book of Tao. She's made me scream 'what the fuck!' while reading a book more than anyone else i've ever read. Fuck i love this woman. What a genius...
@NoName-qr5jg Жыл бұрын
I agree, sir
@unstopitable Жыл бұрын
What a beautiful human being and writer.
@NathanTRousseau3 ай бұрын
I so wishI had the chance to meet her in life, but I feel as if I have, through all her writing. It's so good to see interviews like this. She really inspired me so much in my life, not only in writing, but in my understanding of life. I will never have an experience of life on earth that was not touched by this woman.
@mjz90224 жыл бұрын
This is an absolutely wonderful interview.
@clarityphillips21472 жыл бұрын
always coming home is one of the most beautiful and heart-moving books i've ever read. i know people find it hard to get into, as i did too, because it's unlike anything else. but i promise it's very worth it to get to the end. there's a sense of coming full circle, as is natural to the theme and form of the book. i would add to le guin's explanation of the title that, for me, it depicts humans coming home to the essence of humanity, and that is the dancing of groupness and individuality in flow with nature, time, stories, work, conflict, peace. it is a place where humans have lived before and humans will live there again.
@iolairmuinnmalachybromham3103 Жыл бұрын
Oh my God that book is so special!! I think once you read it some part of you stays with it forever
@NoName-qr5jg Жыл бұрын
A such beautiful woman and person alike ! I'll remain dispossessed forever.
@robkirchhof1332 жыл бұрын
I've enjoyed, and learned, more from Le Guin than any other author I can think of. I can't wait for the right people to make her stuff into film.
@rp6272 жыл бұрын
lmao, "the story is the message, you can't just extract fortune cookie things out of them" :p
@NoName-qr5jg Жыл бұрын
Yes, excellent ! 😄
@Inquisitrr Жыл бұрын
Finished Left Hand of Darkness today. Can't wait to read what else she has to offer.
@NoName-qr5jg Жыл бұрын
Please run into "The dispossessed" : it is fabulous !
@capucnechaussonpassion142 жыл бұрын
This is a distinctly good interview
@lindsayrojas89643 жыл бұрын
I loveeeeee that they included audio of music from the world of Always Coming Home. I’m reading Left Hand of Darkness right now (about halfway through) and have already decided I’m going to take on that book next 🥰
@deskryptic4 жыл бұрын
What a gangster! Love her.
@MrSwinefuzz3 жыл бұрын
perfect description. I agree.
@kanewanharris24244 жыл бұрын
I bought Always Coming Home twenty years ago for the cover! I was frustrated by the content...thought it was like a manual. Years later I decided I had to read more of her stuff after seeing these interviews; I'm so glad I did.
@SourovKabirII2 жыл бұрын
i am also considering reading it. recently i found the book is very critically acclaimed.
@juliettebouchery35508 ай бұрын
Oh wonderful Ursula. So grateful for what you wrote and what you were.
@imaginationexpansion58186 жыл бұрын
GREAT MINDS ALWAYS SHARE THE GREATNESS
@goeblaubagan84074 жыл бұрын
Good interview. Public schools. Jails for children. So sad that school is engineered to crush out the creative spark in children. I had a kindergarten teacher who admitted to never having read a book in her life.
@MrSwinefuzz3 жыл бұрын
Are you serious about that teacher? How did she get the job?
@spacegerrit94992 жыл бұрын
I always fed my class freedom, not sure where this; school kills creativity nonsense comes from. We're no longer in a schoolsystem where the nuns slap you with a ruler. Its pretty overwhelmi g how much freedom children, almost too much sometimes.
@freethinker792 жыл бұрын
Yup. That's the Outcome Based Prussian Indoctrination System; institutionalized menticide.
@NoName-qr5jg Жыл бұрын
@@MrSwinefuzz Readinfg a book is not knowledge. Some very clever, wise and resourceful people can not even read.
@lynnlytton82449 ай бұрын
@@NoName-qr5jg Nothing wrong with that, as long as you're not supposed to be helping people learn to read, or to enjoy learning. The teacher being discussed did have that kind of job. Sounds like the wrong job for her. I'd much rather listen to an old illiterate artisan who loves their work.
@h0ll0wm9n Жыл бұрын
Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, features portions of a full length interview with Ursula K. Le Guin produced by TVAP (The Video Access Project) in 1985.
@juhanleemet2 жыл бұрын
good observation: 2 people CAN do 3 full time jobs, but one person cannot do 2 full time jobs! my experience agrees
@squamish42447 ай бұрын
Huh. She didn't write her classic series of books, The Left Hand of Darkness, the first Earthsea trilogy, the Lathe of Heaven, The Word for World is Forest and The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas until she was in her late 30s-mid 40s. That's encouraging :)
@rp6272 жыл бұрын
whoa, this is gold. thanks for uploading!
@barrygoldwater94505 жыл бұрын
Children are human beings!
@k3lash1743 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this!
@DobroMentor6 жыл бұрын
Yes, thank you! She is so different here and so the same as in her late years. Beautiful and brilliant!
@Pilum10005 жыл бұрын
the great writer...
@Jippa_33 Жыл бұрын
That was really great. Thank you for sharing this video
@yagurla4 жыл бұрын
omg this is so good
@mitchpeterson29536 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this video!
@MagikBud6 жыл бұрын
great talk
@corrupt38352 жыл бұрын
AMAZING LADY
@Billi_crowАй бұрын
thank u for the upload
@willrichardson5194 жыл бұрын
At 13 minutes; on men being more carelessly autobiographical than women...would make an interesting study...
@alexandernagel82054 жыл бұрын
Will Richardson or a great story!
@reliableandrew2 жыл бұрын
Wondering why you included the word 'carelessly' in your characterisation of men's writing.
@willrichardson5192 жыл бұрын
@@reliableandrew Ursula theorised that women are more careful so men wouldn't be careful, that is, they may be careless.
@reliableandrew2 жыл бұрын
@@willrichardson519 Uh-huh. I heard what Ursula theorised...and therefore her implicit assumption that men were...otherwise. Just thought you might've had something extra to add, no matter though.
@denmorgan2594 жыл бұрын
С благоговением смотрю
@vinaskth2 жыл бұрын
💗💗💗
@graydonsmith57229 ай бұрын
Truly one of the greats, she was taken too soon
@JerHilDay9 ай бұрын
well I've probably read 10,000 books in my life so far, and although I am sort of beyond the notion of having favorites, still I would say she is probably my favorite author, or certainly one of the top 2 or 3.
@Frisbieinstein9 ай бұрын
That's a book a day for thirty years.
@DanielLopez-zt4ig4 жыл бұрын
Still searching for THE book which will change my life.
@apenneukende4 жыл бұрын
Each on you read did
@oen24464 жыл бұрын
Flowers for algernon!
@lukecarroll40523 жыл бұрын
The dispossessed
@c.rutherford2 жыл бұрын
Tombs of Atuan definitely did for me. Its just a masterpiece imo. Though I don't want to ruin it for you by having you go in expecting that. I read Flowers for Algernon as a kid and god I hated it lol
@NoName-qr5jg Жыл бұрын
May be no one. But The Dispossessed could do the job.
@lorenzoc.b.98094 жыл бұрын
16:08 a good Tolkien follower
@DorothyPotterSnyder4 ай бұрын
Her face tells me that high school was hard for Ursula.
@RamonInNZ2 жыл бұрын
A very early interview re-released in 2018 for KZfaq - wonder when this was actually done?
@krispeysen544 ай бұрын
Yes I agree, this is important information to have. It looks like the 70s.
@ioq_16 күн бұрын
1985, they talk about the book Never Coming Home which was released the same year
@claireaurore99704 жыл бұрын
When was this recorded? This is amazing
@claireaurore99704 жыл бұрын
@Cheyna Partridge Thank you!
@tsundoku57336 жыл бұрын
When was this recorded?
@lucashoops46016 жыл бұрын
1985, IT SAYS IN THE CREDITS
@NoName-qr5jg Жыл бұрын
@@lucashoops4601 Thanks !
@kevgh3869 Жыл бұрын
Anyone know what year this is?
@jonathanharvey14516 ай бұрын
What year was this filmed?
@otheusrex21903 жыл бұрын
what year was this interview from?
@jonathanmitchell86983 жыл бұрын
1985. It's in the credits at the end.
@scroogemcduckrich9705 Жыл бұрын
18:48
@ricardoreis80963 ай бұрын
14:39 Left habd of darkness
@igormendonca4026 Жыл бұрын
ENTJ with developed Ni and Fi
@gatoravguld73519 ай бұрын
Who is the English author (Margaret?) that she mentions?
@TheHAM1980Ай бұрын
Atwood.... Margaret Atwood
@europa_bambaataa7 ай бұрын
When is this from?
@ioq_16 күн бұрын
1985
@jerraldwest85312 жыл бұрын
(interviewer) "What can I do to help a child realize it's ability?" (Le Guin musing to herself) "Well, not referring to them as "It" might be a good place to start."
@delmanpronto93743 жыл бұрын
man, women had so much class back then. please God, please bring these times back.
@contrarian99992 жыл бұрын
You just know the wrong women.
@delmanpronto93742 жыл бұрын
@@contrarian9999 you need to live longer.
@contrarian99992 жыл бұрын
@@delmanpronto9374 Don't have to to know there is huge diversity among women of character.
@delmanpronto93742 жыл бұрын
@@contrarian9999 if and when you live a little longer, it will become apparent that women across the board have become rude, aggressive and obscene. there's barely any grace or elegance in the way they conduct themselves. there's a war against femininity, and the its effects are quite palpable. to not be aware of this is to be quite ignorant of the situation at this time.
@contrarian99992 жыл бұрын
@@delmanpronto9374Or maybe that is a very American problem. And unfortunately most of the world tries to emulate America. I am proud of my femininity. As are most of the women in my life. Most times we've been shamed for femininity has been from men. Femininity has always been associated with weakness and inferiority which is why the reactivity swings so hard in the opposite direction nowadays.
@milansikidjo Жыл бұрын
She seems short tempered
@Belrondis Жыл бұрын
She's far left.
@rullmourn11425 жыл бұрын
Is she wearing a wig?
@georgetempest96275 жыл бұрын
The earth sea quartet is pure fantasy, NOT scifi... I find her very difficult to read, so are some other female authors. I am not a sexist and I adore everything by Ann Mc Caffrey! Ursula tries to hard to sound Shakespearian., it doesn't work love!
@jm64065 жыл бұрын
daft
@octavia4585 жыл бұрын
I disagree that it doesn't work, but I also have trouble with her writing. It can be as fancy as she wants, but it's not very personal.
@murdockfiles94065 жыл бұрын
What are you talking about. You must have a difficult time reading because Le Guin writes in a way that's simplistic, yet always exquisite. Her works are even a little difficult to read. If you want a difficult fantasy novel, read Mervyn Peake
@ttrenchmiranda4 жыл бұрын
@John Lamee Just finished the Dispossessed and loved it!