I read every Nobel Literature Prize winner from 1922 to 1928, and this is what I found

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25 күн бұрын

It is the fourth week of my reading challenge - to read all 120 winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature before the 2024 winner is announced.
In week four of the 120 Nobels reading challenge I introduce you to the Nobel Prizes of the turbulent twenties - from Benavente in 1922 to Undset in 1928.
You will discover some hidden connections to George Orwell, Animal Farm, and the famous Audrey Hepburn film from 1964, My Fair Lady.
More details, links to all texts and resources are available at my substack - jeffrich.substack.com. Free to join.
My 120 Nobels Challenge series on substack will show you how the Nobel Prize is a window onto on understanding the world history, world literature and geopolitics.
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Пікірлер: 55

@soutteruk1 20 күн бұрын

Everything falls apart, centre and periphery, eventually. Nothing is forever.

@theburningarchive 16 күн бұрын

Indeed isn't there a Moby song about that? From the Bourne movies.

@carvedouttastone 13 күн бұрын

Your.channel is blowing up now Rich. Well deserved

@davidmatlock6410 19 күн бұрын

Great idea, interesting presentation, just subscribed

@theburningarchive 16 күн бұрын

Thank you

@Svetlana5-lingua 20 күн бұрын

Thank you for the video)Very informative, pleasant to listen to.

@theburningarchive 16 күн бұрын

Thank you

@tarquinmidwinter2056 21 күн бұрын

What an interesting challenge! Kristin Lavransdatter has long been my favourite novel of any genre.

@theburningarchive 15 күн бұрын

on my substack (jeffrich.substack.com) I did a 'audiobook' reading of the first chapter of the most recent translation - check it out if you have not already done so.

@eligoitein6499 21 күн бұрын

bob dylan / oscar winner

@theburningarchive 21 күн бұрын

You got it

@michaelstahlberg9392 20 күн бұрын

Billy The Kid and Pat Garret?

@bobbowser2876 12 күн бұрын

“Things Have Changed” from the film “Wonder Boys”

@weavebrain 23 күн бұрын

Very enjoyable. This run down triggered lots of memories for me. I had both GB Shaw’s Pygmalion and Saint Joan as set texts in high school in the 1970s. While concurrently covering the Weimar Republic in history class.

@theburningarchive 15 күн бұрын

It is so interesting to compare the treatment of the 1920s in British, American and German television - say Downton Abbey, Great Gatsby and Babylon Berlin!. Thanks for the comment

@nicholasadams1283 17 күн бұрын

Fascinating to hear about the lesser known winners. Thank you very much.

@theburningarchive 16 күн бұрын

Thank you. I am so glad you said that!

@Kafkaesque786 22 күн бұрын

Fantastic. Thank you

@theburningarchive 22 күн бұрын

Thank you too!

@margaretinsydney3856 7 күн бұрын

I've just come upon this video. Thank you, algorithm! What an interesting idea. I'll be fascinated to read your overall conclusions. I've picked up a number of these prize-winners over the years and thought they were, at best, Of Their Time. I have subscribed.😊

@theburningarchive 5 күн бұрын

Many thanks. Do also check out my substack jeffrich.substack.com for some additional aspects of the challenge.

@kazuyetsochev9816 22 күн бұрын

This was a fantastic video! Thank you for sharing! I am looking forward to the next one and the answer to who is the 2nd nobel prize winner to also win an oscar.

@theburningarchive 22 күн бұрын

Thank you

@AndyBends 21 күн бұрын

bob dylan is the answer

@boscodeoliveira5752 19 күн бұрын

it greatly elucidates the human nature of writers and philosophers . Just subscribed to the channel. As for the Nobel winner who also won an Academy Award, I know Bob Dylan, who controversially won the the Nobel prize for Literature in 2016, had won an Academy Award for Best Original Song (Things have Changed) for the movie Wonder Boys,

@theburningarchive 19 күн бұрын

thank you 🥇for getting Bob Dylan

@toinpituba6590 23 күн бұрын

Uma extraordinária maneira de falar da literatura, como sempre muito agradável. Uma invejável cultura! Acompanhando seus vídeos na medida do possível. Abraço fraterno do BraZil.

@theburningarchive 15 күн бұрын

Muito obrigado. Me conte seus escritores brasileiros favoritos

@toinpituba6590 14 күн бұрын

@@theburningarchive Dear Jeff, I am flattered by your interest, perhaps in the near future I will be able to participate more actively in your excellent interventions. My country's literature is extraordinary, rich, underestimated and unknown outside of it. Finding The Burning Archive was one of the best finds in recent times. I am a self-taught person, a voracious reader since early childhood. Despite being born in the interior of Brazil, I lived in Europe and Central America for more than 10 years. My area of interest is my entire planet with everything that travels with it. I think it's a shame that the real pandemic is the cognitive dysfunction that leads even the most intelligent and capable to not look at others. Lucky for us we have some beacons like you to lessen the feeling of being alone. A fraternal hug from BraZil

@AIainMConnachie 18 күн бұрын

Wonderful

@theburningarchive 16 күн бұрын

Thank you

@MrUndersolo 18 күн бұрын

The Nobel has always been political, and your page and review proves as much. New sub!

@fredwelf8650 19 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@theburningarchive 19 күн бұрын

many thanks 🙏

@ryanand154 20 күн бұрын

I read about William Faulkner reading to his cousin while they read to their dying cousin at the behest of their mother.

@theburningarchive 16 күн бұрын

Great story. Faulkner is coming up on the series in 2 weeks I think!

@aurelius54 21 күн бұрын

Enjoyed this video- thanks. Could the Noble + Oscar winner be John Steinbeck?

@fredwelf8650 19 күн бұрын

@@aurelius54 bob dylan

@theburningarchive 16 күн бұрын

close but the answer is below

@theburningarchive 16 күн бұрын

correct! 🥇

@waynesmith3767 18 күн бұрын

Bob Dylan is the only other person than GBS to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize in Literature; quite a decline in both prizes.

@theburningarchive 16 күн бұрын

You got it! I tend to agree with you on the merits.... that episode of the series is going to be hot!

@InfiniteText 13 күн бұрын

1955 Winner is my favourite of all the time. I'll stand by Laxness until I die. I really enjoyed your video, wow, I wish Shaw was still a household name.

@theburningarchive 13 күн бұрын

Looking forward to discovering Laxness in a week or so

@AndyBends 21 күн бұрын

where is your link to Bergson?

@theburningarchive 15 күн бұрын

in my substack jeffrich.substack.com

@davedraycott5779 17 күн бұрын

In what way was the USA the ‘child’ of the Spanish Empire as it broke away from the British Empire?

@theburningarchive 16 күн бұрын

Good question. I was being a bit cryptic but referring to Felipe Fernandez-Armesto's history of the USA, shaped by Spain as well as Britain You can watch my interview with Felipe here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/buCbl5Nzxt6diKM.html We discuss this issue but I can't recall timestamp