Please dont delete this video forever please please please please...i am begging u🥺

You have to admire the old school actors , though strongly Shakespearian . Its sheer class and perfect diction and modulations

i think Kafka, shown here as a giant beetle, represents the outsider artist suddenly appearing unexpectantly in the midst of a bourgeois family. What are they to do with this abnormal freak?

Wow this guy is clearly like to give spoilers

what an incredible little film...much thanks!

Please explain the important notes to take away from such lecture?

"The passion of the scientist, and the precision of the artist" is probably the one quote that in my opinion separates a good writer from a great one.

Wow! Thank you for sharing this, what a jewel! brilliant Nabokov, brilliant Plummer

oy... Kafka was not a "petty clerk" in a Gogolian office -- he was an executive at a large insurance firm, and his legal knowledge of labor insurance issues was invaluable to his company

I think there is something off with this narration of the Metamorphosis which might not have been approved by Nabokov. It is really great, but there is something subtle nuance missing here. It might have come from the actor’s perception of the book. I might be wrong. Any feels the same?

just wonderful

The real question is how Gregor the beetle mysteriously changes its size!

I don't know much about Nabokov, but I think the analysis of Kafka's Metamorphosis was brilliant. However, I can not say I liked Plummer's pompous sounding delivery, which was overly dramatic for my taste. Being an aristocrat, Nabokov may have sounded somewhat like that. I don't know. But the way Plummer spoke reminded me of William F. Buckley Jr. debating James Baldwin, the inflections and pompousness that are meant to indicate good breading and sophistication.

Imagine knowing your English professor was writing Lolita in his downtime...

Wow!

You know what this film stock needs? More red.

He turned into a beatle but never played with John Lennon.

My favorite things about Kafka is how he treats corpses , or bodies destined for death: with utter contempt, because… that’s how it is

Superbly done

Why 1989 if Nobokov died in 1977?

This is based upon his collected lectures, edited by Fredson Bowers. One volume on Russian literature, one on English literature and one on Don Quixote. There was little to no critical theory in his lectures. Most of them illuminate the practical issues of writing stories.

Number pad a stream deck should be it’s own video.

Без влияния такой литературы , интеллект все больше подчиняется инстинктам - практически возвышая их . Поэзия Владимира Набокова не уступит его прозе!

Plummer became crap with egoyan.

Kafka was born into the Austro-Hungarian empire as Czechoslovakia was not brought into being until after WWI

holy jumping cats that's great

Humour in Kafka, Absurd, Marx in the novel America. Vera Nabokov translated Kafka for his husband. She was Jewish. He had a quarrel with Soljenitsin about the antisemitism of Alexander

Fine performance!

Conrad taught himself English through reading. He wanted to read Shakespeare in original.

His ingenuity borders on incredible. Of course, no Russian speak that British English rich and fluent as he did any more. He is undoubtedly the very last of the Mohicans of the great literary tradition dating from the heart of that golden age represented by Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy and Dostoyevski. I am inclined to imagine his American audience of the day had been rather tempted to write by his example, his ardent vigor, in spite of the ageing body, his general drive of an artist. In that sense, the Kafkean beetle lurks in each and every of us endowed with a few droplets of talent, for it is this kind of metamorphosis that turns us as human beings into a creature of creation, however trying and even repugnant such prowess may appear to the unproductive and secondary mind of an onlooker.

Is the “Nabokov” in this video actually Nabokov or is this a reenactment for the show?

10/10 to the show how’s for pronouncing Vladimir Nabokov with an authentic sound of a Russian speaker.

It's amazingly performed, love it . Christopher plummer RIP .

The greatest short story ever written.

This is crap

Takes you back to university days, eh ?

1959 was a great year for literature like lolita and naked lunch novels that led the way for such wonderful works as the atrocity exhibition and last exit to Brooklyn clockwork orange (1962 if not mistaken) and twelve to name but a few.

Fantastic! Thank you!

Fun stuff...

What a marvelous actor! No one has played such a wide variety of roles! RIP Christopher Plummer.

wonderful story by Franz Kafka!

Nabokov was native English speaker, he was trilingual

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Amazing. That story honestly gave me chills. I've never heard it before.

absolute gem

I don't wish to sound unkind because Christopher Plummer would easily be one of my favorite actors of all time but I feel like his Nabokov accent drifted into a French affectation. I don't know Nabokov so perhaps he knew French as well as English? Still it's a remarkable performance like most of his roles. RIP Christopher Plummer 💜

Charlie day had to have been playing this character in flowers for Charlie lol

Man, what an outstanding actor

My respect and appreciation of Nabokov grew tenfold after witnessing this remarkable man step into a storyteller's shoes. There can be no doubt after watching this, literature ran through his veins, not mere blood. Thank you so much for sharing this with the world.

Thank you for the video!