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Book Review: "The Mahé Circle" by Georges Simenon
The MahĂ© Circle is one of the lesser great books by Georges Simenon but still contains slight brilliances that we would commonly associate with him and his works. Long strings of brilliance and vibrance followed by depressing and haunting images, characters with strange pasts and major pieces of dialogue. When it comes to characterisation, Simenon is one of the greats with having the ability to start a story in the middle of a narrative whilst also giving us a whole backstory to a character that is revealed through snippets, bits and pieces and the way in which we are taught about other characters, both relative and irrelevant. It is like learning about secrets we are not supposed to know. However, this book lacks the philosophical depth that I have seen in other Simenon books such as âThe Man Who Watched the Trains Go Byâ and âThe Blue Roomâ. But let us have a look at some of the bookâs quotations that I thought were some of the strongest in the whole narrative:
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to: LGBTQA+ Cinema
In this chapter of âthe filmmakerâs guideâ weâre actually going to be learning about literature and film together. I understand that many of you are sitting in university during difficult times and finding it increasingly hard to study and I understand that many of you who are not at university or not planning on it are possibly stuck of what to do, need a break or even need to catch up on learning film before you get to the next level. This guide will be brief but will also contain: new vocabulary, concepts and theories, films to watch and we will be exploring something taboo until now in the âfilmmakerâs guideâ - academia (abyss opens). Each article will explore a different concept of film, philosophy, literature or bibliography/filmography etc. in order to give you something new to learn each time we see each other. You can use some of the words amongst family and friends to sound clever or you can get back to me (email in bio) and tell me how youâre doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmakerâs guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Mythologies" by Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes has always been a favourite critic of mine to read because his philosophies are so out there and yet, they are perfectly explained through everyday things. These things include everything from Ancient Romans to Margarine to Childrenâs Novels and more - Roland Barthes analysis them all in some weird and strange perspective. In this particular book of âMythologiesâ - Roland Barthes takes seemingly normal situations and hyper-analysis why they remain a part of peopleâs lives. This book is a brilliant part of the Roland Barthes is something incredible of the philosophies and though I do not agree with all of the stuff he says, but there are always things that are so well written that I cannot resist but read them.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Transit" by Anna Seghers
This book may be better written than others, but there is a real lack of philosophical reflection passages for a book that claims to be most about the existential. When it does happen, it is well written. But it just does not do it enough nor does it go in-depth enough about the philosophical viewpoint of the narrator. I think that this is because the character has no real traits that match up or associate with the author and so the author finds it difficult to assume the existential points in his head without being reductive. It is played safe, but research could have made the character a lot more well-built and thoroughly examined. I feel like we just get one thing after another and there is no real time to stop and stand, just admiring the characters and their inner beings. This obviously makes the relationships between characters suffer as we do not feel like we know them enough to care about them properly.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to: Idealism
In this chapter of âthe filmmakerâs guideâ weâre actually going to be learning about literature and film together. I understand that many of you are sitting in university during difficult times and finding it increasingly hard to study and I understand that many of you who are not at university or not planning on it are possibly stuck of what to do, need a break or even need to catch up on learning film before you get to the next level. This guide will be brief but will also contain: new vocabulary, concepts and theories, films to watch and we will be exploring something taboo until now in the âfilmmakerâs guideâ - academia (abyss opens). Each article will explore a different concept of film, philosophy, literature or bibliography/filmography etc. in order to give you something new to learn each time we see each other. You can use some of the words amongst family and friends to sound clever or you can get back to me (email in bio) and tell me how youâre doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmakerâs guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Selected Poems" by Federico Garcia Lorca
When I first read Federico Garcia Lorca, I was only about sixteen and I cannot remember exactly what I was reading because it was not a book. It was on a sheet of paper and it was one of his poems. The only thing I did remember [because I wrote it in my journal] was that it was 'revolutionary' in language [is how I put it]. Through reading a book filled the selected best poems of Lorca, I have come to re-establish what that means. I wrote it to mean that the images that I was reading of Lorca and relating it to the context of the Spanish Civil War in which he had been active in, this would have been a revolutionary act and may have been one of the reasons that ultimately and unfortunately, he was killed. The intense liberation of human emotion in the poems may have been one of the reasons why the Spanish Army were not too fond of Lorca's writings and why Lorca, in the many years after the Civil War, became an icon for freedom, revolution and basically one of the heroes of Spain.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Poets
A Filmmaker's Guide to: The Everyman
In this chapter of âthe filmmakerâs guideâ weâre actually going to be learning about literature and film together. I understand that many of you are sitting in university during difficult times and finding it increasingly hard to study and I understand that many of you who are not at university or not planning on it are possibly stuck of what to do, need a break or even need to catch up on learning film before you get to the next level. This guide will be brief but will also contain: new vocabulary, concepts and theories, films to watch and we will be exploring something taboo until now in the âfilmmakerâs guideâ - academia (abyss opens). Each article will explore a different concept of film, philosophy, literature or bibliography/filmography etc. in order to give you something new to learn each time we see each other. You can use some of the words amongst family and friends to sound clever or you can get back to me (email in bio) and tell me how youâre doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmakerâs guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
In this article, we will be looking at 2019âs book â1001 Movies to See Before You Dieâ and going through each film in a random order that I have chosen. We will be looking at what constitutes this film to be on the list and whether I think this film deserves to be here at all. I want to make perfectly clear that I wonât be revealing details from this book such as analyses by film reporters who have written about the film in question, so if you want the book itself youâll have to buy it. But I will be covering the bookâs suggestions on which films should be your top priority. I wouldnât doubt for a second that everyone reading this article has probably watched many of these movies anyway. But we are just here to have a bit of fun. Weâre going to not just look at whether it should be on this list but weâre also going to look at why the film has such a legacy at all. Remember, this is the 2019 version of the book and so, films like âJokerâ will not be featured in this book and any film that came out in 2020 (and if we get there, in 2021). So strap in and if you have your own suggestions then donât hesitate to email me using the address in my bio. Letâs get on with it then.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Un Chien Andalou (1929)
In this article, we will be looking at 2019âs book â1001 Movies to See Before You Dieâ and going through each film in a random order that I have chosen. We will be looking at what constitutes this film to be on the list and whether I think this film deserves to be here at all. I want to make perfectly clear that I wonât be revealing details from this book such as analyses by film reporters who have written about the film in question, so if you want the book itself youâll have to buy it. But I will be covering the bookâs suggestions on which films should be your top priority. I wouldnât doubt for a second that everyone reading this article has probably watched many of these movies anyway. But we are just here to have a bit of fun. Weâre going to not just look at whether it should be on this list but weâre also going to look at why the film has such a legacy at all. Remember, this is the 2019 version of the book and so, films like âJokerâ will not be featured in this book and any film that came out in 2020 (and if we get there, in 2021). So strap in and if you have your own suggestions then donât hesitate to email me using the address in my bio. Letâs get on with it then.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Flood" by J.M.G Le Clézio
J.M.G Le ClĂ©zio wrote âThe Floodâ about a person who was about to commit suicide and, in reading about the way in which death and suicide are covered in this book made me want to take my time with it. Unlike his novel âTerra Amataâ, âThe Floodâ is very disturbing in its sense of existentialism when it is directly to do with a very specific death. The book itself is a brilliant representation of all the extremities of human emotion and all the existential thoughts that come along with being alone for far too long. It is, in my opinion, one of JMG Clezioâs best works and the book itself is a brilliantly written piece of crisis and melancholy. The writing style is so overwhelming that this is one of the reasons why I took my time reading this one. I just wanted to take a breather whilst reading it, breathing in and out with the incredible descriptions tinged by the emotions of the human experience in which the reader gets to see the inner-workings of an analysis of suicide and attempted suicide.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to: Denialism
In this chapter of âthe filmmakerâs guideâ weâre actually going to be learning about literature and film together. I understand that many of you are sitting in university during difficult times and finding it increasingly hard to study and I understand that many of you who are not at university or not planning on it are possibly stuck of what to do, need a break or even need to catch up on learning film before you get to the next level. This guide will be brief but will also contain: new vocabulary, concepts and theories, films to watch and we will be exploring something taboo until now in the âfilmmakerâs guideâ - academia (abyss opens). Each article will explore a different concept of film, philosophy, literature or bibliography/filmography etc. in order to give you something new to learn each time we see each other. You can use some of the words amongst family and friends to sound clever or you can get back to me (email in bio) and tell me how youâre doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmakerâs guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to: Roland Barthes
In this chapter of âthe filmmakerâs guideâ weâre actually going to be learning about literature and film together. I understand that many of you are sitting in university during difficult times and finding it increasingly hard to study and I understand that many of you who are not at university or not planning on it are possibly stuck of what to do, need a break or even need to catch up on learning film before you get to the next level. This guide will be brief but will also contain: new vocabulary, concepts and theories, films to watch and we will be exploring something taboo until now in the âfilmmakerâs guideâ - academia (abyss opens). Each article will explore a different concept of film, philosophy, literature or bibliography/filmography etc. in order to give you something new to learn each time we see each other. You can use some of the words amongst family and friends to sound clever or you can get back to me (email in bio) and tell me how youâre doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmakerâs guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
