Anne Carson

Legendary poet and classicist Anne Carson read from "59 Paragraphs About Albertine" in addition to new work inspired by a character in Proust at The Center on September 10, 2013.

[alexandrafurlong]

the post-carson-desert is at least as dry as the desert-after-proust. thank you so much for posting this.

[AlexanderChee]

I love this so much, I'm easily responsible for about 50 of the listens on this.

[AAwildeone]

Thank you Ms. Carson...La Prisionerre is actually my favorite volume, and I am so happy you took it from (as the critic said, a throwaway) to a majorly important read!!! EROS The Bittersweet is one of the greatest works about the importance and meaning of artistic production since the 19th century...it MUST be read by anyone who sees this post

[mentoring]

Anne Carson makes interesting points not often picked up by the general reader, or even the more sophisticated reader. 

[AAwildeone]

Amazing...her delving into memory via Xeno's arrow...how one person can live with all this history and knowledge in her head and be able to gift it in these incredibly original talks and books is beyond me...I think I know a lot of smart people in academia and outside in the Arts, but few of them would listen to this because they would feel threatened, instead of opened up...

[AAwildeone]

What I get so far (at 45) is that straight or gay, men in general can share a common distorting misogyny...as a gay man who has been upbraided by strong women for being too persnickety about their appearance when going out to dinner or the like, I'd have to agree...only being on (45) though, I ask what I've always asked with Proust - was he trying to be a straight narrator, or didn't he really know how to think about or treat women, or was he a genius at interpreting his observations so such a quality cancels out the first two? Another post when I get to the end...

[AAwildeone]

Appendix 32 On Slavery...how about, she's supposed to be just mine, but her autonomy WEIGHS upon me...

[pasavant]

Sounds like a stunt to me. Works out to 1.56 pages per day over 7 years. At that rate you lose any sense of the novel's structure . If this video is just an example of performance art, then it should be viewed as such. Certainly not a serious comment on the Recherche.

[MaryJones-de]

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[foamamulet]

the laughter is so unnecessary and forced