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- The acclaimed Irish writer Sally Rooney explains her urge to write novels about the life that she is living: “It didn’t come from any particular fascination with my own life, it was just that that was the only life that I had available to me.”
In this video, Sally Rooney explains that her two first novels, Conversations with Friends and Normal People, drew inspiration from her own experiences at university in Dublin: “I feel like I need to know something really well before I can pick up the kind of observations that interests me as a writer,” she says and elaborates: “To be able to set a story in a place, not so much a geographical location, but in a community, I need to have a really strong sense of how the people in that community behave.”
Sally Rooney explains that she sees the world through what she calls a Marxist framework and that both of her novels explore social structures: “When there are two people alone in a bedroom no one is thinking about class and gender, but the structures are there,” she says. Rooney’s books also discuss social class through her characters: “The people that I write about tend to be precariously situated in the economy. They are usually college educated like I am, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they are financially stable and secure.”
“I find it really hard to explain why I’m interested in the things that interest me,” Rooney reflects. In her writing, she tends to throw obstacles at her characters to see how they react and develop:
“I wonder if that’s because the character is a projection of me.” The link between herself and her characters is apparent: “I need to feel that I can make something from my experiences because otherwise, I don’t know what they are. Maybe it’s a way of consoling myself for the meaninglessness of life,” she says and adds: “I feel like I have a duty to [write].”
Sally Rooney (b. 1991) is an Irish writer. Rooney is the author of Conversations with Friends (2017) and Normal People (2018). The latter won the ‘Irish Novel of the Year’ at the Irish Book Awards as well the Costa Book Award, which Rooney is the youngest novelist to be awarded. Rooney is also the winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2017. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta and The London Review of Books. Moreover, she is the editor of the Irish literary journal The Stinging Fly.
Sally Rooney was interviewed by Kathrine Tschemerinsky at the Louisiana Literature festival at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark in August 2018. In the video, Sally Rooney is reading an excerpt from her novel Conversations with Friends.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 College life
03:43 From adolecent to young adulthood
06:27 Marxism and social structures
12:33 How to write
17:43 Seeing herself in her characters
24:58 When the book is finished - Zábava
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Do not watch this anti-Semite!!
@@dipdo7675 I think you might do well to consider Israel a country not a religion. And both the native Israeli people and the native Palestinian people are considered Semite peoples.
“I didn’t have any other life I could write about.” Such a beautiful quote.
not really lol
@@ILoveAsuka I’m writing my life, not yours.
@@ILoveAsuka literally lol people are so easily impressed
and who the hell cares to read so much about others??? everybody think they are doing gods work .!! just look at me.
@@Charataee *Easily inspired.
I just finished reading this book and normal people. She’s a very good writer. It almost feels like you’re reading a diary when characters have intimate conversations. It’s really hard to put down her books when she makes really honest characters. Can’t wait for her new book this September. She’s a great author!
really!!
This is my most favorite modern author. I fell in love with her first book. I love her introvert-melancholic writing...it suits my personality perfectly....I also enjoy conversations about society, interesting topics etc. in her books.
people only write what they think. people cannot write themselves. because who is writing? just a personality
sally seems to get the same feeling writing a book that i get from journalling. Having somewhere to break down your emotions / experiences and then coming to a conclusion at the end. I love how her mind works, after reading normal people in less than a day, i bought her other two novels. Im so excited for this author, she seems to get me!
I'm so in love with Sally Rooney's writing I can't express in words. I would put my life on the line for this woman
Absolutely love Sally. Confidence, talent, intelligence and humbleness mixed perfectly. She just seems to be someone you'd love to have as a friend. Well, at least I would.
I was magnetically attracted to Normal People. It was immensely relatable and beautifully written.
when she talked about not wanting to make a point out of something readers always get from her books, it made me think about what Roland Barthes said on "death of the author", we tend to look for book's "true meaning" from who wrote them, but maybe it's about giving a place to the readers.. as Barthes said, "the unity of a text is not at its origin, but at its destination"
It could very well be both. I honestly appreciate both. Sometimes people can write more interesting things about a book, then the original author can and the fact that some authors don't realize that makes them look insular and small in my opinion.
@@doclime4792 definitely!
Reading her book for the first time was like opening my eyes and Im so grateful for that experience. She’s spectacular
She writes about what She knows. Thats the best thing She could ever do.
Normal People was one of the most underrated tv shows of 2020.
Cored Normcore
She’s my fav author I love this woman.
Love this woman, can't wait for her new book this fall 2021
I'm currently reading it 😃
Which one ?
@@cliffhanger5020 beautiful world, where are you
The one that is available in Arabic and for Qataris, Saudis, etc but not Hebrew because she isn't a Nazi .. honest...
@@whateverbabe thankyou. Started reading it is lovely
Lovely interview and author. It's so interesting to see what each author/artist thinks and feels about their art, and how different it is from one person to another.
I just loved the way she write normal people …I was so immersed in how the characters perceived life and tried to communicate with each other
Good interview..... Thanks for sharing these videos.....Best channel on CZcams.....
loved Conversations with Friends, very engaging thank you, for me, it captures quite nicely the relationship between creative, sensitive people and those possibly less so who are better stronger communicators.
She's a wonderful writer. I love her!
I think that people like to see how "it is possible to live" - but also been very aware that every structure could be changed .
We are in a way unique and yet related and very much dependent of the culture we are part of.
Maybe we just do as usually,- we learn into habits and routines, but we could choose to do the things differently -
or just follow the norms of a group and culture that we are part of and yet at the same time free to do things differently.
But just the ways we experience and the ways we can observe, can show us unlimited possibilities.
How we are present, how open, how curious and how playfull and curageous we act, is something that cannot be predicted.
I believe that humans mirror the life around them but also always with possibility of mirroring the dreams, the longing that is also part of the stuff life is made of.
Change is very possible ....
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Feeling you have a duty to right is how one justifies the compulsion to write which is necessary to actually complete anything. Duty is how one resolves "humility" with ambition and pride.
I love how she radiates MARIANNE
We have same age and I'm writing my first novel. This is the first time I hear something like that. 😢🥺
I started writing my first novel and hearing your interview I realise I think almost similar as you.. So I suppose I have to keep on
i'm drawn to her persona and look forward to reading the three novels of her that are out as of now :)
World needs great people with homour like you .respect to you Sally.
This was exactly, how I hoped, this interview would go.
I love Conversations with Friends- it captures that time in your 20s when you really don't know what it's all about. When Frances self harms I want to enter the novel and give her a hug. Nick is so nice- but he is dishonest. The ambivalent relationship is harming Frances. She could waste years of her life with this man.....
God, I love her so much.
"of all those who write, I love those who write in blood, for blood is of the spirit". Nietzsche, Zarathustra. Please have a look at the sublime tetralogy "Joseph and his brothers" by Thomas Mann. When I listen to you I think of W. B. Yeats and James Joyce. All the best. Noel
She hates Yates in case you were Not aware !
@@rajsingharora26 I am now. It even rhymes.... "hates yeats
You think of them because they're Irish too? Find it hard to recognize anything of them in her other than that.
@@rajsingharora26 I can imagine. She is none of what he describes. Rather soulless her writing
@@malkafrank5107 "rather soulless her writing" means what exactly! All I want to say I like Sally Rooney's writing.
I wish that people would not be offended by memories. I never really had my own little brother but there's 4 guys that were either friends little brother and a couple kids my mom babysat. All four I was protective of cause of my personal being a little brother story.
That is also about today reality when people from different countries meet. 💙
Love her Work Love it.
Why is she putting words to ALL MY THOUGHTS ABOUT MYSELF??!?
dear sally rooney,
ILY
x cedrick
Sally Rooney I love you girl
🙌🏻💖
I'm French and therefore I don't know her. I write too and find her very inspiring. I didn't see the 30mn elapse.
she is amazing
God bless u
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I thinknit was 2003 when I lost my interest in the media. It's not overall as diverce. It's really narrowly focused. It sounds like monotone and li I e Brian buzzella on drugs. Something I never saw in person so I'm just using a metaphor for something I don't rec
Some of us think you are earth-shakingly re-caliberating; some don't. What you said about taking characters on a journey enters into the nature of fictional pain; might come an age when authors would be censored for the degree of suffering, they are allowed to portray. If you think about it; a genius could hypnotize their entire readership into depression - picture that!
Supporters of Israeli govt bring up the subject of "other countries" committing violations of human rights ADMITT that Israeli govt is an OPPRESSIVE regime ( against Palestinians ) like China. But then, China has never claimed to be a Democracy (as described by western govts ). Also, do some believe that an individual's activism comes from religious/moral/personal beliefs or historical experiences? Ms Rooney is Irish and the Irish have suffered the yoke of Colonialism. Is it very difficult to understand her identification with suffering of PaleStinians whose land has been colonised?? That her country was divided up and that is what IsrAeli govt has done to PaleStine!! Would some as a supporter of IsrAeli govt (or Israeli state which has no borders) rather IsrAeli govt stopped its human rights violations with impunity, expropriating PalesTinian land and let them live in TOTAL freedom ( as ANY democratic govt would do) or NOT? If indeed that happened, there would be NO NEED for any action against IsrAel.
Keep strong. Dont forget that despite the evil in this world, God is full of justice, mercy and love.
Justice said we broke His perfect law - causing the world's previous perfection to be destroyed - and therefore we deserve Hell (like a punishment in any legal system but this is eternal as His perfect law is eternal too). Don't think you fit in that category? Ever done one of these?: lying, stealing - regardless of how small the object EVER, hating others - which is murder in God's perfect law, lusting (plus God sees our entire thought life). Justice says "the soul that sins shall die" - if we break one in thought/word/deed it's as if we're guilty of all of them. Quite simply, living by the law (which is doing everything perfectly) is impossible for sinful humans
. The law shows us that 1. We will die in Hell if we fail to follow it and 2. We cannot save ourselves BUT, 3. God's perfect, immovable law points us to Christ, who followed and fulfilled the law in thought, word and deed perfectly in our place. He did what we couldn't and did it on our behalf. He was then sentenced to death on a cross, and took our personal punishment for our sin, paying our penalty (like paying our fine) completely FOR us, and has given us freedom.
If we turn from the sins we have committed and repent (pursue the opposite direction of love through Christ) He will, overtime, recreate us into His image through The Holy Spirit which Jesus sends to all who accept Him as their personal Lord and Savior of their life. We cannot purify ourselves, but Christ lived that perfect sinless, pure life and then allotted it to our "account".
That's where our righteousness comes from. Not from any good, works that you or I could do.
It is not based on the amount of good works we do. God starts the changes, He carries it on, and He completes it in those who let Him.
It's about letting Christ in to guide and teach you and obeying Him, again, through His power and instruction).
He is our substitute in His life, death and resurrection. He essentially rewrote history in our place so that, if you believe in Him, it will be as if YOU had never sinned if you accept Christ's death as our own in our place.
He is in Heaven right now preparing a place for us so that He can take His faithful, believing children home with Him when He returns. He will ressurrect us from death when He returns, giving mercy to those who accept His love, forgiveness, instruction and teachings in their life, and give justice to those who refuse it.
He doesn't want ANY of us to go to Hell and die for continuing in evil and rejecting His way to life, thats why He died FOR us. Hes giving EVERYONE a chance, He wants everyone to take the free gift of salvation from Hell. He wants us to be His and begin to follow His life of love and service through His power and abiding (staying) with Him. So long as we keep our hearts near to Christ through His strength, strive to follow His will of perfect love revealed in the Bible, and let Him lead in the midst of (very certain) pitfalls and struggles, we will, in time, win the ultimate victory over sin, pain and DEATH through Christ. Even if you are willing to be made willing, pray for Jesus to come in and He will do what we can't. Give us The Holy Spirit who will guide us in the right way.
NOTE: You are NEVER too sinful or messed up that God cannot turn your life around through Jesus. EVER
If you have any questions let me know xx
Normcore
All the weirdos want to be "normal" instead of embracing themselves for the beautiful beings they are.
I see Marianne in her..
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I enjoyed her first two books - but then the third one was a huge disappointment. I felt it was well worn ground really. She seems like a nice woman though.
Bland narration of regular life, with a few naughty bits.
god she fine as hell
She says "em" a lot.
Damn she’s got one of those Americanized Irish accents 😞
I loved normal people, I think SR has made a good point she hasn't lived enough, needs more experiences living in another country, I would love her to live in a communist country and see if she still looks at the world in a markist way, I've memories of ppl standing in line waiting for food, shops with nothing in them, capitalisim markets & socalist ideas can exist but in democracies only, it didn't work, it was miserable
I would kinda argue that there has never been a true communist country, because every time a communist country was made, all they really did was reshuffle the economy and create an oligarchy, -they didn’t take away class struggles, just changed them. And I agree, communism doesn’t work because it relies on the goodwill of all people involved.
@@alexrader5822 it didn't promote creativity, everyone had a job, but not doing what they wanted, ambition has got us were we are today but why would I study to be a doctor or engineer when the pay scales are all the same, I would argue that the friends that I have from former communist are more materialist & capitalist because they were denied it growing up, they crave latest gaget etc,
@@johanneflanagan2999 I love hearing your perspective from someone that has lived in a communist place. Thank you, lots to chew on.
@@alexrader5822 many thanks Alex, I didn't live in a communist country I hear in Dublin rather travelled to Poland & Bulgaria for few weeks as a child, I have many friends from East block countries, I have a pal who grew up in East Berlin, they were encouraged to keep a file on the comings and goings of neighbours, it too the heat off them, what a culture of secrecy they lived in, but similar happen here during the troubles in northern Ireland, suspicion everywhere
oy vey. as if marxist analysis hasn’t been made of actually existing communism and in capitalist societies everyone is well-fed & warm & housed. spare us the Cold War propaganda please.
But why do you write so much about sex. And give such detailed graphic descriptions?
Lol Marxist 🤦
I heard nice things about Israel but who the hell is Sally Rooney?
Ah yes apartheid and ethnic cleansing and driving natives out of their land is good
It seems Eugene your world view is both out of context and narrow.
May be she is a neo-nazi?
@@eugenef.6143 Eugene, Sally Rooney has said she is a Marxist at least in principal which has passed off a lot of people who don't really understand Marxism. So then how could she be a neo-nazi which was diametrically opposite of Marxism. I think you should take some history lessons.
In my opinion Sally Rooney is principled unlike the many people who have criticized her here.
Sally Rooney’s Hate Is the New Normal
It is not easy to convince the Snapchat generation to read books. To do so, you must be a gifted writer and know which buttons to press in young people’s hearts. Sally Rooney, a young Irish author, is that kind of writer. Her first two books have won multiple awards and she is widely regarded as one of the most prominent voices of millennials.
Rooney is also very opinionated. She is a self-proclaimed Marxist and an avid supporter of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement (BDS). In line with her views, she has refused to sell translation rights to Israeli publishers. Because of her notoriety, her decision caused quite a stir. The New York Times stated, “Sally Rooney Declines to Sell Translation Rights to Israeli Publisher.” CNN echoed, “Sally Rooney refuses to sell Hebrew rights for latest book to Israeli publisher, citing political objections,” and other prominent news outlets also reported her decision.
In response, Israel's two largest bookstore chains announced that they would pull all of Rooney's titles from their shelves. This also caused a stir, though not as much. The BBC reported it, as did The Guardian and other British news outlets. Naturally, the Jewish press was all over the case, as well.
I sympathize with the response of the bookstore chains, just as I was in favor of banning other individuals and brands that boycott Israel. At the same time, I understand why they are doing this, and I am glad that it is causing a stir in Israel.
We can look the other way for only so long. At some point, we will have to ask ourselves why the world hates us, and it is better if we do it now than later.
We need to use such incidents constructively. By "constructively," I mean that we should use them as an impetus to return to the roots of our nation, to our fundamental principles of mutual responsibility and brotherly love. These are the building blocks of our nation, and these are the qualities that we lost long ago and for which we were exiled from Israel.
When we were cast as a nation that was to be “a light unto nations,” we were made to reflect the splendor of love of others to the entire world. Long before we gave the world Albert Einstein and Arthur Rubenstein, we gave it “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Granted, we did not quite manage to make it a reality, but the idea itself was, and still is, so novel, so unlike human nature, that to this day it seems undoable.
Still, the world will not leave us in peace until we begin to implement this very legacy we had left to humanity. Indeed, it makes perfect sense to demand that the progenitors of this sublime idea be the first to implement it.
The more the world becomes divided and hostile, the more it needs its opposite - love of others. The more people hate each other, the more they will demand that we love each other, and they will hate us for not doing so and setting an example for the world to follow.
In the near future, numerous celebrities, pundits, and politicians will declare their disapproval of Israel. They will not justify our existence as a sovereign state unless we justify it by setting an example of unity. Nothing else will satisfy them; nothing else will appease their hatred.
For more on this, see my publication The Jewish Choice: Unity or Anti-Semitism...
classic bs evasion of issue. endless chatter about humanity while ducking the oppression she decries. but thanks for the cross-eyed lecture.
Bad Faith hasbara from a settler-colonial apologist who thinks god is a real estate agent.
This woman won't allow her latest novel to be translated into Hebrew by an Israeli publisher. I wonder what her next novel will be about? Perhaps it could be about the Irish Republican Armies links to Nazi Germany in the Second World War.
How refreshing to find someone with sanity and knowledge of the Irish history of supporting Nazis during WWII. It shows how stupid they were. The Nazis would have treated them no better than other conquered people. They would have killed the Catholic priests and other leaders who could ever give the Nazis any problems and made the rest of them slaves to Hitler's empire
@@jayjohnston1 You are completely right. If the Nazis had conquered Britain, including Northern Ireland, Southern Ireland would have been next.
@@georgeash4008 you like spiteful little remarks. The IRA did NOT exist in any shape or form during WW2, and even if they had existed it is extremely unlikely that they an illegal clandestine paramilitary organisation could have any sway with the all powerful, brutish NAZI's who at one point believed they were demi-Gods. Should Ireland be condemned for deciding on neutrality during WW2?
@@jamesdolan4042 I fear you don't like the fact we in the USA fought Hitler and you Irish did not. IRA commander Sean Russell died in a German U boat in 1940 on his way back to Ireland.
Boycotting Israel does not magically turn you into a "Nazi". And the IRA allied with the Nazis not because of their ideology but to use them to free Northern Ireland from English colonialization.
The next-generation Stephenie Meyer, with a dropleteen of Zadie Smith to make it more appealing to the Guardian subscribers.
Replace Joseph Smith with a graphic novel about Karl Marx and sew elbow patches on a tweed jacket and here ye are, O modern readers.
I would love to know if she is a fan of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion? Perhaps she could translate it into the Irish language.
She is not stephanie Meyer.. Stephanie Meyer didn’t publish any successful work after the twilight series.. sally is different.. she encompasses human emotion and psychological so beautifully in her stories. so please don’t compare. I loved the twilight series but they are just different
@max What are you talking about?
@@morse1883 Mediocrity, what else?
Ha we are doomed there is good literature out there there are people that write excellent pieces of work ive personally seen it but good luck getting it published awarded or worse yet read by anyone... people swallow crap like this whole.
People like Sally rooney are perfect for today because of their pseudo intellectualism just enough to make the reader feel what they are reading is important (although it is regurgitating the same pop ideas you've heard a million times) but not too much because then it would take too much effort to read
Catholic author looks all around the world…...at every country in the world
Hmmm?
Who can I boycott ?
I know!!!!!!!
Jews
😂
I can't imagine anything that would make me want to read this woman's novels less. Repellent.
Haha, what a loser
she is a great novelist.
@@nataliasomsedikova6161 Someone said that to me just yesterday--a fiction teacher. I am willing to believe it. But this interview is skin-crawlingly ghastly.
@@simiancinema2022 heed your instincts. They’re serviceable and enjoyable but her veneration is baffling and risible. To her credit it’s hard to gauge how much of her BS is sincere and you can hardly fault her for playing the game
What is it that you find your repellant about her? V curious.
Criminally overrated writer.
Is "criminally" the best word you could have used, or are you implying something else!
She has a duty to stop writing
Time to cancel this woman for her anti-semitic beliefs?
Nah.
She has said very, very openly that she looks forward to her new book being translated to Hebrew. She has also said that she does want a particular Israeli Publishing House to publish her new novel, because they do not acknowledge the Israeli Government's human rights violations against the Palestinians who live either in Gaza or the West Bank. In my view Sally Rooney did absolutely nothing that was anti Semitic.
not for that, but because her books are shite.
almost as boring as mass
Shockingly average. not even in a bad way wow