I loved Jude from the beginning. I wanted to sit on the floor with him and hold him without saying a word. I think it was tragic but with a purpose and poetry. He is a fighter and he still has a heart through it all. I wish he was with a woman cause I think he wasn’t gay and he needed the kindness of a woman. I am going to read your other book. I think you’re a genius. Thank you and keep writing please. Jude actually woke up my need to be more kind cause you just don’t know when you are around a Jude and I wanna be gentle weather I knew it or not.
This book and the reactions on it are so interesting. Remember the colleagues does not like Jude. Mrs. Yanaghira wrote they feared him. So being such a good a lawyer makes him need to avoid any of his strong emotions. I guess he is quite harsh on his job. Only we can understand him with his history makes us feel with him. For me the book is an super interesting study on a narcissistic Charakter. Maybe like Hamsuns Book *Hunger* on a different issue. (sry for bad English)
It is Judes own reflection. He red a book about Narcissem instead going to the Therapy Session. He was circling around himself and he was aware about it but could not solve it. Mrs. Y. said in a interview that she want to talk about this redemption narrativ. For Jude too many things go wrong how sould he circling and struggling with himself.
that’s just playing into societally constructed gender roles. willem was the best person for him, for more than their romantic relationship but also as a companion because of their long history and trust. he made jude feel safe, loved, and he made him happy. truly happy. jude doesn’t want someone to be overwhelmingly kind to him, he would most likely perceive it as fake especially because all of his abusers appeared nice. willem was kind to him, he’s a kind person and he doesn’t have to be a woman to convey that because it’s authentic.
One question that kept bothering me while I was reading the book: how do you read text with all its excesses? Do you read it as a conventional realist fiction and take all the excesses at face value? Or can you, despite Yanagihara's assertions on the contrary, read it as something like a commentary on the act of reading itself and our being hung-up on meanings? I am just curious as to how you people read the novel's excesses and evasions.
I don’t have a problem with excesses. They don’t stress me out. I’m not sitting there thinking that the writer is doing something wrong or breaking rules or bending rules, I’m just taking it in. I find it a treat when a novel doesn’t just describe reality, but instead expands my mind to new boundaries of reality. I guess what I’m saying is that I’m not personally judging the writer as a writer as much as I’m engaged in the story.
It's like.. she gives such a complex or emotional explanation and she just says "mhm" and moves to the second question..like comment on it a little bit idk
@@toruwatanabe2095 I assume it's bc the Language which the interview uses is English. And obviously, she isn't native English speaker so she couldn't really find the exact words to describe her thoughts too! I am not a native English speaker as you can see and I completely get the struggle she had during the interview.
wow I wanna sit in a cafe and just talk and talk and talk with her
Her voice is so soothing
Low key anxiety over the interviewer but loved the writer talk
In case you missed, listen to this story Hanya shared @49:20 omg
That was chilling.
I loved Jude from the beginning. I wanted to sit on the floor with him and hold him without saying a word. I think it was tragic but with a purpose and poetry. He is a fighter and he still has a heart through it all. I wish he was with a woman cause I think he wasn’t gay and he needed the kindness of a woman. I am going to read your other book. I think you’re a genius. Thank you and keep writing please. Jude actually woke up my need to be more kind cause you just don’t know when you are around a Jude and I wanna be gentle weather I knew it or not.
This book and the reactions on it are so interesting. Remember the colleagues does not like Jude. Mrs. Yanaghira wrote they feared him. So being such a good a lawyer makes him need to avoid any of his strong emotions. I guess he is quite harsh on his job. Only we can understand him with his history makes us feel with him. For me the book is an super interesting study on a narcissistic Charakter. Maybe like Hamsuns Book *Hunger* on a different issue. (sry for bad English)
Robert West why you think jude was a narcissist character??
It is Judes own reflection. He red a book about Narcissem instead going to the Therapy Session. He was circling around himself and he was aware about it but could not solve it. Mrs. Y. said in a interview that she want to talk about this redemption narrativ. For Jude too many things go wrong how sould he circling and struggling with himself.
"The kindness of a woman"? Willem was a prime example of men who are capable of being kind.
that’s just playing into societally constructed gender roles. willem was the best person for him, for more than their romantic relationship but also as a companion because of their long history and trust. he made jude feel safe, loved, and he made him happy. truly happy. jude doesn’t want someone to be overwhelmingly kind to him, he would most likely perceive it as fake especially because all of his abusers appeared nice. willem was kind to him, he’s a kind person and he doesn’t have to be a woman to convey that because it’s authentic.
43:45 - 44:02 HIT HARD 😭 I hope Jude and Willem find eachother again
What an uncomfortable session to watch. I found the interviewer was incredibly hostile!
Agreed- and yet the writer remains gracious. Major respect
Living in Australia, I have seen Jude’s predicament in Aborigines…this makes us look deeper into our society, our complicity.
Wow
One question that kept bothering me while I was reading the book: how do you read text with all its excesses? Do you read it as a conventional realist fiction and take all the excesses at face value? Or can you, despite Yanagihara's assertions on the contrary, read it as something like a commentary on the act of reading itself and our being hung-up on meanings? I am just curious as to how you people read the novel's excesses and evasions.
I don’t have a problem with excesses. They don’t stress me out. I’m not sitting there thinking that the writer is doing something wrong or breaking rules or bending rules, I’m just taking it in. I find it a treat when a novel doesn’t just describe reality, but instead expands my mind to new boundaries of reality. I guess what I’m saying is that I’m not personally judging the writer as a writer as much as I’m engaged in the story.
Is this the woman behind all that trauma and violence? OMG!
I find this interviewer very rude and irritating she doesn't come prepared with the question. She don't like the book I guess 😂
These chairs are uncomfortable.
Why i felt uncomfortable watching this? Just uncomfortable cuz of that interviewer 😏
It's like.. she gives such a complex or emotional explanation and she just says "mhm" and moves to the second question..like comment on it a little bit idk
@@toruwatanabe2095 I assume it's bc the Language which the interview uses is English. And obviously, she isn't native English speaker so she couldn't really find the exact words to describe her thoughts too! I am not a native English speaker as you can see and I completely get the struggle she had during the interview.
amazing.
Who did the interview?
0:10 Ruth Joos