Will Self In Conversation
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- čas přidán 14. 10. 2024
- A sharp-eyed, merciless commentator on modern times and modern mores, from the sublime to the ridiculous - no one writes quite like Will Self. Join us for a conversation with the cult author, broadcaster and critic about his recent memoir Will.
A prolific and celebrated journalist and author of both nonfiction and fiction, his previous books include Umbrella (shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize), Shark, and The Book of Dave.
Hosted by Hugh Odling Smee.
‘Darkly angelic prose… a joy to read, with the final part in particular recalling David Foster Wallace at his best’ Alex Preston, Observer
‘Self’s writing has the same technicolour velocity, malign comedy as his best novels’ Evening Standard
Begins 7.30pm
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Always great to hear mister Self. Respect from Brazil.
Thanks for uploading. Will seems like a much more amiable person than some would have you believe.
Getting off drugs and the attendant instability and guilt involved has surely helped. Good for him! 🌈🦉
Thanks for posting this extended discussion!
Thank you - this was brilliantly entertaining. Thanks to Hugh- great hosting and letting Will flow!
Glad you enjoyed it!
rocking the gamer headset
Call out from Alaska, many thanks for the posting. Awesometacular
Thanks for this. I have not read Will, as yet, but was looking forward to hearing him talk about the book, in Norwich, before the dreaded lockdown kicked in. I do hope he does come here, before too long. I must say that I always find him fascinating to listen to speaking, on whatever subject, even if I do not always agree with him, although I very often do! Also, if you still have not read his trilogy, I highly recommend it. Each book is quite unique, and challenging, but pays off, in the end. I think the third one, Phone, is his best, and I hope he stays well and comes through this nightmarish time, relatively unscathed. Lord Self? I think he is more of a King! ✌️
The idea that if critics disagree among themselves then the artist is right comes from O Wilde.
Props for the NES N64 and Gamecube in the background. CRT retro gaming?
Me and my friend John called it "the dizzy game", i wonder if he did drugs as well!
Freedom 🏴🏴 from corvid 19 and lockdown 😵😷💉
I think Will Self is clever, but he is bigoted?
He’s dull and I think he’s clearly a very bookish person who is well immersed in high culture as one would expect from a privately educated Oxford university educated man. But I think he’s psychologically confused even with his own ideas
@@TerryStewart32
Thanks Nathan!
I agree! Well put!
I think he would be the first to use the word pseudointellectualism but alas perhaps not about himself. Ha, ha.
He perhaps seems to me to be strongly opinionated about what is just in his mind and what is a failure in people's tastes, almost as if his opinions go without saying.
@@sherlockholmeslives.1605 the way he articulated himself also isn’t very good. He’s a poor communicator and user of the English language. Having an extremely large vocabulary doesn’t make someone a good speaker of the English language. Christopher Hitchens was a master of the English language at the sentence level. He spoke in well formed literary sentences and paragraphs whereas Will Self just uses a lot of words often obscure words that doesn’t illuminate his ideas or function as an effective way to communicate his thought
@@TerryStewart32
Absolutely Nathan!
Why say misconstrued in some sentences he may say when the word misunderstood works just as well in many cases? Leave misconstrued to the famous Paul Simon song? Or even bigger words when they can be said more understandably by smaller more simple words?
"Any fool can make something complex but it takes a genius to make it simple."
Pete Seeger ( 1919 - 2014 )
"Everything should be made as simple as possible but not too simple."
Albert Einstein ( 1879 - 1955 )
@@sherlockholmeslives.1605 I don’t believe words have size that are big or small. I just believe words or an individual’s vocabulary should furnish a sentence or idea to a pristine point. Christopher Hitchens can be ostentatious with language but his sentences and paragraphs are elegantly form that it’s like listening to an audiobook of the best prose in the English language. Will Self doesn’t do this but utter a lot of obscure words that forms pretentious sentences that prevents clarity of any point he’s trying to express