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RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/116940809367811910

Happy birthday, William Thackeray (b. 7/18/1811)!

#UnofficialDiaryDates #Thackeray

Meine Kinder fragen mich, warum ich noch linear fernsehe. Hier sind zwei gute Gründe:

1. Allein wäre ich nie auf die Idee gekommen, die siebenteilige Verfilmung von Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeiten in der #Mediathek abzurufen. Ich bin zufällig in die Ausstrahlung bei #One reingeraten und habe dann alle Folgen gebingewatcht, weil sie so unterhaltsam und interessant waren. Es gibt sie auch im Original mit Untertiteln. Diese Verfilmung ist sprachlich modernisiert, aber inhaltlich ziemlich originalgetreu. Was sehr praktisch ist, denn der Originaltext ist für den heutigen Geschmack etwas zu umständlich formuliert.
2. Derselbe #ARD-Sender strahlt derzeit wieder Parlament aus – #Edutainment im allerbesten Sinne für alle, die endlich verstehen wollen, wie die EU funktioniert. Dass man sich dabei schlapplacht, schadet dem Anliegen überhaupt nicht. Inzwischen gibt es Staffel 4.

#Mediathekperlen #ARDone #Gesellschaftskritik #Satire #Klassikerverfilmung #Thackeray #VanityFair #Parliament

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
William Makepeace Thackeray

#mothersday #mother #books #bookstodon #quotes #quote #Thackeray #God #children #hearts @bookstodon #reading #today #holiday

@IngridHbn

Beautiful but boring film. I thought the book would be better, but it is awful.

#movies #kubrick #thackeray

Fake it till you make it - was that the motto of #VictorianWriters like #WilkieCollins, the #Brontës, #Thackeray & #Stevenson? Find our more in Ellen Stockstill's study of Victorian documentary novels of 4 genres, incl #LifeWriting

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1856797937

#VictorianLiterature

E' morto #RyanONeal ovvero colui che interpretò l'irlandese #RedmondBarry che per un tratto della sua incredibile vita è stato anche il nobile #BarryLyndon raccontato dal film di #StanleyKubrick tratto dal romanzo di #Thackeray , ovvero il film in assoluto più bello della storia del cinema* che qualsiasi essere umano dovrebbe vedere prima di morire 🎦

#RIP ⚰️

*ovviamente secondo me

Man standing: "What's the book?"

Man lying in bed (or woman sitting reading to him?): "'Vanity Fair.'"

Man standing: "A rather long yarn for a young man these days."

Still from a #movie whose name I don't remember. And I call myself a cinephile. I can't even pick who the actors are. Maybe this was the only memorable scene & dialogue, though I would like to watch it again to find out.

Have to say, I've always been partial to long yarns, though I am yet to read #Thackeray.

Probably gonna read #Stendhal soon, never read him despite my deep love for #Thackeray and #Tolstoy who seem to have followed in his footsteps. Maybe also #Dostoevsky? Someone must have written about the influence of #Napoleon on the 19th century novel

Also I think #Tolstoy was reading #Thackeray when he was fighting in the Crimean War? And #Shklovsky was writing literary criticism on the other front from #Wittgenstein. Could be fun to write something on "What we read while fighting." Or even "What pacifists read at war." Not that they all necessarily became pacifists. Just thinking aloud...

@Richard_Littler Thackerays "Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeiten" is a known classical novel in Germany also.

#Thackeray
#JahrmarktDerEitelkeiten
#Brocki

@jonwesleyhuff
#Tolstoy
#GeorgeEliot
#ThomasHardy
#GrahamGreene
#Thackeray
#Celine
#Dostoevsky

#Philosophy : #Nietzsche #Schopenhauer #Spinoza #Pyrrho #Pascal #Montaigne #Lucretius #Elias #Althusser #Jaynes #McGilchrist, and I'm also interested in #Darwin #Epicurus #Zhuangzi #Laozi #Taoism #Buddhism #Helmholtz

I studied #literature : #Thackeray #Tolstoy #GeorgeEliot #Strindberg #Celine #Dostoevsky #Pushkin #Chekhov #Rimbaud #HartCrane #ThomasHardy #DHLawrence

Also love #film : #Bergman #MichaelPowell #Ozu #Mizoguchi #Fellini #Cassavetes #Losey #Wilder #Bresson #Truffaut #Marker