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A professor of English talks about 19th Century novels: plot summary, literary analysis, author biography, historical and cultural context. Each episode closely examines one 19th Century novel.
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Thursday Jul 25, 2024
Thursday Jul 25, 2024
Chapters 11-13: 0:00—Family history. 5:23—Racial diversity. 6:36—Addy de Luce. 9:43— Léonie’s desires. 12:41—A feverish depravity. 14: 27—Perversely admirable. 16:30— Couperus & Léonie & the fin de siècle. 20:38—Addy & Doddy. 21:18—Addy & Léonie. 23:51—Interlude.
Chapters 14-16: 24:06—Léonie doesn’t object. 25:33—Addy & Theo. 27:26—Sun worship. 30:05—Theo & si-Oudijck. 33:24—Otto Van Oudijck. 35:27—Housekeeping. 38:08—Residents. 39:19—Life under life. 40:54—The language of the unconscious. 43:20—Volcanism. 46:25—Male blindness. 48:12—Interlude.
Chapter 17: 48:07—Bowing submissively. 51:44—A world created. 53:12—The hidden force. 54:40—Resident & regent. 55:59—Secret language, metaphor & mystery. 1:00:17—Closing.
Text: Louis Couperus, The Hidden Force. Translated by Alexander Texiera de Mattos; revised and edited by E.M. Beekman. Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1985.
Interludes: Richard Strauss, Salome (1905), performed by the Orchestra of the Hamburg State Opera, Karl Böhm conductor, 1971, Deutsche Grammophon recording, Internet Archive.
Illustration: Louis Couperus in Java, 1899 (detail), Der Groene Amsterdamer
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