🇳🇱 Colonialism reflected in Literature (Part 1) 

I agree! That's fascinating to learn about! 🙏

Interesting!! Thank you so much for sharing 🙏

I'm glad 🙏

marie..k101 - me too! Peace, Gus :)

Thank you... ☺

What you offer in content is totally up my street, so thank you, I could happily watch your offerings as daily not weekly, but maybe that's just greedy of me!

Wow, that's an amazing reading project! Thank you for sharing 🙏

I think generally speaking it's probably Harry Mulisch, who together with Gerard Reve and W.F. Hermans often is named as "the great three". Jan Wolkers, Simon Vestdijk, Remco Campert are also names I'd consider prominent. Concerning more recent writers, maybe Arnon Grunberg? As for older ones, Joost van den Vondel and P.C. Hooft. Famous writers that are mostly famous for a single book are Anne Frank and Multatuli (the latter of whom also wrote about the treatment of people in the "Dutch East Indies" so a good fit for the topic at hand.) For Flemish, I'd say Hugo Claus and Louis Paul Boon.

Recent ones: Hella Haasse, Harry Mulisch, Cees Nooteboom, Gerard Reve. Older ones: Louis Couperus, Multatuli, Hildebrandt, Joost van den Vondel. Just a few I like ☺️

Hmmm...?

Thank you. I think I can only answer your first question: It's very similar and for me, having German as my mother tongue, Dutch was very easy to learn. I understood some of it already, the grammar is basically the same, many words are very similar and the only difficult thing is learning how to pronounce certain words. Imo it's very obvious that they have a common ancestor.

I just immediately added those to my to-read list. Sounds like its' right up my street! Thank you 🙏

@@strange.lucidity I'm glad. You're welcome. I am enjoying your channel by the way. I just bought a copy of _The Black Lake_ I have to wonder if the title is in anyway connected to the painting _Approaching Thunderstorm_ by M J Heade (1859). Oh yes and I noticed you use the same illustration as I used in my recent video about the British Colonies. The internet is an incredible thing!

Never heard of it. You like it?

What do you mean?

@@strange.lucidityUniversity Major

We don't really have the terms major/minor here. So I simply do a bachelors degree in comparative literature :-) @@mohammad_physics

mohammad_physics - as a sub and member of this channel and not the content creator, it's not my place to attempt to answer your question in a technical way, as it appears to have been asked, - but from a personal perspective, Maria's "speciality" resides in her humanity and unquestionable decency, her obvious concerns re real peoples lives and experiences, particularly human suffering - not something as "tangible" as can be nailed down by an academic label. Peace, Gus

@@gusriley9785 sir, i understand you. I agree with you idea that lady Maria is good woman. And the Manner of speech I like it so i asking lady @strange.lucidity

Hi, in terms of the Faust project: I do plan on continuing it, the fact is just that I'm in the midst of all my first semester exams at the moment and I just have less time to make content that a) has nothing to do with my studies at the moment and b) is an incredible amount of work to prepare. And the Faust project is both of those things. I'm glad you like the project and I can assure you there's more German-lit content on the way though :-) This series here is me trying out how I feel talking about history and, to a small extent, politics. I'm pretty sure I don't want to keep doing it in a big way. I'm staying out of politics more than anyone I know in my life. It doesn't really suit my interests. But again, this course I liked, it was illuminating, and I thought I'd share it. Because I have a lot of connections to the Netherlands it just peaked my interests. That's really it. And I don't really appreciate being cornered "woke" for that in (what to me sounds like) a condescending way. Is one not allowed to talk about history now? Anyways, if you do decide to unsubscribe, I'm wishing you all the best and goodbye :-)

Oh, so talking about history is woke now 😐

@@eliasE989 WELL put!!!!!! Peace, Gus.

@@strange.lucidity Spot on response! Stick to your principles Maria! - Peace, Gus.

@@strange.lucidity You’re right, I overreacted. For the record, I clicked at your video right after watching this one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-niiF8hCSrYQ.html. so there you have it… Anyway, I’m glad you will continue with Faust project at some point. Of course, when you’ll recapture the proper mood. It is like writing poetry, so no hurry… Best, G