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TED-Ed you are my best knowledgeable channel. I an 12 yrs old and my teacher gave me to write biography about famous English writers. Thank you! I am definitely going to write about her.
Hey Kevin, it is a series! Check out our first three installments for "War and Peace," "Frankenstein," and "The Odyssey": ed.ted.com/lessons/why-should-you-read-tolstoy-s-war-and-peace-brendan-pelsue ed.ted.com/lessons/everything-you-need-to-know-to-read-mary-shelley-s-frankenstein-iseult-gillespie ed.ted.com/lessons/everything-you-need-to-know-to-read-homer-s-odyssey-jill-dash And we have a few more coming your way (likely this month), so keep an eye out. Any books or authors you'd love to see us cover in this series? Thanks for watching!
jerhamie ignacio the mind is an endless realm where you can think, dream and be in your own way beyond any limits. Sort of an escape into freedom. Once you’re back in (real) life, you’re bound to succumb to said constraints
Woolf's writings make you ponder. My English teacher and the school librarian were great fans of Virginia but because of the lack of classic readers, they had to exclude her from the library book list. But on seeing my best friend and my love towards her writing, they agreed to stock up a shelf, dedicate a shelf to her. And now whenever I see one of her books in the hands of a fellow student, I can't help but smile at the thought that someone's perspective of life is going to change.
That's lovely. I'd love to know how would you say your own perspective in life has changed by reading Virginia Woolf, but I suppose that'd be too much to ask? heheheh
@@Iza56 lot of them end tragically tho, it's not just writers, anyone with some renown: painters, musicians, actors. many suffer for their art, alot of them have to give their life to be great at what they do.
I wish such groups were still a thing. Like a few people who would just sit and drink coffee and discuss literature or the meaning of life and then go home and create something beautiful
They do exist. They don’t exactly just advertise them on Google you have to make friends who have similar interests and make something like this yourself.
I'm currently reading 'To the lighthouse' by her; never have I ever read any book with such an exquisite depiction of characters' inner worlds; they actually do transcend the reality that surrounds them with their marvellously lurid streams of conscience.
To the Lighthouse is incredibly rich. I've never felt so moved by the written word before. I read Mrs. Dalloway earlier this year. I need to re-read it again after this. Her use of stream of consciousness, and the deep dive into the tiny details... those small things that seem insignificant. And yet life is made up of these insignificances. Nothing I have ever read has made me feel so human.
Can anyone explain what did she mean by this sentence The autumn trees ravaged as they are take on the flesh of tattered flags kindling in the doom of cool cathedral caves where gold letters on marble pages describe death in battle and how bones bleach and burn far away in Indian sands. It's from 'to the lighthouse'
It was my first novel by her that I read and for the first time I felt myself truly represented in a book. The vividness of the mundanity is so delicately interwoven by her, you can't help but be enamoured.
Tirra Was Taken any suggestion where i can begin to read her work. Im not a smart reader.. hehehhe but i always want to be a deep thinker.. the presentation made me see that her complex and somehow disturbing mind somehow mirrors me. Offcourse i dont have her creative prowess.. hehehehe. Im depress as well.. :(
She has short-stories I think! Although her writing is relatively straight-forward, so not too confusing. Haha I relate so much to the "want to be a deep thinker" thing, doesn't come naturally to me though lol
Sadly, Virginia Woolf was a soul that was born about a century before she should have been. If she was still alive today though, I think she would have been impressed by the progress the world has made since she left us :)
I think people like Woolf find themselves at odds with history no matter when they're born. We needed her then as badly as we need people like Woolf now.
@@royshantzis3321 There are people like Virginia woolf in this time too. They are just alienated and we don't know about them. Maybe they don't publish their work because they feel that the people of this century just want to read about dragons and action. Or maybe their work will be discovered in the next century. We need to pay more attention to people around us.
My all time fave line from The Waves .. "It is not one life I look back upon: I am not one person; I am many people; I do not know altogether who I am ... Or how to distinguish my life from their's. I feel like this is me. Weird.
I feel this way often, from my teens to my 20's, I was very different, or perhaps I was as I am just less realized, less solid, or am I currently as illusory should I reflect in the future... She was a fascinating author, far before her time
Hi Dewi! We're so glad you like the video. The pre-production stage of our pipeline (which includes concept, writing, editing, and fact checking) took about a month and a half. In terms of scripts, this is about as quick as it gets. The production portion (including recording voiceover, design, animation, music, and sound effects) took roughly 2.5 months, which is also one of the faster productions for a piece of this length. All told, about four months, and we loved pretty much every minute of making it.
TED-Ed and in that four months how many people worked on this piece and pieces like this? I want full credits for all the amazing human beings that worked on this. Virginia Woolf never seemed interesting to me until now. But to be fair, all that was told to us in high school was that she was writer who ended her own life.
@@TEDEd You guys are so hardworking! It's astonishing that a video which is about 6 minutes long is a fabrication of 4 months' hardwork...you are doing absolutely wonderful job! Keep up the good work and keep on prospering 👍👏
I read "A Room of One's Own" this year and so far it's my favorite book that I have read this year I found it brilliant, and woolf style of writing and writing itself incredible. She has become one of my favorite authors by far
This came at the right time! I had just picked up a copy of Orlando and begun reading. It wasn't mentioned in this video, but I would totally suggest reading her book "Jacob's Room", too, as it was her first modernist novel (she had one short story written in the same style and two conventional novels before it). Beautiful animation work on this video, by the way.
Orlando’s my favorite. I read it probably 20 years ago and I still remember the line ‘hens laid incessantly eggs on no special tint’ lol. I love everything by Virginia but Orlando holds a special place for me.
I remember when I was in high school I started to practice for SAT because I wanted to go to the US to study abroad. One of the first reading exercise I did was an excerpt from Woolfe's A Room of One's Own. I hadn't been exposed much to foreign literature so I was so so struck by her prose and the power it carried. It was truly amazing and worth rereading every time
I came across a hauntingly beautiful poetry book that had a Virginia Woolf vibe to it, “12:12 Midnight” by Danielle Ever Rose “From the wounded soul, comes poetry and music. In return, music and poetry heals the soul.”🎶 It was a great read.
Of all the videos this channel has to offer, I personaly believe the art videos are the most fulfilling and beautiful. Great work, congratulations to everyone involved.
☘ To anybody who's reading this, May the dark thoughts, the overthinking, and the doubt exit your mind. when you hear music so bright and powerful all the negativity leaves your body and makes you feel amazing. May clarity replaces confusion. May peace and calmness fill your life. There are a lot of languages in the world but music is the language which connects all of us. May your life be full of joy, strength, light, and ease. Whatever is hurting you or whatever you are constantly stressing about gets better.
Works of art -- the books were killed, destoryed to birth, to reincarnate, this work of art -- this video. Thank you for bringing this cycle to its own, another climax, whatever form it takes.
Maybe I'm just a bad reader but I find her works extensive what I mean is it takes me twice or three times to read to finally understand what she means in one paragraph
I've read hundreds upon hundreds of books of all types from all over the world. Never connected with her in the slightest. Some great women authors out there. Some forgotten, take for instance Marie Corelli. Her "The Sorrows of Satan" was the first Novel ever to be considered a Best Seller in the Press. Never hear about her though, but I'm happy one of my friends got me a copy.
I have found the same, although it is not altogether an unpleasant experience. I think it helps a lot to read and then discuss, it seems to me that is the intention.
i came here trying to gain motivation again to continue her book to the light house but after i found out how she was problematic i couldn't find the energy to put into reading it again. But i will however go on and read her book orlando since it seems quite interesting
Virginia Woolf is better with context- I've only read Jacob's Room and Mrs Dalloway and both were a hard read to get into. It was somehow so simple- both relatively small books about fairly ordinary things- but the way it was done and the way I had to think to read it was a challenge. When I started watching biopics of her life and why she wrote the way she did and what she was trying to say it suddenly clicked. I still had to take my time to really absorb what was happening on each page- it's not one to read on autopilot- but my appreciation for her work grew immensely and it made so much more sense even changing the way I saw artistic expression and the world
One of the most beautiful things i've ever saw about Virginia. Brought me to tears. Thank you so much all the crew involved for existence of this video.
what a beautiful video/animation/illustration.. I often heard about Virginia Woolf's works but haven't read any of them. Sounds like a tragic yet very insightful writings, really interesting..
Do more videos about these authors and their works of writing! This was really well done and the animation keeps getting better and better each video! Keep up the great work!
The closest thing that I can remember them doing to a complete author study is the video on "what makes something Kafkaesque", though it doesn't go into a full biography. There's also other single-work videos like the Tolstoy one, but the only one I can think of off the top of my head is the The Wizard of Oz one... (The "what makes something Orwellian" video focuses more on the word than on the work or the man, but I guess that one should be counted too.)
Pietro Gagliardi how could I even forgot videos about about Kafkaesque and Orwellian! It's just amazing and rewarding to watch these beautifully animated videos. I certainly want to read Woolf because of this video, though previously I'm afraid of her writing style that is famous for being hard to read.
It is a pure joy to watch this video. In order to understand the works of Virginia Woolf, her personal life must be taken into consideration. She writes from the depth of the words which has layers upon layers and the reader gets lost into the world of each character.
I feel like Orlando has a pretty sick deal, I personally would love to be functionally immortal and change genders and bodies. As long as my best friend has that power too!
This was amazing!! Virginia Woolf is one of my favorite authors of all time. So I had to see this video. I was not disappointed. I believe everyone should try reading a Virginia Woolf book at least once in their life. Also the art in this video was really beautiful.
In our 12th grade curriculum we have one lesson of Woolf, 'The New Dress'......... while my fellow friends hated the lesson for its mind boggling vocabulary and paragraph long sentences, I wondered, what complexity an author has to undergo, to write such a masterpiece... It's tragic to find she drowned herself.. RIP
Could you make a Why Should You Read for Ursula K. Le Guin? I think her career, similar to Woolf’s, also demands a video summarizing its entirety rather than recommending one singular book.
You should definitely read Woolf if you want to feel anxious, lost, depressed, sad, helpless, misunderstood, and very much alone. Love her books actually.
The visual clips here are breathtakingly beautiful. It is organic where one wants to go back to this video for both the convincing explanation on why one may consider Woolf's works plus the brilliance of the visuals aiding the explanation so well.
Sorry I just have to comment this.. the art used for animation in this video is absolutely, ABSOLUTELY beautiful that it distracts me from the story. I do have to repeat several times to understand the context being talked about, but it is interesting though how I get to see slightly different perspective everytime I go back and rewatch the animation.
This is amazing animation! I couldn't take my eyes off the screen for even a second. But perhaps I'll have to rewatch or rather rehear what was being said as I was completely spellbound by the beautiful art before me.
This video was absolutely stunning! You can really tell how much time and care was put into this video, from the art, to the information, to go so far as to even link the viewer to an audio book! Liked!
The Science Biome He’s a fairly easy read. I only know him by his philosophy book “What is Art?” I’d definitely recommend him if you’re interested in art philosophy.
I've only read his essay 'What is Art?' and his short novel 'The Death of Ivan Ilych', but I think he is a superb writer! I definitely want to read more of his work. Ted-Ed has a wonderful video about his novel Peace & War if you're interested though.
I've only read his essay 'What is Art?' and his short novel 'The Death of Ivan Ilych', but I think he is a superb writer! I definitely want to read more of his work. Ted-Ed has a wonderful video about his novel Peace & War if you're interested though.
Lenshy same, i bought her novel To the Lighthouse last year and didn't bother to read it until now when I read All the Bright Places. Finch was obsessed with her and I only got to know about her taking her own life from this novel even thou we did study her at school and no body told us about it.
One must truly want to die, to suppress the body's own instinctual reflexes in the face of impeding death, while you coolly walk with stones in your coat pockets into the river Ouse to drown.