Dear Advanced 2 students,
welcome to our readingclub and I hope you enjoy practising your English!
Before we go on commenting our new short story "Goodbye Mother" by British writer Hanif Kureishi, I am attaching here an interview from the BBC (Open2.net) where the author talks about the writer's task in Contemporary literature, his writing methodology and routine, reading preferences, using real people as fictional characters and lots of other interesting stuff. Feel free to comment whatever and do not worry about your mistakes, practice makes the mastery of a language. Have a very nice weekend!
http://www.open2.net/writing/hanifkureshi.html
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Hello all, I do not know if anyone could view the interview but I don't. I've tried from two diferents networks and I couldn't reach the www.open2.net web page.
Regards
DMM
Hello everybody. I didn't have any kind of problems in getting access to this web page. It was just cliked in the link. However, it took me long to be connected.
Regards
Hi there!
I am glad you've started using the blog at last!
About the interview, once you are there by using the link, click on "saving this mp3 file to your computer" and then you can listen to it if you chose "abrir" or save it ("guardar").
Please, you should be finishing the short story by next week since I will be posting some questions for you to answer.
Pss, just some advice: it's "hello everyone/everybody", not "hello all". See you today in class
Hello everybody.I find very interesting the following point in the Kureishi's interview: The reasons why people want to write their memories, is that they want to say things that they haven't had the opportunity to say before.
People in the books become imaginative like we want and not they werw in the real life.
Regards
AGIL
Hello everyone,
I agree with AGIL. I listened the interview Hanif Kuershi and I reckon that is really interesting when he pointed out that 'PEOPLE OFTEN WANT TO WRITE THEIR MEMOIRS BECAUSE THEY WANT TO SAY THINGS THAT THEY HAVEN'T HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SAY BEFORE'. To my mind, people should have concentrate on things which are really important and if they have the necessity to speak or write they must do it freely. In all world exists people who had lived all experiences which maybe could teach something, so I consider that all of us could learn and apply in our life.
See you,
GVP
Dear students,
Definitely, people tend to write because they would like someone else to read it, not just for the sake of it although some authors would probably deny this assumption. That's what we were talking about some time ago when we attempted to analyze Helen Mirren's memoirs (an interview from the BBC).Indeed, Kureishi has usually focused on characters' inability to express themselves, mainly if we think about male characters as Richard, the protagonist in "Goodbye Mother". Have you noticed that while reading the short story? How would you describe him?
I also agree with AGV about people's right to express themselves but unfortunately this is not always the case even in a modern world. By the way, remember the Subject+verb+object pattern in English ("There are people all over the world"). Thanks for your contributions. I hope you had a very nice weekend
Hello everybody: I have just entered the blog and I have just listened the interview. I am convinced it is very interesting to be able write what people want to say, not only memoirs, ideas.. but also to express emotions, feelings. Besides it is a good therapy for the writer and for the reader,so we can identify ourselves with the characters.
Regards
MHG
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