Le Compte
de Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas author of The Man in The Iron Mask http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-iron-mask-aka-le-masque-de-fer.html and many other popular books
9 out 10
You must
watch the remarkable L’Autre Dumas, with Gerard Depardieu in top form as
Alexandre Dumas and Benoit Poelvoorde -one of the greatest actors in the world,
though few would know his name, and even fewer would be able to pronounce it
(maybe this is just the wrong feeling, seeming as it looks so complicated to
me) the one who shocked the cinephiles in Man Bites Dog aka C’est Arrive Pres
De Chez Vous http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/02/cest-arrive-pres-de-chez-vous-aka-man.html what a phenomenon!
In L’Autre
Dumas we find that Auguste Maquet, played by mesmerizing Benoit Poelvoorde in
the adaptation for the big screen – may have been the ghost writer , and hence
the author of some of the most celebrated novels…I think I have read in The
Russian Girl http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-russian-girl-by-magister-ludi.html by Magister Ludi Kingsley Amis
about Dumas
It said
that he has had African ancestry, maybe the grandmother was black, I forgot
what exactly was the relative, maybe it was his grandfather, and it could well
be in another book that this mentioned, together with other personal
information on some of the other authors…more important would be Intellectuals
by brilliant Paul Johnson http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/06/intellectuals-by-paul-johnson.html
Intellectuals
lets us look behind the curtain, into the writing room, sometimes the bedroom
of luminaries like Leo Tolstoy, Henrik Ibsen, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Jacques
Rousseau and others…Rousseau was so abominable as to leave his children at the
door of the orphanage, at a time when nine out of ten died in such
circumstances, but there are vile things the others have done, and many
celebrated men
Le Compte
de Monte Cristo is one of the best stories, and a very entertaining one, at
least for a teenager, as I was when I first read it, in the meantime, I have
seen some adaptations for the big or small screen and did not find them all
that exhilarating, due to a lack of sophistication perhaps, this is not Marcel
Proust after all
Marcel
Proust is in fact the standard http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/06/un-amour-de-swan-by-marcel-proust.html as in nec plus ultra, nobody will
take him off the pedestal, he is the best there is for yours truly, and though
Le Compte de Monte Cristo is a good adventure book, there is a feeling that I
would waste my time, if I were to take it up again now, or even if it were the
first time, it lacks the amplitude
As it is,
we are outraged when Edmond Dantes is unjustly taken to this awful prison, just
because his enemy Mondego wants to take all, including Mercedes - by the way,
have I read somewhere that the luxury brand also takes the name from a woman
called Mercedes, and what a joke it was a few years back, when they still used
their ad slogan ‘nothing but the best’, only they were losing serious ground
against their main rivals, Audi and BMW, so the blague was change the line to
‘nothing but third best’
Dantes
becomes somehow the epitome of the conquering hero, rising like the Phoenix
bird from the ashes, he tumbles to the lowest point, a nadir reached in that
terrible prison, and then finds this other prisoner, who gives him the secret
of the treasure, then opportunely dies, so that our protagonist can use this
tragic event to masquerade as a corpse and then climb back to the very top…we
all know about this, right?
Harvard
Professor Tal Ben Shahar had the most popular lectures in the history of that
venerable institution, and the videos are available online, if you are
interested, lessons on positive psychology, the art of happiness, mixing in
those precious courses scenes from classic movies, such as Dead Poets Society, Seinfeld,
comedians sagesse, Ellen De Generes is mentioned a few times, with insight into
the life of the academic http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/04/choose-life-you-want-by-tal-ben-shahar.html
one of the
mantras, the leit motifs is ‘learn to fail or fail to learn’ and we have the
example of someone who went to work at The White House, in the most powerful
administration in the world, near the center of tremendous power, after a
superb evolution and then…committed suicide, because in this phenomenal climb
to the top, he had never encountered a crisis, failure, and when a traumatic
experience came about, the adversity could not be coped with and the remarkable
fellow collapsed.
Thus, it
makes sense to include a rule that deals with this kind of challenge, one you
find in the majestic book by another happiness scholar, Sonja Lyubomirsky, from
the West Coast of America, The How of Happiness http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-how-of-happiness-by-sonja.html has included ‘Happiness
Activity No 6: Developing Strategies for Coping-practicing ways to endure or
surmount hardship or trauma’
Indeed,
this is one element which is important in The Count of Monte Cristo, the way he
deals with the massive fall into that dungeon is admirable, and then his story
is one that can offer quite a few lessons in bravery, resilience – I mean,
think about it, you and me would probably just disintegrate on the floor of
that goddamn awful place and just wait in misery to have it all end and soon,
presto, today, not later…
On the
other hand, let us think of Fyodor Dostoyevsky http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/06/notes-from-underground-by-fyodor.html who had been condemned to death and
then pardoned in the last minute, as he was standing in front of the execution
squad, went on to write how the man on death row (they were almost all men
surely) would rather live on a bare rock in the middle of the ocean than die
You may
wish to ask me about this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world or perhaps learn about the 1989
Revolution http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html
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