Jonty Claypole

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11,327 appearances 34 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 3d ago

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Secret Life of Books · Greek Lessons by Han Kang · 11 Aug 2026 podcast

And so the way I I feel that the book is meant to work on us is at a sublinguistic level that over the course of the book. voice-verified

The words she's using, the images she's using, the form of the book, where she's placing words, they're all working on us at another level as well. voice-verified

And the obscurity and the lack of simplicity is the point she's making. voice-verified

And so the narrative story of a man and a woman coming drawn closer and closer together until they finally kiss, which is almost Jane Austen sort of parody to the voice-verified

Point of ridiculousness. voice-verified

She's she's got that because it just gives her the faintest anchor to hang all these other things that she's doing. voice-verified

Without that, the novel would completely uh unravel. voice-verified

So so it's really like the sort of clothes hanger that that everything else is hanging off. voice-verified

Something that I haven't really seen written about much, but the f but th the book is essentially a rewrite or deeply inspired by voice-verified

A film by the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman called Persona. voice-verified

Persona, which was Bergman made in 1966, is one of those art house films that is generally in the top ten of any list of the greatest films ever made. voice-verified

And it's a it's an experimental film, and the the story mirrors what happens in in Greek lessons. voice-verified

It's about an actress who has suddenly stopped speaking. voice-verified

She she's become mute. voice-verified

And what has prompted this is partly her kind of alienation from her husband and her son, exactly as the woman in this story is. voice-verified

And it's also her distress at the wider violence in the world. voice-verified

So into the film are put images from the Vietnam War and images of the Holocaust that she is repulsed by and have driven her to muteness. voice-verified

And so I've I think that that. voice-verified

element of violence th that is contributing or human violence that is contributing to the woman's silence in Greek lessons is implied by the similarities of this book to voice-verified

The film persona, which it is deeply inspired by. voice-verified

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