Renovating Realism. Re-Reading Cora Sandel's Alberte and Freedom. In Conversation With Tone Selboe

Tone Selboe, University of Oslo, Norway, walks us through
Norwegian author Cora Sandel's Paris and helps us drift through
the thickets of literary modernism and realism. We talk about
existences on the margin, painting with words and writing the
moving body in this equally sensual and intellectual novel that
has followed both Tone and Stefanie throughout their reading
lives. We also welcome Cecilia Falkman, nordlitt's new student
assistant. She navigates the technical and organizational aspects
while bringing the perspective of a first-time reader to our
conversation.


(00:00:15) Introducing Cecilia Falkman


(00:02:44) Introducing Tone Selboe


(00:07:31) Teaching, Study, and Communication


(00:10:55) Why Cora Sandel?


(00:12:40) Introducing Cora Sandel


(00:19:35) Contextualizing Cora Sandel’s Novels


(00:25:39) Breaking with the Establishment


(00:29:46) Modernism and Its Relation to Realism


(00:37:11) Introducing the Alberte-Series


(00:48:51) Alberte’s Social Context in Paris


(00:54:15) Foreshadowing and Backshadowing


(00:57:48) Descriptions and Use of Languages


(01:01:00) Objectification of Female Bodies


(01:11:26) Race and Gender in the Final Scene of “Alberte and
Freedom”


(01:12:55) Sexuality, Motherhood and the Young Woman as an Artist


(01:22:48) Spaces and Movements


(01:31:25) Thinking, Feeling and Reading


(01:35:40) Translations and Style


(01:39:47) The Notion of Writing


(01:42:40) The Notion of Trauma


(01:44:39) Walking and Eroticism


(01:46:44) What Advice Would You Give Your Student-Self?


Bibliography, further information and comments are available on
Experiment Geisteswissenschaft


https://exgeist.hypotheses.org


Idea and conception: Stefanie v. Schnurbein


Cut: Cecilia Falkman