My 6 Favourite Authors (Likes and dislikes)
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In this video I discuss my 6 favourite authors, why I like them and also why I dislike them.
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This is late but I love that fact that you love authors and still have critiques of their work. Many people fear saying bad things about their favorite authors but I respect the fact that you realize it’s a craft and every writer still has the ability to learn and get better. Even the greatest.
Really appreciate it.
Hi Fiction Beast. I found your channel after deciding to read The Brother's Karamazov. I chose that book after spending 5 years reading (almost) exclusively non-fiction, and wanted to become more well read in literature and fiction. Now I'm just about done with my third Dostoyevsky book (The Idiot, and also read Crime and Punishment). Thanks for helping me get the most out of my reading and for giving me new ideas about which authors to branch out to next.
how genuinely well crafted ur videos are. your hard work and honest opinion is reveaved everytime.. i applaud it sir..
So nice of you
This was so entertaining and went so fast. I wish you had seven favourites to include Madame Bovary. Thanks as usual.
From France, it is always a toss up between Proust and Falubert. I will do a video in the future to talk about 6 more authors whose work I love.
You really have a good taste in literature :)
Though my favourites authors (6 if I were asked) are Rabindranath Tagore ( and I'm really partial to him), Leo Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Cervantes, Krishna Dwaipayan Vyasa (he did composed the greatest epic but not wrote it himself) and Shakespeare.
I really enjoy Tagore's work recently. I'm getting into Tolstoy more and more. I will have to check out these names.
I wish the very best for you, for you are illuminating us with introducing different authors and sparking a thirst for knowledge in our rusty mind.❤
Thank you!
Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-up bird chronicle are also my fav Murakami novels. Recently I finished Tanizaki Junichiro's "A Cat, A man and Two Women" and his other short stories...I can definitely say I became a bigger fan of his writing.
I read one of Tanizaki's novels, Some prefer Nettles i believe was the title. I also read parts of Makioka Sisters. He was a great writer and well-repected in Japan.
I am so late to this video, but I couldn't help wanting to add my own. My 6 (in no order): Herman Hesse, Roberto Bolano, Isaac Babel, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cormac McCarthy and Tove Ditlevsen! Amazing channel, by the way! :)
Love Cormac as well, and great call on Bolano (Savage Detectives, great book) - as for Hesse, I have read four of his books - all of them four of them some of the most boring books I have ever read. Siddhartha was the most tolerable, but I hate Hesse so much.
I am now 72 years old. Some of my favorites have changed over the years. At 17, I loved The sun also rises. I reread it recently and laughed at the author’s posturing. Over the years, Proust, Virginia Woolf, Marquez, Calvino, Isherwood, Marguerite Yourencar, have held their own. I love the Leopard by Lampedusa, many, many Mark Twain Titles and I won’t start on the playwrights.
I agree some authors are too deep and they remain. For me it’s Proust and to some extent Dostoevsky and Calvino. I love huckleberry Finn. Perhaps the best American novel.
Yourcenar is a titan.
1:56 this is such a difficulty for me - I am getting better with it, having also read many Russian novels- but man oh man the name’s and repeated names.
Wow. Just discovered you on Drew Binsky. You're my cup of tea, seeking out World Literature. My "To Read" lists are in volumes.. (Actually, my first words were "Mommy to read?") I read HUNGER a few years ago! My fave authors: Anita Brookner, Alice Munro, Ruth Rendell (read TIGER LILY'S ORCHIDS eight times), Aravind Adiga, Rohinton Mistry, IB Singer, Philip Roth. Just finished Perumal Murugan's ONE PART WOMAN, am now into PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION (D.M. Thomas).
Thanks so much for joining the journey. Also thanks for sharing your favourites. I read the White Tiger by Adiga and loved it.
Your channel is amazing! My favorites authors are: José Saramago, Natsume Soseki, Jorge Luis Borges, William Shakespeare, Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Awesome, thank you! I should read something by Alejo Carpentier. Any suggestions?
@@Fiction_Beast you should start with "The Kingdom of this world." Even though it is a short novel, it has so many events and conflicts going on that it could've easily filled an entire Russian epic with them. But it's all perfectly condensed in just a few pages, and packed with heavy doses of magical realism.
Awesome will check it out.
I' m very late at this video , but appreciated it so much. Dostoevskij has been my favourite writer all my life long, and thanks to Dostoevskij novels' reviews I stumbled on "Fiction Beast" online: for me a true discovery I'm so grateful for! May be I missed it, but have you ever read Michajl Bulgakov " Master and Margaret "?When I was 16 years old by chance I found it in my little town's library, read it and was completely overwhelmed by its beauty , humour, dreaming realism( if such an oxymoron is possible) and complexity in structure.It' only a hint..in any case,thank you for your precious work.
Thank you so much for sharing your reading experience. Yes, I mentioned M and M in my top ten Russian novels.
ty for posting
I know you're always looking for comments but I think it's interesting that Raymond Chandler led me to to Dostoyevsky and Henry Miller led me to Proust. I'm old so I read Bukowski when those novels were fresh and maybe I will pick them up again because their endlessly entertaining. I love Murakami , but my all time favorite writer is Salman Rushdie who always makes me laugh out loud, but has amazing depth.
I discovered you very late. Well it’s not so late I suppose. I’m on a spiritual quest after midage crisis. It seems I can walk quite a distance holding your hand. Thank you for brightening up my life and giving me a reason to live.. to read and know, to understand and explore.
I really appreciate your comment. I’m so happy that it was helpful. It really mean a lot.
Balzac, Wharton, and Cather never disappoint.
Great choices. I am into all of these authors except for Ishiguro. I was wondering, what do you think of Joseph Roth and Cormac McCarthy? Thanks
I read the road a while back, which I included in my 20 American novels. I have not read Roth.
Would you say that Proust is similar to Ishiguro? From the tiny snippets that I read from Proust I find that he is like Ishiguro but just more detailed
"In this novel you can smell your memory." (About Proust.) Wow, great line.
Cheers. That's Proust for you. everything smells in france. cheese, wine and chanel
My favorite Carver story is "Errand".
It is a great short story.
1. Tolstoy
2. Trollope
3. Edith Wharton
4. Shakespeare
5. Mann
6. Bill Bryson
Wow, those are giants
We share a love of Bukowski and Mirakami! And to a lesser extent Dostoyevsky.
My favorite novel ever written is “For whom the bell tolls.” And I think “the old man and the sea” is a perfect novella.
I have never seen a video from you about Hemingway. Are you not a fan? Or have just not had the opportunity to read his work?
It looks our tastes & understanding of literature is quite similar. I haven’t read the Japanese authors - but will take a look at them. I recommend having a dive into the modern Russian novel - this is where I’m beached at the moment.
I’d probably add Austen & Hardy in here as well - simply for the re-readability factor.
I like to think of Hank as an everyman’s Proust. He’s kinda doing exactly the same thing as MP if you think about it - only he’s taking out of the subtleties & sticking to the base appetites as you point out.
That's awesome. I love Japanese authors for writing short novels (except Murakami). I loved Thomas Hardy's Tess. Who is Hank?
@@Fiction_Beast charles bukowski’s alter ego
@@stevescott1454 Now everyman's proust makes sense. I think your assessment is spot on. Hank is the super masculine version of Marcel, less refined but still reveals the truth about human existence.
@@Fiction_Beast totes agree. I think Jack Kerouac tried to pull it off as well - but his attempt is not as cohesive as Charlie B.
My favorite writers are James Joyce(Dublines) , Flaubert(Madame Bovary), Conrad, Henry James and Faulkner(Absalom, Absalom!).
They created novels as art: stylistics, points of view, ambiguous usage(doublets), free indirect speech,(which could be success because of the Indo-European language's features), Helenic and Hebraic mythological allusions.
I love Flaubert's Bovary and Sentimental Education. I will cover those in a future video. I'm intrigued by the connection you make between a particular language and style. Literature is a fluid world where ideas and inspirations flow between cultures. I like your analysis.
where would you recommend going with James if you've only read Turn of the Screw and want to try his more usual themes?
Interesting list. I agree about Dostoyevsky and Proust and maybe Ishiguro. Carver is certainly a master of the short story, I don’t know about a novel by him though. Sometimes the two gifts don’t occur together. I would add Conrad, Henry James, and maybe Thomas Mann to my list. Most notable however, you have explained to me why I dislike Murakami so much, especially Kafka on the Shore! Lol! So thank you for clarifying it for me. I enjoy your vide
videos a great deal.
Awesome!
You sir have not only style. But also substance.
Appreciate it.
For me personally, I read both contemporary novels and the classical ones
1:Lu Xun's novels. Lu is one of my most favorite writer and the one who influences my own style of writing the most.
2:《Three body problem》trilogy, my most loved Sci-fi
3:《Cold bonded wonderland and the end of the world》,《Kafka on the shore》by Murakami
4:《Let miserable》by Victor Hugo
5: by Orwell
6:Many of Kafka's work.
7:by Marquez
8: by Virginia Woolf
I have spoken about Lu Xun here. for me 1984 is deep and has a great premise, but lacks in storytelling.
Great to know we have a very similar taste.
That's awesome.
Very good selection. My favorite writers are Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf (for the latter, esp. Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, The Waves...).
Mrs Dalloway is great.
1. Borges. His creativity is just nuts and he pioneered the entire metafiction way of writing. And then for the rest in no particular orders, but so far they are: Can Xue, Calvino, Kafka. Can Xue is probably not comparable to Calvino or Kafka, but I do think that she is better than say other Chinese writers like Lu Xun or Mo Yan, or typically acclaimed writers like Camus or Nabokov. To understand her one really need to read some of the lit crit she wrote, or at least a bit of her interviews, where she talks extensively about her views on literature. She basically analyze topics like what does it mean to create art, what does it mean to love, and how these all comes down to the battling between the fictitious and the unreal, the flesh and the spirit, all narrated in a "new language". By "new language" I mean she deconstructs the links between words and the meanings they signify, and associate new meanings to them. This makes reading her work extremely difficult, but at the same time, it creates this strange effect, that us the readers are actively deciphering the meanings behind every word, and paying a lot of attentions to the actions of the characters and analyze extensively what their actions could mean. And this thrilling guessing game itself basically mirrors the constant struggles of the battling between the fictitious and the real that is the constant theme of her writings - a sort of implicit metafiction kind of deal. Just read a few pages of her and one will realize how radically different she is from basically any other writer ever lived. And how she had been writing in this style since the 80s is just insane.
In blind willow, sleeping woman Haruki Murakami mentioned in his introduction about Raymond Carver, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Anton Chekhov. .for Haruki Murakami these guys are the best in terms of short story. .
Murakami was influenced by those authors.
No, but he loves them.
Jay, don't you thrill when beloved authors intersect? Or lead us to new delights? Recently for me, Philip Roth> Nicole Krauss' THE HISTORY OF LOVE. About a Holocaust survivor who's a Locksmith. I had my Locksmith over, he said he wished he could find a good book, I said, "Have I got the book for you, and you can have it!"
@@rubyparchment5523 I agree. .
Favorite: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens, Carl Jung, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jordan Peterson, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, John Milton, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Dante Alighieri.
Very diverse, you got literature and psychology covered.
judging by your favourites and if you don't mind a pretty misanthropic lense, if you haven'tread already, you would like JOURNEY to the end of the night by celine
Is there a reason why there is a picture of my country in the thumbnail but only authors from other places? Proust is one of my favorites, too.
Are you from Chile? Easter Island? That's cool.These authors are like my maois or my literary heroes or ancestors. Yes, Proust!!
@@Fiction_Beast I'm from Concepción, a city from Chile. Very good explanation, thank you.
My favorite so far are: on the top of the list :Dostoïvesky (especially the brothers caramazov and crime and punishment). Edgar Allan poe; his short stories, especially the tell tale heart. Wuthering heights by Emily brönte ( even if the story was so sad and there is no specific hero or heroine and the characters were all not good "somehow" but I loved it so much because it taught you that every person can turn to be bad, even the good ones can be very evil, if the circumstances push them that way).I almost summarized the book 😅. This is what happens to you, if you watch fiction beast channel 😁. You become too analytical.
I love Wuthering Heights
@@Fiction_Beast I hope one day you would analyse it for us ❤️
I’ll think about it. 😊
@@Fiction_Beast thank you 🙂
My favorites are Oscar Wilde, Murakami, bukowski, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I loved Wilde's Dorian Grey and Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude. Let me know if I should read more of their works.
Raymond Carver - great choice.
Thank you! I wish he had a novel and now he would've been much more well-known.
Don't you just love those Penguin books? They are my favorite.
My favourite authors fydor Dodstovsk
y, George Orwell, Leo Tolstoy, Hemingway, Shakespeare, chekhov
A very wide-ranging authors. Thanks for sharing.
CZcams has a 7-hour audio of Orwell's ON WIGAN PIER. Not sure who narrates, but is sublime.
Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner, Orwell, Hemingway, ishiguro.
Murakami is simply meditative reading
Something tells me you haven't read "A Confederacy of Dunces" yet.
I wonder if there's a video on authors who really only wrote one book?
Do you like Murakami's short stories? If you do have you read any of Victor Pelevin's short stories? Some of them are amazing, but his novels are nowhere near as good.
You’re right. I have neither read the novel you mentioned nor Murakami’s short stories. I tend to go for novels so very rarely read short stories. The same goes for snacks. I always like a hearty pizza
Authors who only wrote one book is an excellent video idea. You always inspire me Andrew!
On top of my head I know Salinger, Lermontov, Proust, Kafka finished only one novel but he wrote several unfinished ones. Anyone else?
@@Fiction_Beast Well it was John Kennedy Toole that made me think of it of course. Technically he did actually write another book, but I suppose that will be the case with several on such a list.
He would also belong on a list of authors who died by suicide and a list of authors who only became successful after their death.
@@andrewdunbar828 Yes, i think all of them wrote other books in the form of poetry or short stories or non-fiction, but known for their only novel.
Dostoevsky and Crime and Punishment are my No 1 too!
My favorite writers are Haruki Murakami, Kazuo Ishiguro, J.R.R. Tolkien, Anne Rice, Neil Gaiman, And my list are endless. . I'm not much of a classic, but of contemporary novels. .
I am the opposite, I am more a classics reader
But, let's face it, to.make a harmonious take of literature we must balance the classics and the contemporaries, in terms of reading the authors' books. . .
Contempo for me, too! Philip Roth is at his most sublime when recalling/revisiting his beloved (yet altered) Newark. He describes pulling up to his early childhood home in a limo. The current owner emerges with a German Shepherd, asks "Who you supposed to be?" That's our world today -- Who you supposed to be?
Karel Capek, Tom Robbins, Jozef Hasek and i'd be remiss to leave out Kafka's 'on the tram'
Melville-Dostoevsky-Beckett-Fante-Miller-Bolaño-Conrad-Kafka...
Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
John Steinbeck.
Kazuo Ishiguro.
Ernest Hemingway.
Leo Tolstoy.
There are many Tolstoy fans, i should cover him more on this channel. Appreciate you sharing.
@@Fiction_Beast Yes and also please more Hemingway and Steinbeck. I have recently discovered your channel and i absolutely love your content!
Appreciate it.
what's your 3 favourite steinbeck's?
The remains of the days is not very interesting, however Never Let Me Go is amazing. Murakami is just pure magic like a dream that you aren't sure you had.
Every one like fydor Dostoevsky
I’m not surprised. How about you?
I also now and then read Haruki. He's not exactly my favorite, but he's alright to pass the time.
Dislike Bukowski, though. He's a total mediocrity.
Anyhow, my favorite writers are J.G. Ballard, H.P. Lovecraft, Vladimir Nabokov, Cormac McCarthy, Hunter Thompson, Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, Bret Easton Ellis. Maybe Richard Brautigan. And a light mention to Chuck Palahniuk, Donna Tartt, Elmore Leonard, and Flannery O'Connor. And Salinger.
Yukio Mishima is another one - I don't love Mishima per say, but I do read him a lot.
If you read, you write. That's organic. . .
Agree!
I expected your list to be more classical. I've read Murakami's 1Q84. Consumer fiction, definitely not great.
My list (for admiring at least 2 novels by a single author):
Vladimir Nabokov
Tolstoy
Dostoevsky
James Joyce
Henry James
Joseph Conrad
William Faulkner
John Steinbeck
John Fowles
Milan Kundera
Thomas Pynchon
Mario Vargas Llosa
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Likely additions based on admiring one novel:
Willa Cather
Edith Wharton
Thomas Hardy
H. D. Lawrence
E. M. Forster
Herman Melville
Ford Madox Ford
Gunter Grass
Thomas Mann
Ivan Turgenev
Cormac McCarthy
David Foster Wallace
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
Carlos Fuentes
Cervantes
Flaubert
Zola
Hugo
Balzac
Dumas
Stendhal
(Proust, TBR)
judging by your favourites and if you don't mind a pretty misanthropic lense, if you haven'tread already, you would like JOURNEY to the end of the night by celine
@@harryjones84 I want to read it someday.
@@graybow2255 it's great...i think especially so if you prepare yourself for the dark humour before reading- i knew nothing about it so was bit of headspn art first
let me guess you south african?
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In my opinion, every review about choices in every form of art should begin the way you did.