The ONLY Russian literature you need to read
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- čas přidán 10. 06. 2024
- These are the best pieces of Russian literature that I have read, coming from the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Books Mentioned (with affiliate links):
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky - amzn.to/4bZeysV
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky - amzn.to/3NcMBU8
Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky - amzn.to/433gSes
Demons - Fyodor Dostoevsky - amzn.to/3P6qGyk
Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky - amzn.to/4c5PwZ2
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - amzn.to/3PaGnVv
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - amzn.to/4c4rNZu
The Death of Ivan Ilych - Leo Tolstoy - amzn.to/3uYjmy5
The Cossacks - Leo Tolstoy - amzn.to/437oegV
Pushkin's Short Stories - Alexander Pushkin - amzn.to/434iYdW
Eugene Onegin - Alexander Pushkin - amzn.to/3uNhrMU
Chekhov's Short stories 1 - Anton Chekhov - amzn.to/49C6KvN
Chekhov's Short stories 2 - Anton Chekhov - amzn.to/3T2Re4N
Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev - amzn.to/3uQxABc
Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol - amzn.to/4aiNiUP
Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov - amzn.to/3IlMrGS
Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov - amzn.to/3Iq3NlO
Life and Fate - Vasily Grossman - amzn.to/3wJQg6c
The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - amzn.to/3Ir5dNa
Cancer Ward - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - amzn.to/3IpKedp
Lolita - Vladimir Nobokov - amzn.to/48Nw5RT
Excellent and illuminating presentation. Thank you so much! I have read many of the books you have talked about, but the insights you've brought to this narrative are encouraging me to read them again. I did not know that _Dead Souls_ was an incomplete work. I agree: this is most disconcerting to learn.
FAVORITE AUTHORS
1st) Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Insulted and Humiliated)
1) “The Insulted and Humiliated” by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4) "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
19) "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
30) "Demons" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
65) "My Uncle's Dream" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
80) "The Heavenly Christmas Tree" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
113) "Poor Folk" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
130) "The Gentle Spirit" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
141) "The Gambler" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
149) "White Nights" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
173) "Netochka Nezvanova" (nameless nobody) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
2nd) Leo Tolstoy (Resurrection)
3) "Resurrection" by Leo Tolstoy
9) "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy
17) “Childhood, Boyhood” by Leo Tolstoy
62) "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
91) "A Confession" by Leo Tolstoy
3rd) Ivan Turgenev (Fathers and Sons)
5) "Fathers and Sons" by Ivan Turgenev
11) "Smoke" by Ivan Turgenev
23) "Virgin Soil" by Ivan Turgenev
41) "Torrents of Spring" by Ivan Turgenev
64) "First Love" by Ivan Turgenev
101) "Acia" by Ivan Turgenev
107) "The Watch" by Ivan Turgenev
132) "Rudin" by Ivan Turgenev
141) "On the Eve" by Ivan Turgenev
152) "Home of the Gentry" by Ivan Turgenev
172) "Clara Militch" by Ivan Turgenev
177) "The Inn" by Ivan Turgenev
4th) James A. Michener (Chesapeake)
12) "Chesapeake" by James A. Michener
13) "Poland" by James A. Michener
36) "Caribbean" by James A. Michener
37) "Hawaii" by James A. Michener
197) “Mexico” by James A. Michener
5th) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich)
10) "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
28) "Cancer Ward" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
44) "In the First Circle" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
78) "The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: an Experiment in Literary Investigation" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Hope this channel blows up one day. Keep at it!
Thank you, appreciate it
Agreed: Turgenev is superb. Loved both Fathers and Sons and Sketches . Need to read Gogol
I know what you mean about Checkov’s plays. But somehow they make it for me. Because the dialogues are so dramatically crafted. Every sentence is charged . My favourite is The Seagull and the reason why it’s cause of this one sentence “if you ever have need of my life, come and take it”. I think the great book is the one that makes u feel smth u didn’t know u could. The Precipice by Goncharov is really good, in ideology, pretty much like Oblomov only the next step sort of. Great video. Thank u
Great take. I’ve been enjoying Chekov’s short stories, haven’t got to his plays yet, but I definitely find myself taking pleasure in how he transforms the mundane of everyday life into something emotionally raw.
So many of these books I still have to read. Almost all of them are on my TBR. Currently reading Chekhov's stories The Bet is one of my favorites so far
You got the big two covered...thanks.
""Another book by Leo Tolstoy: one of the greatest in all the languages of the world, War and Peace. Not only the greatest but also the most voluminous...thousands of pages. I don’t know that anybody reads such books except myself. They are so big, so vast, they make you afraid.
But Tolstoy’s book has to be vast, it is not his fault. War and Peace is the whole history of human consciousness - the whole history; it cannot be written on a few pages. Yes, it is difficult to read thousands of pages, but if one can one will be transported to another world. One will know the taste of something classic. Yes, it is a classic.
Nobody is more worthy of a Nobel Prize than Leo Tolstoy. His creativity is immense, he was unsurpassed by anyone. He was nominated, but refused by the committee because of his unorthodox stories on Christianity. The Prize committee opens its records every fifty years. When records were opened in 1950, researchers rushed to see whose names were nominated and cancelled and for what reason. Leo Tolstoy was nominated, but never given the prize as he is not an orthodox Christian. Leo Tolstoy is one of Russia’s wisest men of the 20th century and his ideas on non-violence deeply influenced Mahatma Gandhi’s ideology. Mahatma Gandhi declared three persons his master. The first was Leo Tolstoy, the second was Henry Thoreau, and the third was Emerson.
Once Leo Tolstoy was asked - How many experiences did you have of divine ecstasy in your life? Tolstoy started crying. He replied - Not more than 7 in my life of 70 years, but I am grateful for those 7 moments and miserable too. In those moments it was evident that is could have been the flavor of my whole life but that didn’t happen. Those moments came and went on their own. But I am still grateful to God that even without any conscious effort on my part, once in a while He has been knocking at my doors. . Anna Karenina is one of my most loved books. How many times I have read it I can’t remember. I mean the number of times - I remember the book perfectly well, I can relate the whole book..
If I was drowning in the ocean and had to choose just one novel out of all the millions of novels in the world, I would choose Anna Karenina. It would be beautiful to be with that beautiful book. It has to be read and read again; only then you can feel it, smell it, and taste the flavor. It is no ordinary book
.Leo Tolstoy failed as a saint, just as Mahatma Gandhi failed as a saint, but Leo Tolstoy was a great novelist. Mahatma Gandhi succeeded as - and will remain forever - a pinnacle of sincerity. I don’t know of any other man in this century who was so sincere. When he wrote to people ‘sincerely yours’ he was really sincere. When you write ‘sincerely yours’, you know, and everybody else knows, and the person to whom you are writing also knows, that it is all bullshit. It is very difficult, almost impossible, to really be ‘sincerely yours’. That’s what makes a person religious - sincerity.
Leo Tolstoy wanted to be religious but could not be. He tried hard. I feel great sympathy with his effort, but he was not a religious person. He has to wait at least a few more lives. In a way it is good that he was not a religious man otherwise we would have missed Resurrection, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and dozens more beautiful, immensely beautiful books"
Great video 👌 What should I do to prepare my reading?
I find that reading classics without knowing anything (knowing nothing about the context) makes it much harder to understand them and you don't grasp many things that are going on.
I know nothing of Russia, Russia's history, etc. Which specific concepts / Wikipedia articles should I look up before I read the works?
I went to the library and got Notes from the Underground, The Cossacks and I have Anna Karenina at home (unread). I also picked up Gogol's The Overcoat.
Thanks!
What about translators of these great works?
Devils is proving essential to my political delvings. Getting a lot more from it than from crime and punishment
Интересно, что британец рассказывает о русской литературе. Ну, я прочитал половину этих книг во 2-м классе. Вы может находите что-нибудь еще интересным?
I know that you don't know Russian. Good luck with the translator. Thank you for the excellent lessons, I will definitely torment you with questions from different schools.
Мдааа, интересно зачем тебе нужно было читать Лолиту во втором классе… Лучше бы тригонометрию учил что ли
@@alexmjc Ее в 9-м классе в России учат
I think he should speak faster.