The moment you say its a dark comedy, and since then the way your narration has the grin, i love it i heavily consider this one great tool to increase your dark comedy on murder and on new american shows or whatever like you are given the classic language to explain something so ahead of time
Brilliant review! I like the connection you made to Nietzsche. I'm reading the book at the moment and this motivates me to continue my reading and perhaps write a review. Thank you.
@@AheadOfTheCurveVideos I mean there are so many, but I guess you could go for the obvious ones like 1984, the catcher in the rye, the picture of Dorian gray, the count of Monte Cristo, The Brothers Karamazov, the alchemist.. honestly just choose the ones you find interesting to talk about.. I would also love to see a non fiction tier list☝️
Crime and Punishment, as I see it, is a study of a self-centered life vs a God-centered life. One is hell and death, the other is saved life. And it is also the study of a certain type of person who has to follow sin to its ultimate destination in order to have no other place to go but to God. That type of person is under the delusion of self-sufficiency. FYI, the first half of it will induce insane nightmares, while the end of it has the power to restore your faith if you're open to it.
First, Raskolnikov isnt presented as a stheist or political radical at all, he believes in the great man theory, whenever he's presented with an actual atheist like Svidrigsilov he finds him repugnant, also since the start of the book Raskolnikov wrestles with the Christian question and doesnt answer it until the end of the epilogue.
Hi James, I love seeing young individuals interested in these great works. This book is near and dear to my heart. I listened to the first 8 min of your review, then stopped and listened back again. I don’t want this to discourage you from what your doing, but I can’t lie to you, I thought this was a bit sloppy. I’ve learned there’s a difference between reading a book and understanding a book. Your playing with the right themes and with the right ideas, but slow down my friend. I heard some broad generalizations in this review. A lot of what your talking about will pass for a decent review for the novice reader to entice them to read it themselves, but if your looking to play in the world of real literary analysis or criticism, your going to have to be more precise and careful with making claims about what’s going on with the novel or the author. Take this as a challenge to really sharpen your tools. You got the right stuff, but hold yourself to the highest standard and you will see a big improvement in your content.
I read this book a couple of times. Wrote a short portion about it in an essay for school. I don’t remember much of my essay. Notes From The Underground and The Devils or Demons is my favorite, Brothers Karamazov is hard to beat as well. Haven’t read The Idiot, but the intro was very dry. I bought Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes, waiting for it in the mail. How are you James? I think you will like Father and Son by Turgenev.
I think the idea in the book is no-body can run away from their spirit striking back - and therefore everyone has a spirit - conscience. The old pawnbroker he kills is supposed to be someone of no consequence but her sister who is not like that gets in the way. Sonia mirrors his conscience. I suppose Napoleon must have had some feelings about all who had died - maybe not, but he identifies with him as he believes genius should not be subject to the rules of mediocrity - as he sees it. That's how I saw it anyway. Enjoyed your review. Thanks.
Your review of the count of monte Cristo was so good I bounced over to my favorite author. I wish you would say more about translations. I find this a problem on these books. Thanks for your ( my guess) scholarly interest in philosophy. Saves me the trouble. My knowledge of philosophy stuff comes from being serious catholic guy. I’m always surprised how much ive learned just because I do think deeply about catholic issues.
Thanks for watching Richard. In truth, I am not somebody who is as clinical about translations as others. Though admittedly, with Dostoyevsky, if it's poor, it often shows. Cheers.
The story about Nietzsche & the horse is actually just myth unfortunately.he never hugged a horse and this is not when he went mad. The Nietzsche podcast goes through this myth on his podcast. I believe he mentioned it originated in a newspaper many many years after his death
@@AheadOfTheCurveVideos Different versions of this story are played out in introductory essays to his books, some just briefly mention -Date, Nietzsche went mad - Some people believe in x about it, some would just say that or others will go in debt about the horse theory or mention syphilis or that he simply went mad.
The moment you say its a dark comedy, and since then the way your narration has the grin, i love it i heavily consider this one great tool to increase your dark comedy on murder and on new american shows or whatever like you are given the classic language to explain something so ahead of time
Yeah it was really brilliant analysis, i love it so much ❤️
Brilliant review! I like the connection you made to Nietzsche. I'm reading the book at the moment and this motivates me to continue my reading and perhaps write a review.
Thank you.
Cheers! Appreciate it!
I see Jung's Red Book there in the background
wonderful discussion, so much background and context. I love this.
Cheers Brandon!
Maybe you should make a book tier list (especially for the classic pieces) I'd love to see how you'd rank them
Good idea! Though I wouldn’t know where to start, there are so many to choose from. Which kinds of classics would you want to see me tier?
@@AheadOfTheCurveVideos I mean there are so many, but I guess you could go for the obvious ones like 1984, the catcher in the rye, the picture of Dorian gray, the count of Monte Cristo, The Brothers Karamazov, the alchemist.. honestly just choose the ones you find interesting to talk about.. I would also love to see a non fiction tier list☝️
Crime and Punishment, as I see it, is a study of a self-centered life vs a God-centered life. One is hell and death, the other is saved life. And it is also the study of a certain type of person who has to follow sin to its ultimate destination in order to have no other place to go but to God. That type of person is under the delusion of self-sufficiency. FYI, the first half of it will induce insane nightmares, while the end of it has the power to restore your faith if you're open to it.
Really beautifully written. I absolutely agree with your reading. That is a theme of Dostoyevsky that I particularly appreciate.
Aliyona not Raskolnikov's landlady, you read this twice you say??
First, Raskolnikov isnt presented as a stheist or political radical at all, he believes in the great man theory, whenever he's presented with an actual atheist like Svidrigsilov he finds him repugnant, also since the start of the book Raskolnikov wrestles with the Christian question and doesnt answer it until the end of the epilogue.
Hi James,
I love seeing young individuals interested in these great works.
This book is near and dear to my heart. I listened to the first 8 min of your review, then stopped and listened back again.
I don’t want this to discourage you from what your doing, but I can’t lie to you, I thought this was a bit sloppy.
I’ve learned there’s a difference between reading a book and understanding a book. Your playing with the right themes and with the right ideas, but slow down my friend. I heard some broad generalizations in this review. A lot of what your talking about will pass for a decent review for the novice reader to entice them to read it themselves, but if your looking to play in the world of real literary analysis or criticism, your going to have to be more precise and careful with making claims about what’s going on with the novel or the author.
Take this as a challenge to really sharpen your tools. You got the right stuff, but hold yourself to the highest standard and you will see a big improvement in your content.
I read this book a couple of times. Wrote a short portion about it in an essay for school. I don’t remember much of my essay. Notes From The Underground and The Devils or Demons is my favorite, Brothers Karamazov is hard to beat as well. Haven’t read The Idiot, but the intro was very dry. I bought Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes, waiting for it in the mail. How are you James? I think you will like Father and Son by Turgenev.
I think the idea in the book is no-body can run away from their spirit striking back - and therefore everyone has a spirit - conscience. The old pawnbroker he kills is supposed to be someone of no consequence but her sister who is not like that gets in the way. Sonia mirrors his conscience. I suppose Napoleon must have had some feelings about all who had died - maybe not, but he identifies with him as he believes genius should not be subject to the rules of mediocrity - as he sees it. That's how I saw it anyway. Enjoyed your review. Thanks.
Nice analysis, agreed. Thanks for watching.
Have you ever did a bookshelf tour?
I did last year, should do another one soon!
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Loved this book in my Dostoyevsky class.
Your review of the count of monte Cristo was so good I bounced over to my favorite author. I wish you would say more about translations. I find this a problem on these books. Thanks for your ( my guess) scholarly interest in philosophy. Saves me the trouble. My knowledge of philosophy stuff comes from being serious catholic guy. I’m always surprised how much ive learned just because I do think deeply about catholic issues.
Thanks for watching Richard. In truth, I am not somebody who is as clinical about translations as others. Though admittedly, with Dostoyevsky, if it's poor, it often shows. Cheers.
Good review
Cheers Nick🙏
The story about Nietzsche & the horse is actually just myth unfortunately.he never hugged a horse and this is not when he went mad. The Nietzsche podcast goes through this myth on his podcast. I believe he mentioned it originated in a newspaper many many years after his death
Interesting. Thanks for letting me know, I did think it was a weird coincidence to Dostoyevsky.
@@AheadOfTheCurveVideos Different versions of this story are played out in introductory essays to his books, some just briefly mention -Date, Nietzsche went mad - Some people believe in x about it, some would just say that or others will go in debt about the horse theory or mention syphilis or that he simply went mad.
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I despise Dostoevsky.
he doesn't care.
@@chinpokomaster8844 Fortunately he's not around to care. Unfortunately his writing is and I despise it
@@mysticmouse7261 just because you "despise" his way of writing doesn't mean you should despise him as a person
@@sinsoull oh please when people say Dostoevsky they usually mean his writing. It's metonymy.
@@mysticmouse7261 i get what you mean mostly because he is famous for his books but still my point stands