He also loved The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He tried to translate it but failed because it's a very long book. There is a Disney movie based on that book and it's the most dostoevskian thing ever. Dostoevsky also lived Walter Scott a lot.
Along with Cliff at 'Better Than Food', this is one of my favourite book channels. It's a yin-yang kind of balance. Cliff's like a dangerous hot ol' fox from the edge of town, the bad side of the tracks and you're like the clean and civilised British Shorthair cat pampered in the cafe BUT with eyes that see EVERYTHING, giving nothing away. You are therefore, a cafe sphinx, LOL, :D
😆😆😆 cafe sphinx is the most interesting comparison I've had 😅 but I'm very happy that you're enjoying my videos and it really means a lot to me 😊 I'll do my best to continue making interesting videos 📚🌟 Thank you very much for your support and kind words
I've just started to read "The House of the Dead" and came upon your video which is excellent! Your English is very good. I've tagged a few of the books you mention here and added them to my list to read in Goodreads. I jumped for joy when you mentioned "Don Quixote" because I've been wanting to read it for quite some time but it's just so darn l-o-n-g. Though I did read "War and Peace" with my book club and enjoyed it very much. That is where I learned that the gentry spoke French in Russia. :) I will have to check out more of your videos as this one was so interesting. Thank you so much for collecting all of this information and presenting it to us book people! :)
I am reading Don Quixote now (almost finished) I enjoy the characters of Don Quixote and Sancho very much. Their personalities and relationships are just lovely, often funny, but always very heartwarming. I think they are my favorite part about the novel as the plot is pretty repetitive and that's why the book feels a bit too long to me. But it's a 17th-century novel, so I guess applying our standards of what a plot should be to it wouldn't be fair. 📚
@@bookishtopics Yes, I've started to watch more of your videos (they are so interesting!) and saw that you've "taken that big book on!" :) How are you liking living in Japan? The culture must be so different from what you're used to but very interesting. I've heard their food is very good! Thanks so much for responding ... Debbie (my family is from Lithuania)
@@deblawrence8341 I like it here. It's very safe and people are kind. The food really is delicious. I wish we could travel around more, Japan is such a beautiful place and I'd love to see more of it, but unfortunately with the pandemic, it wasn't possible (we came right before it started). One more problem is that work-life balance is non-existent here :( but other than that it really is a wonderful place :)
I'm glad it was interesting 🌟 I really like making them too. I will certainly make videos for both Chekhov and Turgenev. Thank you for your suggestion 😊📖
Hi! I've just found out your chanel after seeing this video suggested in my account. I instantly came to watch and listen to you, because I love Dostoievski and I want to read more Russian classical authors, such as Tolstoi, Chejov and Leskov. It was very interesting to learn about Dostoievski 's readings, thank you for all the valuable information. Have you read Leskov's works? I would love someone who has read him could recommend me with which of his books I could start. Also, I would love to know whether there are any Russian female classic writers, specially from the 19th century, is there any you can recommend? Big hug from Chile. ~ Carolina
thank you so much for this series i LOVE to discover who my favorite author’s favorite authors are! i don’t know if you have done her yet, but could you do Charlotte Brontë one day? i love jane eyre !! great channel keep up the good work !
Thank you very much for your kind comment! It's very encouraging. I've made a video on Charlotte Bronte th-cam.com/video/NuKEq-2znNg/w-d-xo.html I hope you'll enjoy it :)
i should have looked for your Charlotte video prior to writing that comment, silly me! just watched it and added her Selected Letters to my wishlist! (also watched the russian classics video and added Young Country Doctor to my wishlist! so interesting!) love the channel, stay golden!
I love these videos, they're so good! ❤️😄 Perhaps you could make a video on female Russian authors? I always hear of the great male authors of Russian literature and women are often left out 😂❤️ Someone like Anna Akhmatova or Marina Tsvetaeva ❤️❤️😄😄
That is a great idea for a video, somebody suggested a similar one before, I think about female writers in the 19th century (I'm sorry, maybe it was you, I don't remember exactly). I need to look it up because I know of female writers in the 20th century and currently, but I don't know anybody from the 19th century, from what I found most of the women were doing translations and writing for children. I need to search more. It is actually very interesting, I'm curious, so thank you for suggesting this idea 🌞📚
It's interesting to know how an author influences in another. About Quixote is one of the most famous Spanish books. it's about a man and his squire that wants to rescue a woman. It's an ironic book about society. There are some comics adaptations about this book. one of editorials that has an interesting adaptation into comis is Europe comic.
I really need to read Don Quixote. I didn't know Dostoyevsky was so fond of it until I started looking up information for this video. Now I'm curious and want to read it myself 🌞📚 Have you read it? Did you enjoy it? 🌞
@@bookishtopics It's very ioronic and depicts some aspects of the society. It's one of the moseft fampus books in my country,. Unluckily, few people read them here
Bookish Topics I highly recommend it. It tells the story of a man who reads so many books about knights errant that in the end he becomes mad and comes to believe that what those novels explain is true and what any an honorable man should do is become a knight himself. So he decides to leave the small town where he lives, ready to perform feats, defeat giants and malevolent sorcerers and rescue princesses. His ‘adventures’ of course end always badly, and are a source of mockery from the people he and his companion Sancho find on the way
This is another excellent video, thank you. Reading Don Quixote is central to understanding The Idiot. Don Quixote should be read by everyone, because you’ll see that it also contains the seeds of Shakespeare and everyone that came after him.
I am enjoying your book tube account. Could you write the names in the description so that we can look them up? The French female author, what was her name?
Hi Tanya. While Dostoyevsky’s 200th birthday is coming I would like to read all his books. After I watched this video I wondered the book list of his library that you mentioned. Can you share it even it is Russian? Thank you:)
Sure, there's a few sources. I can't find now that exact webpage I looked at then, but here're some similar recourses: blog.predanie.ru/article/chto-chital-dostoevskij-kopaemsya-v-lichnoj-biblioteke-pisatelya/ (this is a short article that lists some of the authors that were found in his libraries and some books on religion. This one I've just found and I wish I had found when I was preparing this video :D It's a PDF of a book that reconstructs his library. I'll have to look through it myself. I wish I had found it earlier :) fedordostoevsky.ru/pdf/lib_2005.pdf I hope it helps :)
Отлично! Очень интересно и полезно! Ты не возражала бы поделиться твоим исследованием и ссылками? Я очень хочу поглядеть на список книг, особенно христианских книг, которые Федер Михайлович читал.
Я просто в гугле искала разные списки его любимых книг. Если религиозная литература больше всего интересует, то вот эта статья будет интересна blog.predanie.ru/article/chto-chital-dostoevskij-kopaemsya-v-lichnoj-biblioteke-pisatelya/
U could do fav books of: Chekhov, Gogol, Pushkin, Turgenev, Rimsky-Korsakov. Now for something different. U could talk about the most well-known books that made it on the infamous list of books banned by the Catholic Church, aka The Index of Prohibited Books, and why these titles earned their notoriety according to certain religious authorities.
Yes, Lermontov too (the author of Hero of Our Time). Two of Russian great writers died in duels. But it case of Pushkin he was defending his family's honor (his wife was rumored to have cheated on him with d'Anthès, his opponent). In case of Lermontov, he was a bully. As far as I know he humiliated one of the officers and that officer challenged him with a duel where Lermontov died.
Wonderful video!!! :) Dostoevsky is a favorite of mine and it's one of my reading goals to read everything he's ever written. I would love to see a video on Gogol, Bulgakov, and Solzhenitsyn :)
Thank you very much 🌟 I'm so happy you enjoyed 🌞 That's a great goal! How many of his novels do you have left? I will definitely make lists for all 3 of them at some point 🌞
I've read three of the four long novels and several of the shorter ones. I also want to read Joseph Frank's five-volume biography of Dostoevsky. I only have the first book so I need to save up for the other four lol!! Thank you for this video (and your other videos, too, of course). :)
Good video. I have only read one of Dostoevsky's books, The Brothers Karamazov, but eventually I will get around to Crime and Punishment. I have never read anything by George Sand, Victor Hugo or Stendhal, but I should do.
I'm trying to find more contemporary Russian litterature, all the classics are amazing, but the modern authors are often not translated or well-known. I read Aleksej Slapovskij's 'oni' and really liked it a lot! If you can maybe just do one video on modern writers and their influences? All the classical authors I'm also really looking forward to you videos about! Thank you for taking the time to create such good content! :D
To be honest I haven't read many contemporary Russian authors myself 🙃 I've only recently decided to try them. I decided to start with Ludmila Ulitskaya since my parents and their friends really like her books. But I've found some interesting authors I want to check out. I think I'll make a video about them and later once I've actually read them I could go into more detail about their work 🌞📚 Thank you for your encouragement and recommendation. Now I want to check out Oni too. I haven't heard of this author 📖☕
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What are some other authors you'd like to see in these series? 📚🌟
Tchekhov
Thomas Hardy
Lovecraft
Gorky
Selimovic.
he also liked Karamazin and Balzac, Gogol and Lermontov and Herzen and Tyuchev and Soloveev and Cervantez
He also loved The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He tried to translate it but failed because it's a very long book. There is a Disney movie based on that book and it's the most dostoevskian thing ever.
Dostoevsky also lived Walter Scott a lot.
Along with Cliff at 'Better Than Food', this is one of my favourite book channels. It's a yin-yang kind of balance. Cliff's like a dangerous hot ol' fox from the edge of town, the bad side of the tracks and you're like the clean and civilised British Shorthair cat pampered in the cafe BUT with eyes that see EVERYTHING, giving nothing away. You are therefore, a cafe sphinx, LOL, :D
😆😆😆 cafe sphinx is the most interesting comparison I've had 😅 but I'm very happy that you're enjoying my videos and it really means a lot to me 😊 I'll do my best to continue making interesting videos 📚🌟 Thank you very much for your support and kind words
great great video thank you
I loved how you incorporated bits and pieces of Dostoevsky's bio/life, he was an interesting man
He really was. I feel like many writers had such interesting lives. It gives an interesting perspective on their works 🌟
I am loving this series. It's a great video idea! Now I need to check for myself all of the French authors you've mentioned
Thank you! 🌞 I'm glad the videos are interesting and you're finding new authors!
I've just started to read "The House of the Dead" and came upon your video which is excellent! Your English is very good. I've tagged a few of the books you mention here and added them to my list to read in Goodreads. I jumped for joy when you mentioned "Don Quixote" because I've been wanting to read it for quite some time but it's just so darn l-o-n-g. Though I did read "War and Peace" with my book club and enjoyed it very much. That is where I learned that the gentry spoke French in Russia. :) I will have to check out more of your videos as this one was so interesting. Thank you so much for collecting all of this information and presenting it to us book people! :)
I am reading Don Quixote now (almost finished) I enjoy the characters of Don Quixote and Sancho very much. Their personalities and relationships are just lovely, often funny, but always very heartwarming. I think they are my favorite part about the novel as the plot is pretty repetitive and that's why the book feels a bit too long to me. But it's a 17th-century novel, so I guess applying our standards of what a plot should be to it wouldn't be fair. 📚
@@bookishtopics Yes, I've started to watch more of your videos (they are so interesting!) and saw that you've "taken that big book on!" :) How are you liking living in Japan? The culture must be so different from what you're used to but very interesting. I've heard their food is very good! Thanks so much for responding ... Debbie (my family is from Lithuania)
@@deblawrence8341 I like it here. It's very safe and people are kind. The food really is delicious. I wish we could travel around more, Japan is such a beautiful place and I'd love to see more of it, but unfortunately with the pandemic, it wasn't possible (we came right before it started). One more problem is that work-life balance is non-existent here :( but other than that it really is a wonderful place :)
I was looking forward to this video. Thanks a lot for making it!
I'm glad it was interesting 🌞📚
This is a great idea for a series! Thanks for these videos! They give very interesting insights
Thank you! 🌞 I'm glad you're enjoying the series 📚
Damn , gold gold , i found gold !
Thank you for the amazing content :)
I'm glad you enjoyed this video! Thank you very much for this kind comment!
Thank you for this interesting video! I would also like to see a video about Chekhov's and Turgenev's favourite books :)
I'm glad it was interesting 🌟 I really like making them too. I will certainly make videos for both Chekhov and Turgenev. Thank you for your suggestion 😊📖
This is most useful video 😍 I love this much, keep doing 😊
Love from India
Thank you! I'm glad it was interesting! 🌟
Hi! I've just found out your chanel after seeing this video suggested in my account. I instantly came to watch and listen to you, because I love Dostoievski and I want to read more Russian classical authors, such as Tolstoi, Chejov and Leskov. It was very interesting to learn about Dostoievski 's readings, thank you for all the valuable information. Have you read Leskov's works? I would love someone who has read him could recommend me with which of his books I could start. Also, I would love to know whether there are any Russian female classic writers, specially from the 19th century, is there any you can recommend?
Big hug from Chile.
~ Carolina
thank you so much for this series i LOVE to discover who my favorite author’s favorite authors are! i don’t know if you have done her yet, but could you do Charlotte Brontë one day? i love jane eyre !! great channel keep up the good work !
Thank you very much for your kind comment! It's very encouraging. I've made a video on Charlotte Bronte th-cam.com/video/NuKEq-2znNg/w-d-xo.html I hope you'll enjoy it :)
i should have looked for your Charlotte video prior to writing that comment, silly me! just watched it and added her Selected Letters to my wishlist! (also watched the russian classics video and added Young Country Doctor to my wishlist! so interesting!) love the channel, stay golden!
@@joshbryant6366 Young Country Doctor is amazing! I hope you'll love it as much as I did. Thank you for your kind words!
I love these videos, they're so good! ❤️😄
Perhaps you could make a video on female Russian authors? I always hear of the great male authors of Russian literature and women are often left out 😂❤️ Someone like Anna Akhmatova or Marina Tsvetaeva ❤️❤️😄😄
That is a great idea for a video, somebody suggested a similar one before, I think about female writers in the 19th century (I'm sorry, maybe it was you, I don't remember exactly). I need to look it up because I know of female writers in the 20th century and currently, but I don't know anybody from the 19th century, from what I found most of the women were doing translations and writing for children. I need to search more. It is actually very interesting, I'm curious, so thank you for suggesting this idea 🌞📚
I love this idea! I've read a lot of russian literatura but i don't know any female russian authors
Dostoevsky liked Edgar Allan Poe and even wrote about him.
i can't believe that someone with no soul dislikes this video
I love the way I found you
It's interesting to know how an author influences in another. About Quixote is one of the most famous Spanish books. it's about a man and his squire that wants to rescue a woman. It's an ironic book about society. There are some comics adaptations about this book. one of editorials that has an interesting adaptation into comis is Europe comic.
I really need to read Don Quixote. I didn't know Dostoyevsky was so fond of it until I started looking up information for this video. Now I'm curious and want to read it myself 🌞📚 Have you read it? Did you enjoy it? 🌞
@@bookishtopics It's very ioronic and depicts some aspects of the society. It's one of the moseft fampus books in my country,. Unluckily, few people read them here
Bookish Topics I highly recommend it. It tells the story of a man who reads so many books about knights errant that in the end he becomes mad and comes to believe that what those novels explain is true and what any an honorable man should do is become a knight himself.
So he decides to leave the small town where he lives, ready to perform feats, defeat giants and malevolent sorcerers and rescue princesses. His ‘adventures’ of course end always badly, and are a source of mockery from the people he and his companion Sancho find on the way
This is another excellent video, thank you. Reading Don Quixote is central to understanding The Idiot. Don Quixote should be read by everyone, because you’ll see that it also contains the seeds of Shakespeare and everyone that came after him.
I am enjoying your book tube account. Could you write the names in the description so that we can look them up? The French female author, what was her name?
George Sand
Oh, I'm sorry, I should have thought of it myself 😅 I will add all the names in the description. Thank you for suggesting it 🌞📚
Hi Tanya. While Dostoyevsky’s 200th birthday is coming I would like to read all his books. After I watched this video I wondered the book list of his library that you mentioned. Can you share it even it is Russian? Thank you:)
Sure, there's a few sources. I can't find now that exact webpage I looked at then, but here're some similar recourses: blog.predanie.ru/article/chto-chital-dostoevskij-kopaemsya-v-lichnoj-biblioteke-pisatelya/ (this is a short article that lists some of the authors that were found in his libraries and some books on religion.
This one I've just found and I wish I had found when I was preparing this video :D It's a PDF of a book that reconstructs his library. I'll have to look through it myself. I wish I had found it earlier :) fedordostoevsky.ru/pdf/lib_2005.pdf
I hope it helps :)
@@bookishtopics Thank you. They seem very useful.
Отлично! Очень интересно и полезно! Ты не возражала бы поделиться твоим исследованием и ссылками? Я очень хочу поглядеть на список книг, особенно христианских книг, которые Федер Михайлович читал.
Я просто в гугле искала разные списки его любимых книг. Если религиозная литература больше всего интересует, то вот эта статья будет интересна blog.predanie.ru/article/chto-chital-dostoevskij-kopaemsya-v-lichnoj-biblioteke-pisatelya/
@@bookishtopics спасибо!
Dostoyevsky favourite author is Nicolai Gogol
U could do fav books of: Chekhov, Gogol, Pushkin, Turgenev, Rimsky-Korsakov.
Now for something different. U could talk about the most well-known books that made it on the infamous list of books banned by the Catholic Church, aka The Index of Prohibited Books, and why these titles earned their notoriety according to certain religious authorities.
That is a very interesting idea! 🌞 I will look into this. Thank you very much for your suggestion 🌟📚
@@bookishtopics U r most welcome.
finding out pushkin died in a duel has changed my life tbh
Yes, Lermontov too (the author of Hero of Our Time). Two of Russian great writers died in duels. But it case of Pushkin he was defending his family's honor (his wife was rumored to have cheated on him with d'Anthès, his opponent). In case of Lermontov, he was a bully. As far as I know he humiliated one of the officers and that officer challenged him with a duel where Lermontov died.
@@bookishtopics thank you so much for your response ❤
I love these videos! They offer such an interesting insight into these writers.
Thank you very much 😊 I'm glad you're enjoying these videos, I really like making them 🌞📚
Wonderful video!!! :) Dostoevsky is a favorite of mine and it's one of my reading goals to read everything he's ever written. I would love to see a video on Gogol, Bulgakov, and Solzhenitsyn :)
Thank you very much 🌟 I'm so happy you enjoyed 🌞 That's a great goal! How many of his novels do you have left?
I will definitely make lists for all 3 of them at some point 🌞
I've read three of the four long novels and several of the shorter ones. I also want to read Joseph Frank's five-volume biography of Dostoevsky. I only have the first book so I need to save up for the other four lol!! Thank you for this video (and your other videos, too, of course). :)
Good video. I have only read one of Dostoevsky's books, The Brothers Karamazov, but eventually I will get around to Crime and Punishment. I have never read anything by George Sand, Victor Hugo or Stendhal, but I should do.
same here. I've ever read Sand, Hugo or even Dumas. I really want though. Hopefully at some point we'll get to them 🌞📚
So have you both read The Red and The Black by Stendhal yet ?
@@Kherian888 Negativeness, but I have bought a copy and will probably read it this year.
I love these series. Very interesting to learn what great authors were reading.
Thank you! I'm very happy it's interesting and you enjoy these videos 🌿
Thank you for sharing this! I am now curious to read Poor Folk and something by Gogol, Pushkin as well as George Sand.
I need to read George Sand myself. Dostoyevsky got me curious about her books 🌞📚
I love this series. It was a fabulous idea! Thank you for all of your content! It's a joy to watch
I love Russian Lite. Lovely video.
I'm trying to find more contemporary Russian litterature, all the classics are amazing, but the modern authors are often not translated or well-known. I read Aleksej Slapovskij's 'oni' and really liked it a lot! If you can maybe just do one video on modern writers and their influences? All the classical authors I'm also really looking forward to you videos about! Thank you for taking the time to create such good content! :D
To be honest I haven't read many contemporary Russian authors myself 🙃 I've only recently decided to try them. I decided to start with Ludmila Ulitskaya since my parents and their friends really like her books. But I've found some interesting authors I want to check out. I think I'll make a video about them and later once I've actually read them I could go into more detail about their work 🌞📚 Thank you for your encouragement and recommendation. Now I want to check out Oni too. I haven't heard of this author 📖☕