Natsume Sōseki - Kusamakura BOOK REVIEW
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Damian Flanagan Talks:
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Oh my god I’m soooo happy you liked it ! And super glad to hear your thoughts on it ! This was a very interesting review. Once you’re done moving I’ll try sending you something else :)
Thanks again!
Thank you for the strong recommendation. A few weeks ago, I started reading the books of Shusaku Endo and Yukio Mishima. I can now add Sōseki to that list of Japanese writers!
Mannn your reviews and recommendation have really put some extra magic to my readings! You're doing good
Thank you for this incredible review. You articulated so much of what I felt reading this profoundly beautiful novel. A perceptive review that, for me, perfectly captured the experience of reading Kusamakura. Thank you. I’ve just discovered your channel and have subscribed! With much gratitude 🙂
A Thai director named a peach a pong barassa the cool? That's what the subtitles said, I don't actually know what you said lol. Edit: Google is an incredible tool. I basically put in some gibberish letters that sounded vaguely like what you pronounced and then added "thai director" at the end and it gave me Apichatpong Weerasethakul. That's incredible.
This sounds like it would be a great read. I always enjoy that meditative atmosphere of writing.
That thing about stories having to adhere to structure and losing something in the process strikes deep and true for me. You've put into words what I've been feeling at times, late at night. Kind of liberating, but also scary.
Bought and read it after seeing it on your channel. Thank you, Cliff! Appreciate you recommending good books as I have wasted so much time being disappointed as lots of reviews out there are not honest. Please don't change and don't get sucked in by companies whose intent is to use you for sales, please remain stubborn.
Excellent review! Great stuff my man! BTW currently reading A Little Life, I guess I will see a review here sooner or later, it‘s so like this channel!
Thank you for a review as beautiful, open and calm as the book itself :)
You're my favorite TH-camr. Listening to your channel is like chilling out with a friend.
If you're ever in Prague, drop me a line and I'll treat you to a local beer and plenty of books.
Roman Jones I always wanted to live in Prague ;)
Welp, there's another book to add to my never-ending TBR list. Man, I love your reviews. Mine are ranting, raving, expletive-laced rants :'D
I've always wanted to read a book like this. Just ordered it. Thanks!
『草枕』by 夏目漱石
Omg so happy you've grown so much since I saw u at 3k???! NICE...
You should read "Niebla" by Miguel de Unamuno, maybe the best spanish novel of the past century. You'll love it.
Niebla is his best. San Manuel Bueno, Mártir is really good, too. About a priest that is secretly an atheist but believes that what he preaches is good.
Punished Diplomat havent read it, ill give it a try.
Que excelente vídeo. Vim aqui pela Tatiana Feltrin - TLT.
It's great video. I'm here by Tatiana Feltrin.
Goiânia - BR
Have you read No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai？？ one of my favourite Japanese authors
The book is quite similiar to Notes from the Underground
Dude - you'd love Murakami. His magnum opus = Wind Up Bird Chronicle, although almost every book he wrote has something to enjoy. I've yet to read a clunker by him yet.
Writing a essay on this book. Helps a lot!! Thank you!
a profound and brilliant book.
I´ve just discovered this channel, and yet i didn´t check out more than 3 o 4 reviews (and here we have tons of it!) i see their high quality and carefullnes of each one, im already a faithfull fan jaja^^ The proof of my faith, since i cant give the channel not even a coin... just for now, is that i read Kusamakura (in a spanish translation) following your recomendation ^^ For feedback's sake i might say that Kusamakura started great for me, like 10 out to 10 points, like if i were a school teacher or something; all those theories about keeping a sane distance from the "real world" and its suffering etc sound perfect. But! (haha there is always a "but" somewhere and maybe that is the thing for wich we all continue seeking and searching :O) the narrator's claim of pursuing the "un-human" perfection of art started, at some point, to bug me, to annoy me so much, that i almost quit near the very end (but its a short novel, so why dont be patient just a bit more, right?). So, finally, i got to the last chapter and then (spoiler alert) the book, for me, regain its balance talking about the real world once more, from the suffering, from talking about an innocente kid going, voluntarily and blindly, to a national (big and painful word very frecuently) war. It was like Soseki saying theres an ethereal world in wich beauty is possible, but theres also a "real" world that brings pain and sadness to you. At the end the painter-narrator says that having seen Nami´s sadness born because of her cousin's departure to war, he is able to start his longed and never doable picture. That final line, mmm the return of human sentiments to the in-human world of art and creation was fine for me (but also kind of sadictic, right?) Mmm, there is a buch of stuff, for sure, that i can´t totally get it about the budism and zen budism and the link between budism and art-forms.
Summing-up! It was a great reading for me and thank you so much for reccomend it! ^^. Saludos desde Córdoba, Argentina ^___^``!
Bach's Goldberg aria the first time I heard Glenn Gould's recording of it reduced me to tears. It sounded to me like the struggles of life being accepted and even embraced with a tranquil patience and heroism. I can certainly see how this book would have affected Gould especially coupled with that particular piece of music. Sorry for being slightly off topic, but Bach's ghost hangs over me and I'm in a bit of an indulgent, reflective mood. I'll definitely be buying this book when I have some money.
i just ordered this book after reading Flanagan’s essay about Gould and Soseki. very excited to read. thanks for the video.
have you read any Haruki Murakami yet?
I need to start Japanese literature, I'll be checking this one out, also because I really enjoyed Pedro Paramo
Had the same feeling with Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera"
Please read Mo Yan's Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out!! He is probably the most influential Chinese author alive. His style of magical realism is so interesting to read! (Also, love love love this channel. I wish I know you as a book friend.)
Hey I just discovered your channel! Your reviews is awesome. ( thanks to, journey to the end of the night review it's my favorite book. ) you should definitely read the book if you haven't read it yet Zorba The Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis.
YOU NEED TO READ Tarantula: the Skin I Live in ;
it's a very disturbing thriller which somehow reflects some aspects of human nature .. I it's so good please read it I think you'll love it
Hi there, Cliff, from germany.
1. Can you/do you read books in German?
2. Some recommendations (not related to 1.):
- Max Frisch - Stiller
- Robert Musil - The man without qualities
3. If you are still working on the Bataille-project: do you know The Eye's dream or Gankyu no yume from Hisayasu Sato? I haven't seen it, cause I don't know how to access it, but I think it might be of interest to you.
4. and last, where are all your movie reviews?
Cliff, you went to film school I believe. Could you tell me what your favorite camera for stills or video would be? I am extremely curious to know. Big fan of your show - Ben
I think it's time for Murakami-san on this channel :) (Wind-up bird or Kafka on the shore maybe?)
This. I'd love to hear his opinion on Wind-Up Bird or Hardboiled Wonderland.
The first chapter of Wind up Bird is one of the worst first chapters I have ever read. That passage about spaghetti and spaghetti music made me want to vomit. "When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's 'The Thieving Magpie', which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta."
I'm sorry, but can you get more tawdry than that?
Cliff if you do that Murakami, we unsubscribe from You and you from Literature.
H. Bloom Haruki is way, way better than Ryu, man. And this is coming from someome who enjoyed Almost Transparent Blue and Coin Locker Babies quite a bit.
Murakami isn't overrated at all. He's like Vonnegut in that it's not his literary chops or prose style that make him great, but his voice and the way he sees the world. It's his obsessions and humor and feelings about the world that make him so captivating and enjoyable to spend time reading.
Natsume Soseki is my favourite writer!
Any chance you do some plays some time or another? Marat/Sade perhaps??
You should read Japanese Gothic Tales by Kyoka Izumi if your looking for mystical horror vintages.
Have you ever read something by Ryuunosuke Akutagawa? The short story on which Akira Kurosawa's Rashoumon is based is by him.
Also, since you mentioned paranoia and goofy humour, I have to ask: Will you ever reveiw Pynchon?
His short story Hell Screen is sublime.
Perfect story indeed. Haunting.
I don't know the English titles, because i read them in German. Is that the one with the painter who paints a picture of hell for some lord? That is one of my favourites.
Exactly. It's called Jigokuhen in Japanese. It is one of his masterpieces.
The one with the robbers is also a great read.
If you liked Kusamakura, you'd love Hesse's Rosshalde
You cannot believe how excited I am! I've been meaning to get to this novel for ages and now this! I am so, so grateful!
Where would you like me to send you the address?
I've been meaning to get to it, because I would like to get inspired by the sense of living portrayed in this book. Now I cannot wait to read it and Review/discuss it on my channel!
Again, thank you so much and let me know where I can send you the address :)
Hi Miriam! Congrats and thanks for all the help - Through Patreon will be fine, I'll send you a message right now.
Better Than Food: Book Reviews Awesome! I replied with my mailing address! Again, thank you so much!
Have you read Stanislaw Lem's A Perfect Vacuum?
Links to music mentioned in the video? :-) please or at least the names :-) please
I felt exactly the same reading this book( in french).
The moon is beautiful isn't it 😉
Sorry you're leaving my home state. But I hope all goes well with your upcoming changes.
I think that Thai director goes by "Joe" to avoid pronunciations like that! ;)
Try Kokoro or Sanshiro please.... :)
Kokoro is probably the greatest book I've ever read. I admire Soseki's work in general. I've read I Am a Cat and Botchan. Great books. :) I just genuienly love Soseki, and Japanese literature. I've read Ryunosuke Akutagawa stories aswell, and I God damn loved it. Now I am reading Kenzaburo Oe's A Personal Matter, then I will read Yukio Mishima's The Sea of Fertility.
If you want to read some fantastic Chinese literature, read Lu Xun.
Broad is the word you looking for.
You must review Sea Wolf by Jack London, thrilling phsychological novl
Can't believe you have no W.G. Sebald here
Check out Rachel Cusk, Krasznahorkai, and Emmanuel Carrere.
Did you ever get a chance to visit Jack Kerouac's house in St. Petersburg?
I just looked it up - it's like 5 minutes away from me. Maybe I'll just read On The Road finally and walk over...
What is your wedding ring made out of?
Nick Barefoot it's made of the Paulo Coelho's readers bones
Every time I don't get picked, a little part of me dies.
I’m currently reading “How to read literature like a professor” and I cannot help but leave a comment here that I’ve successfully found a hidden sex scene in this book!
Damn you're moving again? Jesus haha
you look a lot like Van Gough and i don't know if you did that on purpose.
Can someone write the name of the Thai director he mentions
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Better Than Food: Book Reviews thanks. I'll watch his films. And you've definetely sold me on kusamakura with that excerpt you read.
Anyone read Vurt by Jeff Noone?
He is where I got the title for my channel.
You an actor? I think I saw you on agents of shield.
But more importantly have you read Vurt? What is your fave weird fiction book, U read the city and the city (BBC recently made it into a show)?
Thanks
CAN YOU READ SOME PYNCHON THANKS