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There are no divisions for me. We all have been the history of the world for centuries . "I am the world, and the world is me." The present moment is now. Krishnamurti was another great philosopher. I love undeniably great philosophers and writers. Thank you again, "Fiction Beast." Music and art and creativity. 🙏❤️🌍🌿🕊🎵🎶 "It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. Eric Hoffer.
Appreciated the summaries. Perhaps you are selling Tolstoy short a little by saying he "ran away from his wife" at the end of his life when the reality is far more complex and interesting. Both men were very religious, but Dostoevsky was a traditionalist conservative (orthodox) while Tolstoy was a religious and social reformer whose extensive Christian writings and correspondence influenced even Gandhi. Tolstoy's Christian beliefs caused a gradual change in his life and led him on a journey to renounce his wealth and fame, educate the children of his peasants, and even to a desire to give his peasants his land--something that naturally didn't sit well with his wife, who did not share the same level of enlightenment. Tolstoy may deserve some criticism but it needs to be fair and balanced in light of his own personal journey.
Fiction Beast, you are one of my favorite programs on RU-vid. You bring Dickens, Tolstoy, Doedysifsky, or any writer you discuss with depth with fervor and complete luminosity. With the deepest appreciation and respect for all your videos. One question, if I may ask, have you ever written anything?What a dedicated teacher you are. 🙏♥️🌍🎵🎶
I'm not watching the video now but will save it for later. Thank you for this, I absolutely love it whenever you make a video, such a pleasure it is to listen to these. 2h30m wow.
Thank You for this. This year I finished War and Peace and am now about to finish Notes from Underground. This was great timing for me to have this lengthy comparison at the end :)
Please do a video on Victor Hugo and his masterpiece Les Miserables because its a gem that deserves a video on its own. It was a life changing experience for me and its sad theres not enough content on him on youtube. I really hope you take my suggestion. Thanks a lot!
Bro you're awesome. I've never read these authors and don't read much fiction, but I've been listening to your vids at work today, been 5 hours so far , last one was the philosophers piece, and you sir, paint a wonderful picture while spawning the segment in my mind that will now not allow me to ignore their work, and yours. Thanks for talking about what you love and putting it into the world. Legend.
Simple excellent! Thank you for sharing your depth of knowledge and understanding of Russian history through their son's Tolstoy and Dostoevsky ... simply excellent .
Only 10 minutes in but, another intellectually interesting video from you. Thanks for creating these wonderful videos. I was wondering if you have ever, or would ever cover Cormac McCarthy?
Τις ιστορίες του Dickens μέσες άκρες τις καταλαβαίνω ενώ για τα βιβλία του Tolstoy έχω πολλά ερωτήματα. Για τα βιβλία του Dostoevsky ακόμα αναρωτιέμαι. Ο πιο αγαπημένος μου είναι αυτός που καταλαβαίνω λιγότερο Υ.Γ. Το βίντεο είναι επιπέδου πανεπιστημιακής διατριβής
Excepting for the coarse ZZ Top-esque beard, I don’t know what you mean by saying he's unattractive. Au contraire! Dark, tallish, deep set serious eyes...he would be considered attractive in his clean shaven youth. ????
There’s two kinds of people in life, usually uncovered by making them choose between the following : Mozart/Beethoven, Beatles/Rolling Stones, McCartney/ Lennon, Wordsworth/ Coleridge, Constable/ Turner, Freud/Yung and Tolstoy/Dostoyevsky. 😉
Around 2:24:39 you read: "...and sometimes one manifests itself, sometimes another,..." I don't understand why it reads "itself" while I could understand "himself" in lieu. Could you explain to me why it's "itself" please?
don't know if I agree with dickens charters being 'slightly more square', 'or 'little room to grow.', considering the novels i have read, certainly follow the hero's journey in the growth of the charters. 'Christmas carol' has Ebenezer scrooge, or David Copperfield, (2 quick examples), who have actual change of who they are... Tolstoy's characters (for me) always seemed predictable, in the idea that they never surprised you with the actions, no contradiction of their character. anyway... love the video... just thinking outload, most of dickens great work is genre of bildungsroman, where growth from experience is expected, as Tolstoy had a fatalist Russian futility to his characters. although interesting, the behavior seems predictable. maybe its just me, i was wrong one time before, so... anyway, I love them both.... just felt like writing this... again, love the videos.
WAR EDwin STARR. RIP I am retired and on a pension, and my rent goes up every month, due to the USA dollar getting less pesos. I can still live here in Queretaro, help none beggars, and stock up with preps for emergencies. I do not keep money anymore, and offered to pay 3 months rent for a steady rate, but they never got back to me. I only ask once. Happy to see the dollar rising, since my retirement is in dollars. I order groceries etc. online for home delivery. Mexico is my second home. USA got too deadly and expensive. I left in 2021 at 79. I still must be ALERT, for you must protect yourselves from the greedy and evil demons mixed with excellent people.
With all due respect to a great writer, Anna Karenina's characters are vivid, realistic, convincing, etc., but not attractive. That's one reason (or excuse) for not having read War and Peace. The characters in Dickens' and Dostoyevsky's novels may not be convincing, but they are attractive (which does not necessarily mean you want to be friends with them).
This is an interesting mixture of valuable information and useless rubbish. I've never heard of writers being compared, for example, based on statistics. Statistics? For literature?
An amazing video. Unfortunately you make a little mistake. Karl Marx never wrote about total equality for all like a philosophical John Lennon. I dont mean to be picky but thats really the opposite of what Marx was writing about. For Mark the proletariat was superior to the burgiousie and the aristocrats are the untouchables.
