I have been searching for something like this for so long! Learning how to read between the lines and understanding these works...thank you very much. I am looking forward to the next deep dive. Btw, what are your thoughts on a Hero of our time? Greetings from the Netherlands.
Thank you, Diradj! If you like this style, you might enjoy the Hardcore Literature Book Club. We're doing Tolstoy atm, but Chekhov and Turgenev is coming up soon: www.patreon.com/hardcoreliterature - As for Lermontov, unfortunately I'm not super acquainted with his work, but will check him out! :)
Benjamin , that was lovely. Thank you. Your reading brought the story alive and your insights along the way … fantastic…. When you talked about the sound of the puffs when a cigarette is 🔥….loved it . Please do a short story again in a similar format. Thanks again. I’m a new Patreon member!
Turgenev's story (which I always think of as 'Lukerya') about the peasant woman, Lukerya, he discovers when out hunting, who lives alone after a paralyzing illness. A beautiful story!
Thank You! This has motivated me to subscribe to your Patreon as I read Don Quixote. You should definitely do this with other short stories. Also your eyes are spellbinding.
Hey Benjamin! Idk if you'll see this comment but I wanted to suggest/ask you to do more of these! I'd love to hear you read & give commentary on some Herman Melville short stories.
A great reading- full of beautiful observations of how this great story works on our soul. The relationship of son and mother as well as the terrible ending, remind me of Constantin and Arcadina in The Seagull.
As someone who has been struggling to read books again, this was awesome and it helped. I am subscribing and hoping that I will see more of these. Thank you
Chekhov's short story "I want to Sleep" is one of the scariest short things I've ever read. Benjamin, are you familiar with the work of Leonid Andreev? His short (and not only short) stories are also impressive. It seems to me that he is undeservedly little known among non-Russian-speaking booktubers.
Absolutely amazing. This has been one of the most pleasant experiences with a short story that I’ve had, and it’s because of your wonderful insights and thought provoking observations. I feel like I’ve really learned something from this, and I’ll apply this kind of deep reading to my own personal reads
I read along in a danish translation. What a beautiful and sad short story. I could not fathom it all in one read, so I am going to give it a few more reads. I would deeply appreciate a video like this on a Turgenev short story. Perhaps from “A Sportsman’s Sketches”. Most of the short stories by Chekhov appears to have a main theme according to my interpretation. I have read five short stories by Chekhov and in all of these short stories there is a betrayal woman. Can someone who have read more of Chekhov please tell me if this woman character includes in most of Chekovs short stories? Love from 🇩🇰
Thanks to you, I have now read for the first time in my life this story in the original Russian; Also, if you pay attention to details, it was after reading the newspaper headline "Figaro" that Volodya took a revolver and fired. Could it mean that he drew a parallel between Beaumarchais' play The Marriage of Figaro, where the idea of the moral superiority of the commoner and jester Figaro "defeats" aristocracy and bohemian rotten sanctimony, which our hero failed to do?
Thank you that was lovely . i like Checkhov his plays and The Idiot but i didnt see into his work the way you have this will help me to see things more clearly as i have chosen Checkhov as my first study to read all his works as you sugest in your other video I wish i had found you a lot earlier but feel thrilled to be able to catch up thanks to you These videos and the way you have explained everything are priceless thank you just doesnt cut it Wishing you all you wish for yourself take care and be happy
