This book was great! I felt like george eliot was having a conversation with me about all the characters' motives and intentions. A really thoughtful writer.
Thanks Mathew;excellent synopsis of Middlemarch.I intend to read it next along with the Brothers karamazov. My offer to you is to read my favourite novel, The Magus by John Fowles. A complex modern/postmodern novel around 600pp. It is an intriguing non murder mystery involving a young English teacher who goes to Greece and meets the Magus, an enigmatic character who keeps the teacher,Nicholas, as well as the reader totally off balance for the whole novel. He does this through a series of ruses as to his identity and vocation. The novel winds its existential way to its culmination, necessitating the reader along the way to do reaserches on Greek,Roman,and even Persian mythology;to read Shakespearean The Tempest,as well as his Masques. It is a thoroughly engrossing book that will keep you riveted till the end. Cheers Paul,in Australian.
Your synopsis brought _Middlemarch_ all back to me. It’s been several years since I’ve read it, but it just crystallized in my mind via your retelling. Since I’ve also read _Brothers Karamazov_ I appreciate that you compared/contrasted the two works.
Middlemarch. Yes, gossipy goings on. Love the length of the book. I can see and place myself within the story. Beautifully written. I can see reading to his book again in say another year. 😊😊
Dostoyevsky to George Eliot. That's a jump and a half. I love Middlemarch. I agree there are certain similarities. However, Middlemarch is astounding. Both good, but whereas you are sorry to see the back of the Middlemarch, somehow, even though Dostoyevsky is also great, you don't feel like you are friends with his characters. I have the same edition on preorder, but it isn't released here in the UK until October. This is a a excellent video Matthew.
Great video!! If you’re still looking for the next book, The Seven Good Years by Etgar Keret might be good! It’s a memoir formatted like a short story book (usually the author writes fictional short stories). I just finished Moby Dick for the first time, and I am rereading Keret as a nice pallet cleanser that still keeps me thinking.
While Middlemarch is great I thought Adam Bede was by far her best work. Second would be Mill on the Floss. Great companion books would be Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd and Jude The Obscure, Hardy's last novel.
To say the truth, gossip is the principle use of human soeech and, as Schapenhauer observed, provides flatly imbecilic pleasure without limit to the aberage day😢
I don't remember saying I was afraid of Balzac or Musil. I've read a great handful of Balzac and consider him one of my favorite writers and I've read The Man without Qualities, which of course is a monument.
