I'm brazilian and it was so exciting to see you'll be reading brazilian classics! Machado de Assis is definitely amazing, I hope you enjoy these books!
I would recommend that you should start with Dom Casmurro and leave Euclides da Cunha for later, Machado de Assis has a great writing and his books are always fun to read. Also I wanna say that, as a Brazilian, I’m really happy to see that the Brazilian literature is being appreciated ❤️ thank you
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Machado de Assis and Clarice Lispector are great choices. Hope you enjoy the adventure.
I love Brazilian literature and Clarice Lispector is my favourite author. I recommend you The Passion According to GH. It is such a great book. I love your videos. They are always so interesting.
You should read A Hundred Years of Solitude, and The Open Veins of Latin America if you want to get a grasp on South American literature, I'd also recommend Julio Cortázar's short stories, he's probable one of the biggest Argentine writers of the 20th century, and lastly another modern classic I'll recommend is Blindness by Jose Saramago. Love the videos💞
I'm so happy to see so much Brazilian Lieterature here! It's one of the best in world yet severely underappreciated and underestimated. The joy of seeing your prestige with it doesn't fit in my chest! Please don't further away from more of Clarice Lispector ("The Passion According to G.H.", as well as her short stories, which are mesmerizing). Furthermore, I must beg you to, please, read "The Brothers: A Novel", by Lebanese descent Brazilian author Milton Hatoum, as well as "We Were Six", by Maria José Dupré! Those two are some of favourite books, and will hopefully be transforming in your reading perspectives! P.S. There's also Guimarães Rosa, a Brazilian author cararactherized for his studies of regional dialects, language innovations and short stories. Likely there are no comparable writers in worldwide Literature. Of his works, "The Devil to Pay in the Backlands" is of utterly importance. Thank you very much! Subscribed!
I'm brazilian and Machado de Assis is my favorite author! I love "O Alienista", one of his best book. Clarice Lispector, Lygia Fagundes Telles ("As meninas") and Raquel de Queiroz ("O quinze") are amazing too. 🇧🇷
OMG, Clarice Lispector is the goddess of Brazilian literature. She’s not only a classic, she’s unique. Watch Euclides da Cunha. This is not a novel, and it is hard going for even Brazilians like myself. It can be a little too much. I would tread with care. Lima Barreto is so underrated. You will love it.
Os Sertões é muito difícil mesmo no início, tem que ter persistência pra chegar no diamante que ele é. Mas compensação qualquer coisa depois vai ser um passeio no parque
Ok, so, Euclides da Cunha and his greatest book started as a result of naturalism and eugenics, it is determinist, so it is really hard to read if you part of that culture and that people. He started trying to explain the "sertanejos" and why they were fighting against the Brazilian republic, having in mind their land and their ethnicity (which is very complex), after months of resistense, Canudos was transformed into piles of dust and dead people, the Brazilian government killed them by not allowing water and food to come in, they died by littles, because they would not succeed otherwise, Canudos was a community of people who intrinsically understood their land, they were winning in the beginning. Euclides da Cunha was there to explain their revolt in a very suiting way to the government, but it ended up being the only journalist piece of that tragedy that explained it in a respectful way from that age. It is very important to have in mind that cases like that are not rare, nordestinos, sertanejos, caipiras have always been treated like shit by Brazil. It is a masterpiece, but I really thing you should only read the "fight" part, cause the first two parts are a very determinist study of the nordestino land and people, so it can get very technical and, of course, pseudoscientific.
I came just to see what she would say about brazilian literature but ended up loving the whole video. I think i gonna start looking for welsh literature for now on. But pleaaaase, when you finish Dom Casmurro, tell us if you think she cheated or not (honestly its a question debated until this day)
I love to think that if he were alive, he would be getting asked this question during interviews supposed to be about his new release, he'd just roll his eyes, refuse to answer and get annoyed that no one gets how the book is not about that.
OMG I'm so excited to see more brazilian books aroud booktube. Captains of the Sands by Jorge Amado and Barren Lives by Graciliano Ramos are some of my favorites
Wow! So rare to see a Bootuber recommending Chinese literature! Lu Xun's short stories are often satirical and realistic. He was a fabulous writer when it comes to "Chinese-ness", a sharp observer of humanity, a fearless soul to fight against corruptive nature of certain tranditional Chinese value. I have a great respect for him. The Story of Stones is my all time favorite, a truly masterpiece. It may look like a family drama, but in essence it is way beyond that. It's hard to describe it in English, or in a few words in general. It's best to be inmersed in those beautiful ryhtm and prose to feel the underlying themes, the beauty and the decay, the true meaning of youth and life. Also I would recommend the Love in a Fallen City or Half a Lifelong Romance, both written by Elieen Chang. She was an iconic writer in 1940s China. Her stories are always excellent and realistic depiction of love and marriage, and how women's situation were in that period.
I recommend Julio Cortázar, argentinian author. I don't know if there any good translations of his works, though. He has some interesting short stories, and quite a unique writing style in my opinion! I don't think he suits everyone's taste but I think you should look him up and see for yourself! Love your channel 💕
You MUST read "The Woman from Tantoura: A Palestinian Novel" by Radwa Ashour. It is not as internationally famous as Nagib's works but it is pretty famous in Arabic culture. I think it would introduce new issues rarely talked about in the west so I think it would be a pretty good opportunity to learn about other cultures. Hope you enjoy it and enjoy whatever you read from the Arabic literature.❤❤
Oh my God, Lucy! I can’t believe you’re going to read the Hour of the Star! It’s one of my favourite books ever! I love Clarice Lispector! I see you have a lot of Brazilian fans and I’m definitely one of tem! Keep up with the Brazilian literature, it will surprise you! Try The Alienist by Machado de Assis, it’s really really good. ❤️
While I haven't read Dom Casmurro yet, I have read The Alienist by Machado De Assis, and I loved it! It is a delightful novella that I was able to read it in once sitting.
You are such a sweet person and you inspire and motivate me so much to push through my comfort zone. I read so often and so many books and I'm just getting tired of reading books and not feeling like there was any takeaway from them. Like I'm just reading to increase some random statistical goal. I want to read books that mean something, that teach you something, and that stay with you and have lasting importance. Both you and your channel are things that I am very grateful for. Thank you Lucy.
A tip from a portuguese speaking native: when you have a "c" and a "h", it reads "x", so you say "Maxado" not "Macado" ;) and you should look into portuguese Literature (Portugal):Eça de Queiroz, Almeida Garrett, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Alexandre Herculano, Fernando Pessoa. Love your videos, and because of your recommendations I have been reading more Classics ;)
@@karinasdeluca even if you say that, people who dont speak portuguese won´t know that sound described this way. And x can have a "ch" sound, look up the word Xaile, the difference is that the sound is at the begining of the word than in the middle. Or the word baixo, ameixa, these have an "x" but is pronunced "ch". So is more easy to say to someone who doesnt speak portuguese to pronunce the "ch" like "x".
when you pulled out The Hour of the Star, when I tell you I SCREAMED!!!! This is my favorite book of ALL TIMES, like oh m GOD, I'm sure you'll love it!!!!!
I just read The Tales of Hoffmann in June! I reviewed it in my June Wrap-Up. Hoffmann also inspired two other pieces of classical art: the ballet The Nutcracker (he wrote the original short story) and the opera Les Contes d'Hoffmann (based on "The Sandman", "Councillor Krespel/The Cremona Violin", and "The Lost Reflection"). It's very meta and strange, but one of my favorite operas. I think that will be the focus of a video next month for my new opera series. Hope you enjoy the stories, too!
Lucy, please consider reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez! He won the Nobel Prize in Literature for that novel, it is a masterpiece and a hallmark of Latin America literature written in the Spanish language. There are some really beautiful editions out there and the translation is always good.
That would be awesome if she did!😁 I read it LONG ago & don't remember anything. Would love to read it if Lucy & others do like for Hispanic Heritage month or somethibg like that! Ha! -Pero si me encantó "El Amor En El Tiempo Del Cholera."💗
If you are looking for Japanese classics, you //have// to read The Tale of Genji!! Many consider it to be the oldest novel ever written. It is surprisingly accessible. I also recommend Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata and Masks by Enchi Fumiko.
I’m Lebanese Moroccan and I have to say that I’m glad that you want to read Arab literature, starting with Naguib Mahfouz. His works are taught in many Arab countries as part of our syllabus in Arabic. Palace Walk is the first book in a trilogy that he wrote knows as the Cairo trilogy. Although I wouldn’t say that that’s the best book to start by him. I’d say books that you could potentially start by him are “The Thief and Dogs”, The Karnak Cafe, Cairo Modern and Miramar.
The hour of the star is one of the saddest books I've ever read!! It's beautiful and you should start reading it right now lol. And I'm quite sure that everybody here who is brazilian, just like me, is excited about you having these brazilian classics and each one of us will recommend a better way to begin with, but actually we only wish you enjoy it and have the best time! Hope you like it! :)
Wonderful selection of Brazilian books! I've read all of these and if you can recommend one to start with, it's certainly Dom Casmurro. Clarice Lispector is my favorite writer and the story of Macabéa in Hour of the Star is incredible. Lima Barreto is guaranteed fun, especially with that title (which I love). Backalands is a non-fiction book, reporting a sad and revolting episode that took place in northeastern Brazil. I believe that the first part of the book will be quite boring, as it is a technical account of the geography and climate of the region. The second part has somewhat prejudiced ideas about the "sertanejos", but it gains more interesting outlines in some points, mainly in the beautiful description of the overflow of the cattle and when it starts to deal with Antônio Conselheiro's past. The last part is an accurate and sad account of everything that happened in Canudos.
Hii! I'm from Brazil and it's very exciting to see books from my country around the world. And Machado de Assis' writing is a bit complicated, so I suggest that you start with Dom Casmurro, because it's more easy than the other one.
Also, Egyptian: That Smell and Notes from Prison by Son'allah Ibrahim French: The Lover by Marguerite Duras American (USA): Giovanni's Room and Another Country by James Baldwin Korean: Flowers of Mold (short stories) by Ha Seong-nan NB: I'd call them all classics, but they're definitely published more recently. Of this bunch, I believe Giovanni's Room is the oldest and it was published in the mid-50s. I'm personally obsessed with 20th century literature and never was all that great at following the prompt to the letter.
I know it may seem obvious to a reader who wants to enjoy literature, and to be educated to be somewhat impartial ...but I appreciate your approach to reading a range of books with an unbiased approach to 'subject and culture' it says a lot about you character - in that you are diverse
I agree with the comments of Gabriel García Márquez and his beautiful books, but definitely you should read "Battles in the desert" by José Emilio Pacheco, also a Mexican author. It's one of my favorite books, it describes this feeling of nostalgia for life. I love your videos.
Hi Lucy! You should read Maria by Jorge Isaacs and of course 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The first is a classic of Colombian literature from 1867 and the second is more a modern classic that won de Noble for Literature. Aside from that, you should read books by Mario Vargas Llosa, Julio Cortazar, Carlos Fuentes and Jorge Luis Borges who were the most important writers during the Latin American BOOM decade of the 60s.
I’m new to your channel and this is the first video I’m watching. Coincidence or not, you’re talking about reading some brazilian literature and I’m from Brazil and I was really, really happy to hear that! I just had to subscribe to your channel! Machado de Assis is one of my favorite authors and Dom Casmurro one of my favorite books! Hope you have fun while reading them and enjoy it as much as we do!
If you enjoy reading autobiographies and if you can find it, I would recommend Sand in My Eyes by Seigniorage Russell Laune. It’s the story of life in Woodward, Oklahoma at the turn of the century. It’s very good.👍
dom casmurro is so damn good, I also love the posthumous memoirs of bras cubas, the narrator is so ironic and sarcastic. Both books criticize brazilian elite in the 19th century
The Shahnameh (the epic of persian kings ) by A. Ferdowsi, is a master piece of the 10th century AD, written in an extraordinary beautiful style, full of history, tradición, religion (zurvanism, zoroastrianism, islamism) and culture. An iconic book of old Iran. It is well worth reading it. Im enjoying the book very much!
I hope there's a translation of Machado's short stories in the UK because it's worth it. I hope you enjoy Dom Casmurro and tell us if his wife cheated on him or not because this is the greatest debate to ever exist in Brazilian literature to this day lol PS.: Clarice's short stories are also brilliant. So, more recs for you! :D
I love to read but have never read the classics. I want to but am kind of intimidated. You however have inspired me to broaden my scope of reading. Thank you so.much for making your videos. You have made this not so intimidating for me. I've made a promise to myself to start reading classics. Thank you again.
Still English language, but some late Victorian and Edwardian Australian classics are Seven little Australians and Snugglepot and Cuddlepie (if you read novels for kids) and My Brilliant Career, a great proto-feminist semi-autobiographical novel about a girl from the bush who wants to be an author. There’s also picnic at hanging rock and a fortunate life which I haven’t gotten to yet. My Brilliant Career and Picnic are also classic Aussie films.
Love to see so many good recommendations, I'll definitely be picking up a few of these! I would absolutely love to see more people talk about translated literature, there is so much wonderful stuff out there. If you need some more, some early twentieth century authors I dearly love are Sandor Marai (Hungarian), Karel Capek (Czech) and Tarjei Vesaas (Norwegian) ;).
Clarice is a must. I'll be honest and say I don't think Backlands from Euclides is that known? Personally I would have chosen a José de Alencar (wrote about natives) or a Jorge Amado book (he is also a post-modern like Clarice but we had several telenovelas that were adapted from his books). Also you are now gonna have no choice but to dive into Brazilian classics because we do come heavily as a group in the comments hahahaha :D
There are two short stories by Machado de Assis that may change the way you see the world, the first one is "The Devil's church" and the other one is "Father against Mother" both very powerful, but the second one is harder to digest...both masterpieces.
I'm so glad you're reading Naguib Mahfouz. I'm Iraqi and he's my favorite arabic author. Palace Walk is a good place to start. I would also recommend reading Children of the Alley/Children of Gebelawi, it's one of his best novels and the most controversial one. I would love to hear your thoughts on any of them. Happy reading! 💚
Palace walk is great place to start but you have to know that it's the 1st in a trilogy. The story is definitely worth reading.Mahfoudh is that kind of author who makes you live within the book and feel with the characters. He has that simple but still deep and descriptive style. He is one of the best people who represented the human psyche.
I was really impressed by ‘The Hour of the Star’. But I think her short stories are even better. Since you are in a short story vibe 🙂 (the penguin modern classic box has a book that contains 3 great stories by Lispector).
🇧🇷 As a Brazilian I also have some homework to do. I’m reading Machado and Clarisse this summer as I’ve read many English classics and not our own 😞 Penguin just released a new version of Machado’s The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cuba by Flora Thomson which was sold out in one day in the US (even I want to read it)!!! I saw some of her interviews and it seems she did a great work with the translation, as Machado’s style is very particular.
I believe you misspelled Claude McKay in your show notes -- only one 'a.' I haven't read anything by him yet, but his "Home to Harlem" is on my books-to-read list.
Please make a video when you finish all these books, I'm really curious about what you think about they, especially Dom Casmuro. That was my first classic and I just love Machado de Assis!
I'm brazilian and I've read both Dom Casmurro and The Hour of the Star. They're both great! I personally prefer Clarice's short stories than her novels (this one is a bit hard to get into). I've haven't read Lima Barreto and Euclides da Cunha yet, but I hear great thing about them too. I hope you enjoy them all!
I'm so glad you got so many brazilian books to read! I'm excited to know what your thoughts will be. I love Machado de Assis books and, just to help you with the sound of his name in portuguese, it is said Machado with a "sh" sound. Like in shut up or milk shake.
Hello, Lucy! I believe you may not find Backlands by Euclides da Cunha a good book to start with, especially because of the first part, which is a detailled description of the lands where the action takes place. But anyway, it is a masterpiece I hope you will enjoy reading! I got myself interested in most of the books you mentioned, especially the Chinese ones
I've read that Lu Xun collection, of which I think I liked the third book the best cos it revisits older Chinese legends. I'm not really up on my Chinese history so I didn't connect so much with the contemporary stories in his first two books (as you were saying about not getting cultural references). But definitely worth reading. I tried reading Story of the Stone once, and just couldn't get past the first few pages with Taoist and Buddhist characters called Vanitas, Mysterioso and Impervioso. ARGH. I will try again one day but I'm not in a great hurry. I read that Clarice Lispector book and kind of hated it. Mahfouz had a really long (1930s-2000s) and diverse career. The only one of his books I've read is Akhenaten Dweller in Truth, which I liked. I've accrued quite a few of his other books, just need to get around to actually reading them. Claude McKay seems to have been an interesting figure from what I read about him on Wiki. Going to add him to my to-read list. I want to read more Harlem Renaissance stuff after reading Nella Larsen's books last year. I second all the recommendations for One Hundred Years of Solitude other commenters have made.
Thanks for the heads-up on Welsh Women's Classics. Recommendation re Victorian autobiographies - "The Autobiographical Writings of John Clare", as it's a rare example of the voice of someone from a very poor background at that time.
You should definitely read Flora Thomson-DeVeaux’s new translation of The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas. I know her personally and I am positive she did an excellent job in translating Machado de Assis’s spirit, while also adding some notes to help English speakers to understand 19th century Rio de Janeiro.
I loved to see your interest in Brazilian literature! We have amazing writers and books. But I am not sure about your selection. All of them are classics and very good books, but BACKLANDS is too much arid for a non-brazilian, I think. Clarice is fantastic, but a little bit intimista, and not so easy to read. Machado and Barreto are the best ones for you to start. Maybe in the future you should try Jorge Amado or Érico Veríssimo - two of our best ones! Great vídeo!
I'm reading Malorys king Arthur. The middle English was hard at first but am tuned in now. Going to read the thousand and one nights. Whats your favourite Dickens? Mine is David Copperfeild.
‘The Time Regulation Institute’ (1954) by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Translated to English in 2014, over 50 years after its publication in Turkey, The Time Regulation Institute is a comic masterpiece from the master of Turkish Modernism. Couched in satire, Tanpınar’s novel is a critique of Turkey’s haphazard adaptation to Western modernisation; in it, we follow an offbeat set of characters as they attempt to ensure all the clocks in the country are set to Western time. While Tanpınar is also known for his essays and poetry, it is for his novels that he is most celebrated; the Istanbul-born author has been hailed by colleague Orhan Pamuk (Nobel winning author that I also recommend, along with Elif Shafak) as the greatest Turkish novelist of the 20th century.
Unfortunately I couldn't find many English translations of an earlier works but this one is also amazing: www.eadeverell.com/forreaders/forbidden-love/
Interesting reading list you have there, Lucy - should see you through whilst it's too stupid hot to sleep, hopefully. Mildly amused that you like books with a Lucy in them, because that immediately suggests Dracula, and that didn't work out too well. Anyway ... haven't read any of those, but how about some John Cowper Powys to flesh out the Welsh selection? Darned if I know what to make of him.
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I'm brazilian and it was so exciting to see you'll be reading brazilian classics! Machado de Assis is definitely amazing, I hope you enjoy these books!
I love Machado de Assis. I read and reviewed Posthumous Mmoirs of Bras Cubas. Amazing!
AMOOOO Dom Casmurro, mds q obra prima kkkk
I would recommend that you should start with Dom Casmurro and leave Euclides da Cunha for later, Machado de Assis has a great writing and his books are always fun to read.
Also I wanna say that, as a Brazilian, I’m really happy to see that the Brazilian literature is being appreciated ❤️ thank you
Machado de Assis and Clarice Lispector are great choices. Hope you enjoy the adventure.
I love Brazilian literature and Clarice Lispector is my favourite author. I recommend you The Passion According to GH. It is such a great book.
I love your videos. They are always so interesting.
You should read A Hundred Years of Solitude, and The Open Veins of Latin America if you want to get a grasp on South American literature, I'd also recommend Julio Cortázar's short stories, he's probable one of the biggest Argentine writers of the 20th century, and lastly another modern classic I'll recommend is Blindness by Jose Saramago. Love the videos💞
these are all magnificent 😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️
I Loved 100 years of Solitude. I read it when I joined my first reading group.
I'm so happy to see so much Brazilian Lieterature here! It's one of the best in world yet severely underappreciated and underestimated. The joy of seeing your prestige with it doesn't fit in my chest! Please don't further away from more of Clarice Lispector ("The Passion According to G.H.", as well as her short stories, which are mesmerizing). Furthermore, I must beg you to, please, read "The Brothers: A Novel", by Lebanese descent Brazilian author Milton Hatoum, as well as "We Were Six", by Maria José Dupré! Those two are some of favourite books, and will hopefully be transforming in your reading perspectives!
P.S. There's also Guimarães Rosa, a Brazilian author cararactherized for his studies of regional dialects, language innovations and short stories. Likely there are no comparable writers in worldwide Literature. Of his works, "The Devil to Pay in the Backlands" is of utterly importance.
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HAVE YOU SAID MACHADO DE ASSIS?? I'M HEEERE, my favorite book ever is Dom casmurro, the book that made me a classic lover 😍, I love the video !!
I'm brazilian and Machado de Assis is my favorite author! I love "O Alienista", one of his best book. Clarice Lispector, Lygia Fagundes Telles ("As meninas") and Raquel de Queiroz ("O quinze") are amazing too. 🇧🇷
i see brazilian and i click
love seeing people talking about my culture
Dom Casmurro is definitely the ultimate Brazilian classic.
Also, I think you'll enjoy Jose de Alencar novels.
yeah, Senhora is my favorite brazilian romantic novel
The Brazilian Literature is amazing! The books and the autors are excelents, I'm so happy people around the world read it.
OMG, Clarice Lispector is the goddess of Brazilian literature. She’s not only a classic, she’s unique. Watch Euclides da Cunha. This is not a novel, and it is hard going for even Brazilians like myself. It can be a little too much. I would tread with care. Lima Barreto is so underrated. You will love it.
Os Sertões é muito difícil mesmo no início, tem que ter persistência pra chegar no diamante que ele é. Mas compensação qualquer coisa depois vai ser um passeio no parque
Ok, so, Euclides da Cunha and his greatest book started as a result of naturalism and eugenics, it is determinist, so it is really hard to read if you part of that culture and that people. He started trying to explain the "sertanejos" and why they were fighting against the Brazilian republic, having in mind their land and their ethnicity (which is very complex), after months of resistense, Canudos was transformed into piles of dust and dead people, the Brazilian government killed them by not allowing water and food to come in, they died by littles, because they would not succeed otherwise, Canudos was a community of people who intrinsically understood their land, they were winning in the beginning. Euclides da Cunha was there to explain their revolt in a very suiting way to the government, but it ended up being the only journalist piece of that tragedy that explained it in a respectful way from that age.
It is very important to have in mind that cases like that are not rare, nordestinos, sertanejos, caipiras have always been treated like shit by Brazil.
It is a masterpiece, but I really thing you should only read the "fight" part, cause the first two parts are a very determinist study of the nordestino land and people, so it can get very technical and, of course, pseudoscientific.
I came just to see what she would say about brazilian literature but ended up loving the whole video. I think i gonna start looking for welsh literature for now on. But pleaaaase, when you finish Dom Casmurro, tell us if you think she cheated or not (honestly its a question debated until this day)
haha Capitu traiu ou não traiu é o maior dilema do Brasil
I love to think that if he were alive, he would be getting asked this question during interviews supposed to be about his new release, he'd just roll his eyes, refuse to answer and get annoyed that no one gets how the book is not about that.
OMG I'm so excited to see more brazilian books aroud booktube. Captains of the Sands
by Jorge Amado and Barren Lives by Graciliano Ramos are some of my favorites
Wow! So rare to see a Bootuber recommending Chinese literature! Lu Xun's short stories are often satirical and realistic. He was a fabulous writer when it comes to "Chinese-ness", a sharp observer of humanity, a fearless soul to fight against corruptive nature of certain tranditional Chinese value. I have a great respect for him.
The Story of Stones is my all time favorite, a truly masterpiece. It may look like a family drama, but in essence it is way beyond that. It's hard to describe it in English, or in a few words in general. It's best to be inmersed in those beautiful ryhtm and prose to feel the underlying themes, the beauty and the decay, the true meaning of youth and life.
Also I would recommend the Love in a Fallen City or Half a Lifelong Romance, both written by Elieen Chang. She was an iconic writer in 1940s China. Her stories are always excellent and realistic depiction of love and marriage, and how women's situation were in that period.
I recommend Julio Cortázar, argentinian author. I don't know if there any good translations of his works, though. He has some interesting short stories, and quite a unique writing style in my opinion! I don't think he suits everyone's taste but I think you should look him up and see for yourself!
Love your channel 💕
YAS JULIO CORTÁZAR 🙌🙌🙌 what a king. i don’t know any translations either tho :(
And you should listen to him reading the short story Casa Tomada - it’s just amazing and you can easily find it here on youtube
You MUST read "The Woman from Tantoura: A Palestinian Novel" by Radwa Ashour. It is not as internationally famous as Nagib's works but it is pretty famous in Arabic culture. I think it would introduce new issues rarely talked about in the west so I think it would be a pretty good opportunity to learn about other cultures. Hope you enjoy it and enjoy whatever you read from the Arabic literature.❤❤
Oh my God, Lucy! I can’t believe you’re going to read the Hour of the Star! It’s one of my favourite books ever! I love Clarice Lispector! I see you have a lot of Brazilian fans and I’m definitely one of tem! Keep up with the Brazilian literature, it will surprise you! Try The Alienist by Machado de Assis, it’s really really good. ❤️
While I haven't read Dom Casmurro yet, I have read The Alienist by Machado De Assis, and I loved it! It is a delightful novella that I was able to read it in once sitting.
You are such a sweet person and you inspire and motivate me so much to push through my comfort zone. I read so often and so many books and I'm just getting tired of reading books and not feeling like there was any takeaway from them. Like I'm just reading to increase some random statistical goal. I want to read books that mean something, that teach you something, and that stay with you and have lasting importance. Both you and your channel are things that I am very grateful for. Thank you Lucy.
A tip from a portuguese speaking native: when you have a "c" and a "h", it reads "x", so you say "Maxado" not "Macado" ;) and you should look into portuguese Literature (Portugal):Eça de Queiroz, Almeida Garrett, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Alexandre Herculano, Fernando Pessoa.
Love your videos, and because of your recommendations I have been reading more Classics ;)
It'd be more of a soft "sh" sound! So you would say "Mashado" :) As in "splash" or "shark".
@@karinasdeluca yeah, otherwise it would sound like "macksado"
Yes, mashado!!
@@karinasdeluca even if you say that, people who dont speak portuguese won´t know that sound described this way. And x can have a "ch" sound, look up the word Xaile, the difference is that the sound is at the begining of the word than in the middle. Or the word baixo, ameixa, these have an "x" but is pronunced "ch". So is more easy to say to someone who doesnt speak portuguese to pronunce the "ch" like "x".
@@giuliahupalo oh, so then you pronunce baixo, ameixa, enxaqueca, like "baicko", "ameicka", "enckaqueca" ???
I'm loving the regular uploads, Lucy x
So glad to hear that - I am trying! I hope you'll enjoy my upcoming videos too. x
We appreciate soooo muuuuuch we read all those Brazilians books!!!
when you pulled out The Hour of the Star, when I tell you I SCREAMED!!!! This is my favorite book of ALL TIMES, like oh m GOD, I'm sure you'll love it!!!!!
You have opened my eyes to other books to read. The Chinese books sound good. It's not like I don't have lots of time to invest in the Classics 😊
Hi, i am Brazilian and i love your videos about victorian classics books. My favorite Brazilian classic book is Senhora by José de Alencar.
I just read The Tales of Hoffmann in June! I reviewed it in my June Wrap-Up. Hoffmann also inspired two other pieces of classical art: the ballet The Nutcracker (he wrote the original short story) and the opera Les Contes d'Hoffmann (based on "The Sandman", "Councillor Krespel/The Cremona Violin", and "The Lost Reflection"). It's very meta and strange, but one of my favorite operas. I think that will be the focus of a video next month for my new opera series. Hope you enjoy the stories, too!
Lucy, please consider reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez! He won the Nobel Prize in Literature for that novel, it is a masterpiece and a hallmark of Latin America literature written in the Spanish language. There are some really beautiful editions out there and the translation is always good.
Yes!!! García Márquez is fantastic and that novel in particular is amazing 😊
That would be awesome if she did!😁 I read it LONG ago & don't remember anything. Would love to read it if Lucy & others do like for Hispanic Heritage month or somethibg like that! Ha!
-Pero si me encantó "El Amor En El Tiempo Del Cholera."💗
This one is definitely a masterpiece!
Yes Lucy please!!!!!! You will love it! It’s a masterpiece
Yes lucyyyy do it 💓 🇨🇴
So many great sounding books here!
If you are looking for Japanese classics, you //have// to read The Tale of Genji!! Many consider it to be the oldest novel ever written. It is surprisingly accessible. I also recommend Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata and Masks by Enchi Fumiko.
I’m Lebanese Moroccan and I have to say that I’m glad that you want to read Arab literature, starting with Naguib Mahfouz. His works are taught in many Arab countries as part of our syllabus in Arabic. Palace Walk is the first book in a trilogy that he wrote knows as the Cairo trilogy. Although I wouldn’t say that that’s the best book to start by him. I’d say books that you could potentially start by him are “The Thief and Dogs”, The Karnak Cafe, Cairo Modern and Miramar.
The hour of the star is one of the saddest books I've ever read!! It's beautiful and you should start reading it right now lol. And I'm quite sure that everybody here who is brazilian, just like me, is excited about you having these brazilian classics and each one of us will recommend a better way to begin with, but actually we only wish you enjoy it and have the best time! Hope you like it! :)
LOVED THIS! And the little opening was so cute!
I love that you’re getting all these recommendations because I know it will help me branch out too!
yesss i've been meaning to read more books from around the world
Clarice Linspetor is the the best autor we had here be ready for a poetical language, Portuguese is very poetical it’s beautiful
Wonderful selection of Brazilian books! I've read all of these and if you can recommend one to start with, it's certainly Dom Casmurro. Clarice Lispector is my favorite writer and the story of Macabéa in Hour of the Star is incredible. Lima Barreto is guaranteed fun, especially with that title (which I love).
Backalands is a non-fiction book, reporting a sad and revolting episode that took place in northeastern Brazil. I believe that the first part of the book will be quite boring, as it is a technical account of the geography and climate of the region. The second part has somewhat prejudiced ideas about the "sertanejos", but it gains more interesting outlines in some points, mainly in the beautiful description of the overflow of the cattle and when it starts to deal with Antônio Conselheiro's past. The last part is an accurate and sad account of everything that happened in Canudos.
Hii! I'm from Brazil and it's very exciting to see books from my country around the world. And Machado de Assis' writing is a bit complicated, so I suggest that you start with Dom Casmurro, because it's more easy than the other one.
Children of Gebelawi is one of best Nageeb mafuze book with the most intersting cocept highly recomeded 🤓
Clarice Lispector is a favorite writer of mine. Since you're interested in short stories as well, I would definitely recommend her Complete Stories.
Also, Egyptian: That Smell and Notes from Prison by Son'allah Ibrahim
French: The Lover by Marguerite Duras
American (USA): Giovanni's Room and Another Country by James Baldwin
Korean: Flowers of Mold (short stories) by Ha Seong-nan
NB: I'd call them all classics, but they're definitely published more recently. Of this bunch, I believe Giovanni's Room is the oldest and it was published in the mid-50s. I'm personally obsessed with 20th century literature and never was all that great at following the prompt to the letter.
Great slections! I love Machado De Assis.
Nice video! I might want to read some of these classics
Naguib mahfouz Palace walk is AMAZING
It's the first part of cairo trilogy and ranked first in the list of best 100 Arabic novels of the 20th century
I know it may seem obvious to a reader who wants to enjoy literature, and to be educated to be somewhat impartial ...but I appreciate your approach to reading a range of books with an unbiased approach to 'subject and culture' it says a lot about you character - in that you are diverse
Such a great collection! I would certainly recommend starting with Epitaph of a Small Winner as soon as you get the copy. The style is very accessible
Yay for more diverse classics!! :)
I'm so excited to hear your thoughts on these!
I got excited when I saw the title of this video. 💛💛
The tales of Hoffmann are wonderful!!
Thank you Lucy!
I agree with the comments of Gabriel García Márquez and his beautiful books, but definitely you should read "Battles in the desert" by José Emilio Pacheco, also a Mexican author. It's one of my favorite books, it describes this feeling of nostalgia for life. I love your videos.
Hi Lucy!
You should read Maria by Jorge Isaacs and of course 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The first is a classic of Colombian literature from 1867 and the second is more a modern classic that won de Noble for Literature. Aside from that, you should read books by Mario Vargas Llosa, Julio Cortazar, Carlos Fuentes and Jorge Luis Borges who were the most important writers during the Latin American BOOM decade of the 60s.
Such a lovely video idea. It's something as a literature enthusiast I would like to embrace more of.
So good to see people reading brazilian classics!
Oooh I can't wait to see what you think of these and to get some recommendations! All my classics are very white and British (mainly English)
What an amazing collection! I'm excited for you!! :)
I’m new to your channel and this is the first video I’m watching. Coincidence or not, you’re talking about reading some brazilian literature and I’m from Brazil and I was really, really happy to hear that! I just had to subscribe to your channel! Machado de Assis is one of my favorite authors and Dom Casmurro one of my favorite books! Hope you have fun while reading them and enjoy it as much as we do!
I have read none of the ones you mentioned but definitely interested in a few of them especially like the last 4 you mentioned. Great video!💕
If you enjoy reading autobiographies and if you can find it, I would recommend Sand in My Eyes by Seigniorage Russell Laune. It’s the story of life in Woodward, Oklahoma at the turn of the century. It’s very good.👍
I can recommend THE turkish classic: "Madonna in a Fur Coat" by Sabahattin Ali.
Great story.
dom casmurro is so damn good, I also love the posthumous memoirs of bras cubas, the narrator is so ironic and sarcastic. Both books criticize brazilian elite in the 19th century
The Shahnameh (the epic of persian kings ) by A. Ferdowsi, is a master piece of the 10th century AD, written in an extraordinary beautiful style, full of history, tradición, religion (zurvanism, zoroastrianism, islamism) and culture. An iconic book of old Iran. It is well worth reading it. Im enjoying the book very much!
I hope there's a translation of Machado's short stories in the UK because it's worth it. I hope you enjoy Dom Casmurro and tell us if his wife cheated on him or not because this is the greatest debate to ever exist in Brazilian literature to this day lol
PS.: Clarice's short stories are also brilliant. So, more recs for you! :D
I love to read but have never read the classics. I want to but am kind of intimidated. You however have inspired me to broaden my scope of reading. Thank you so.much for making your videos. You have made this not so intimidating for me. I've made a promise to myself to start reading classics. Thank you again.
Thanks for talking about my beloved Machado de Assis. Cheers from Brazil
Still English language, but some late Victorian and Edwardian Australian classics are Seven little Australians and Snugglepot and Cuddlepie (if you read novels for kids) and My Brilliant Career, a great proto-feminist semi-autobiographical novel about a girl from the bush who wants to be an author. There’s also picnic at hanging rock and a fortunate life which I haven’t gotten to yet. My Brilliant Career and Picnic are also classic Aussie films.
I’m from Brazil and I love Machado de Assis! You should definitely read epitaph of a small winner, it’s fantastic
Love to see so many good recommendations, I'll definitely be picking up a few of these! I would absolutely love to see more people talk about translated literature, there is so much wonderful stuff out there. If you need some more, some early twentieth century authors I dearly love are Sandor Marai (Hungarian), Karel Capek (Czech) and Tarjei Vesaas (Norwegian) ;).
Clarice is a must. I'll be honest and say I don't think Backlands from Euclides is that known? Personally I would have chosen a José de Alencar (wrote about natives) or a Jorge Amado book (he is also a post-modern like Clarice but we had several telenovelas that were adapted from his books). Also you are now gonna have no choice but to dive into Brazilian classics because we do come heavily as a group in the comments hahahaha :D
Euclides da Cunha is such a hard reading!
Another great book written by Machado de Assis is Epitaph of a Small Winner or also translated as Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas. U have to read it.
There are two short stories by Machado de Assis that may change the way you see the world, the first one is "The Devil's church" and the other one is "Father against Mother" both very powerful, but the second one is harder to digest...both masterpieces.
I'm so glad you're reading Naguib Mahfouz. I'm Iraqi and he's my favorite arabic author. Palace Walk is a good place to start. I would also recommend reading Children of the Alley/Children of Gebelawi, it's one of his best novels and the most controversial one. I would love to hear your thoughts on any of them. Happy reading! 💚
Nice haul! Palace Walk is one of my favorite books
Palace walk is great place to start but you have to know that it's the 1st in a trilogy. The story is definitely worth reading.Mahfoudh is that kind of author who makes you live within the book and feel with the characters. He has that simple but still deep and descriptive style. He is one of the best people who represented the human psyche.
wow, a really diverse list here - hope you find some new favourites =) I'm reading Lispector's short stories and so far they're pretty great
I was really impressed by ‘The Hour of the Star’. But I think her short stories are even better. Since you are in a short story vibe 🙂 (the penguin modern classic box has a book that contains 3 great stories by Lispector).
🇧🇷 As a Brazilian I also have some homework to do. I’m reading Machado and Clarisse this summer as I’ve read many English classics and not our own 😞 Penguin just released a new version of Machado’s The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cuba by Flora Thomson which was sold out in one day in the US (even I want to read it)!!! I saw some of her interviews and it seems she did a great work with the translation, as Machado’s style is very particular.
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck is a really good classic about China.
Some Italian classics next time? Manzoni, Ovidio, Pirandello!! :)
I have The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni. Did he write anything else?
@@racheldemain1940 Try with his collection of poems, they're wonderful!
I believe you misspelled Claude McKay in your show notes -- only one 'a.' I haven't read anything by him yet, but his "Home to Harlem" is on my books-to-read list.
Machado is amazing! Dom Casmurro, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas, O alienista, Quincas Borba 🥰
Please make a video when you finish all these books, I'm really curious about what you think about they, especially Dom Casmuro. That was my first classic and I just love Machado de Assis!
omg Dom Casmurro is SOOOO GOOD
I'm brazilian and I've read both Dom Casmurro and The Hour of the Star. They're both great! I personally prefer Clarice's short stories than her novels (this one is a bit hard to get into). I've haven't read Lima Barreto and Euclides da Cunha yet, but I hear great thing about them too. I hope you enjoy them all!
I'm so glad you got so many brazilian books to read! I'm excited to know what your thoughts will be. I love Machado de Assis books and, just to help you with the sound of his name in portuguese, it is said Machado with a "sh" sound. Like in shut up or milk shake.
DOM CASMURRO É MARAVILHOSO!!!!
Hello, Lucy! I believe you may not find Backlands by Euclides da Cunha a good book to start with, especially because of the first part, which is a detailled description of the lands where the action takes place. But anyway, it is a masterpiece I hope you will enjoy reading!
I got myself interested in most of the books you mentioned, especially the Chinese ones
A hora da Estrela de Clarice Lispector é muito bom! Ela só tem obra-prima 😍
Such a great video. I loved everyting about this video🖤
I've read that Lu Xun collection, of which I think I liked the third book the best cos it revisits older Chinese legends. I'm not really up on my Chinese history so I didn't connect so much with the contemporary stories in his first two books (as you were saying about not getting cultural references). But definitely worth reading.
I tried reading Story of the Stone once, and just couldn't get past the first few pages with Taoist and Buddhist characters called Vanitas, Mysterioso and Impervioso. ARGH. I will try again one day but I'm not in a great hurry.
I read that Clarice Lispector book and kind of hated it.
Mahfouz had a really long (1930s-2000s) and diverse career. The only one of his books I've read is Akhenaten Dweller in Truth, which I liked. I've accrued quite a few of his other books, just need to get around to actually reading them.
Claude McKay seems to have been an interesting figure from what I read about him on Wiki. Going to add him to my to-read list. I want to read more Harlem Renaissance stuff after reading Nella Larsen's books last year.
I second all the recommendations for One Hundred Years of Solitude other commenters have made.
Thanks for the heads-up on Welsh Women's Classics. Recommendation re Victorian autobiographies - "The Autobiographical Writings of John Clare", as it's a rare example of the voice of someone from a very poor background at that time.
Fascinating
you need to read "The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas"
You should definitely read Flora Thomson-DeVeaux’s new translation of The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas. I know her personally and I am positive she did an excellent job in translating Machado de Assis’s spirit, while also adding some notes to help English speakers to understand 19th century Rio de Janeiro.
I loved to see your interest in Brazilian literature! We have amazing writers and books. But I am not sure about your selection. All of them are classics and very good books, but BACKLANDS is too much arid for a non-brazilian, I think. Clarice is fantastic, but a little bit intimista, and not so easy to read. Machado and Barreto are the best ones for you to start. Maybe in the future you should try Jorge Amado or Érico Veríssimo - two of our best ones! Great vídeo!
I'm reading Malorys king Arthur. The middle English was hard at first but am tuned in now. Going to read the thousand and one nights.
Whats your favourite Dickens? Mine is David Copperfeild.
I think Hoffman wrote the Nutcracker.
Dom Casmurro 🥰
‘The Time Regulation Institute’ (1954) by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
Translated to English in 2014, over 50 years after its publication in Turkey, The Time Regulation Institute is a comic masterpiece from the master of Turkish Modernism. Couched in satire, Tanpınar’s novel is a critique of Turkey’s haphazard adaptation to Western modernisation; in it, we follow an offbeat set of characters as they attempt to ensure all the clocks in the country are set to Western time. While Tanpınar is also known for his essays and poetry, it is for his novels that he is most celebrated; the Istanbul-born author has been hailed by colleague Orhan Pamuk (Nobel winning author that I also recommend, along with Elif Shafak) as the greatest Turkish novelist of the 20th century.
Unfortunately I couldn't find many English translations of an earlier works but this one is also amazing: www.eadeverell.com/forreaders/forbidden-love/
Interesting reading list you have there, Lucy - should see you through whilst it's too stupid hot to sleep, hopefully. Mildly amused that you like books with a Lucy in them, because that immediately suggests Dracula, and that didn't work out too well. Anyway ... haven't read any of those, but how about some John Cowper Powys to flesh out the Welsh selection? Darned if I know what to make of him.