So nice of you both to help this generation get into real books. Yes, your tips are incredibly valuable to “younger” readers. Once read a book of Dostoevsky your mind will be opened to a whole new level of understanding the world around. Thank you for this video.
The best introduction to this utter masterpiece I have ever seen: I'm grateful that you recorded this, for it indeed will generate excitement for the text.
Hello! I'm from Russia and I want to thank you for such an interesting video. Now I am already finishing reading this masterpiece and I don’t even want to think about how I will live on. Dostoevsky is an absolute genius. For me, "At Tikhon's" became the most touching and turning point in the novel. In my opinion, it is in this chapter that Stavrogin is sincere as never before. For me, it opened up from a very unexpected side after a few lines that just killed me and I cried ... "Demons" - a novel for all time. Relevant to this day💔
I am genuinely estatic that i just found this channel. This is the first video I've watched from you guys but i feel like im gonna end up watching all of your "before you read" videos. (Please make more!) For ages I've wanted to have more context for books before i read them, but thats incredibly hard to do without running into spoilers. So thank you from the bottom of my heart, really. Content like this can elevate the act of reading.
Oh, this is such perfect timing! I was planning on rereading this last August when I moved, and have put it off, and just recently decided to pick it up again. I remember enough of the book that spoilers wont mean anything--and I see the first conversation just went up! 😮
@@yogendrakapali6936 yes, it's just different translation of the title, but the book is the same. Personally, I think the title "Demons" is better, though not perfect, because it's closer to the original meaning of the word «Бѣсы» and it's modern spelling «Бесы».
I'm about to get into Demons after a month break of Dostoy's works. Finished some of his other bigger novels, including TBK, because I read on reddit that this is going to be harder to read. Glad that you mentioned information is withheld from the reader at the start. That's definitely going to stop me from rereading earlier chapters (fruitlessly) like I do for his other books
This really helped me decide which one to pick up first ' The Brothers Karamazov' or 'Demons' and why I should dedicate this year to reading Dostoyvsky's work.
I am so glad to find this channel. I fell in love with Faulkner last year and it was invaluable to me to get CXC's perspective. Now, I am tackling Dostoevsky with trepidation, but I believe you guys can really help as I track the discussions chapter by chapter. And to think I went decades without reading for enjoyment...
this actually helped me pick the book up again after a whole year of completely giving up. thank you !!! glad to see my oppinions are not only mine :))))))
Thanks for the thorough introduction. This certainly made me excited to read the book! A bit intimidated, this would be my first intro to Dostoevsky. I've always wanted to read his work but put it off, maybe feeling like I'm not ready yet, or something. But it sounds brilliant so I might as well just dive in.
I'm going to have to read it again, (probably before i watch the rest of your video even but ill come back to it) it's the only one of his works that I didn't really comprehend, I got the vividness of the different character-types and the implication of a group tendency towards nihilism, but not much else, I even wondered if some of the French was left out of that edition and that's why I didn't track with it the same, but it could just be that it's meant to nebulous and disorderly. I went to order Pevear and Volokhonskys trans but I wasn't able to get it for some reason..I might just stick with Garnet's.
My current reading. Just completed the first part and crept into dark and gloomy beginning of the 'night' of second. Honestly saying, before picking up the book I searched for this 'before you read' video on your channel. Ha ha ha. Your content is good and I know it will be very helpful to many readers, particularly for such book, if the y'll go through this video. Waiting for your indepth analysis. Thank you!
I heard an author talk about the flip side of it recently and it was a very interesting concept. He called it “reader generosity” and how does an author help foster it.
If you look at his works the way you do Tarantino's movies, as in they all take place in the same universe, you can connect this book to Crime and Punishment. Where that was a look at what happens when someone accepts the teachings of Nietzsche personally, this book looks at what happens to society when it embraces nihilism as a whole. And if you look at it holistically like that, you can see that this is an Orthodox Christian prophetic work on what will happen in Germany and Europe in the 1930s.
Katz, in my opinon is to date, the best dostoevsky translator for native english speakers. Pevear gets alot of hype for some reason, and they get killer publishing deals, (which is why i think there is alot of propaganda supporting their work), but if you are a russian lit enthusiest like me, you can't help but to question how the hell pevear didnt get checked up and down. its as if they didnt translate to impress eager readers, but to impress people within their own field. they appeal more to russians who know english, rather than english people who dont know russian at all. Highly dissapointed with both dostoevsky's work and tolstoy. the only author i think they did an okay job at was Master and Marg.
Having just finished this book I wonder if anyone else agrees that the biggest emotional punch, and the most haunting chapter in the book, comes in the censored chapter that isn't actually in the main body of the novel.
I take your point about reading that chapter in the sequence that Dostoevsky intended (ie as Chapter 9) but I'll just say that reading it once I'd completed the main novel, as an appendix in my Penguin version, was a total sucker punch that caused me to reappraise everything about the character Stavrogin and all his actions throughout the book that are otherwise inexplicable until you read that chapter. I agree with you that this is a book that will probably haunt me for months. And I also agree the first part of the book is a trial to get through but it is worth persevering with.
@@gregoneill990At Tikhon’s is a key to the entire book, however, if you understand what each character represents in the novel, even without this chapter you would get it. It can be “inexplicable” only if you are not knowledgeable about history of 18-19th century history of Russia and Europe.
Very different stories but not. On the surface, one is political and social and the other is more eternal and religious. Underneath that both are incredibly deep and touch on some very deep elements of life. They are Akira in the background, yes.
Love you guys! Dostoyevsky is probably my favorite author and I never got around to Demons. Thank you both for your hard work and in-depth analysis! Smart dudes!
The only issues I have so far is the amount of french that Stepan decides he needs to speak to sound intelligent. It’s so goddamn annoying. (It wouldn’t be if I wasn’t stupid and could speak french)
😈 off topic, but I wanted you all to get the credit. I was watching the Mel Brooks’ movie The Producers which I have seen countless times over the years, and Zero Mostel whispers behind his hand to us the audience about Gene Wilder, “Prince Mishkin over there.” I got the joke only because of watching your videos! I am so frustrated that I can’t use it because no one would understand! Joyce, Tolstoy, and Dostoyevsky in the first 20 minutes. What a movie!
@@ydagan2400 I’ve seen both spellings used but when in reference to the movie they used Mishkin. I saw one source that said Mishkin was the Russian Jewish version of the name which is consistent with Mel Brooks using that spelling. How interesting!
@@DebMcDonald oh, thanks for the information, I didn't know there was more than one variation. Indeed, the Jewish accent turns "y" into "i" But now it's kinda funny, because that one letter changes the derivative word of the surname - "Myshkin" comes from "mouse", "Mishkin" from "little bear". And the "mouse" surname symbolically suits such a humble person as the prince, but the other, well... looks like a word play :)
@@ydagan2400 I’m sure Mel Brooks intended for the meaning to be, “Look at the idiot (mouse) over there.” because Leo Bloom (another inside joke from James Joyce’s Ulysses) was a naive character. Nothing of a bear about him. My Russian vocabulary is up to ten words now but none of them go together!
Good intro to an extremely difficult read for even the best of readers. The 2017 Thomas Beyer abridged version of The Possessed, is probably the easiest to read. It is half in length but I believe that would help readers stick with it, even for purists who could then read the original later after getting a working knowledge of the characters and story. He's considered an expert on and has taught Dostoevsky for about 45 years in Vermont.
Hi, I am starting Devils next (translated by Constance Garnett). And I got upset about the chapter At Tikhon's, it is not in the book as a chapter 9 in book 2 or in the appendix!. Should I read it it from online when when I finish book 2 chapter 8?
That chapter is absolutely pivotal to the book and in my opinion, reading the Garnett translation would be a complete waste of time as she never translated that chapter. Also, because of her lack of understanding, she occasionally mistranslated or skipped the parts she didn't understand. The best and most helpful translation is by Professor Robert Maguire for Penguin Classics, because of all the additional supplementary material, including a complete character list.
Started and finished "Demons" this month and finished the Holy Bible this month (version NASB, translated from Hebrew straight into English). FAVORITE AUTHORS 1st) Fyodor Dostoevsky 1) “The Insulted and Humiliated” by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4) "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 19) "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 30) "Demons" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 65) "My Uncle's Dream" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 80) "The Heavenly Christmas Tree" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 113) "Poor Folk" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 130) "The Gentle Spirit" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 141) "The Gambler" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 149) "White Nights" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 173) "Netochka Nezvanova" (nameless nobody) by Fyodor Dostoevsky 2nd) Leo Tolstoy 3) "Resurrection" by Leo Tolstoy 9) "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy 16) “Childhood, Boyhood” by Leo Tolstoy 62) "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy 91) "A Confession" by Leo Tolstoy 3rd) Ivan Turgenev 5) "Fathers and Sons" by Ivan Turgenev 11) "Smoke" by Ivan Turgenev 23) "Virgin Soil" by Ivan Turgenev 41) "Torrents of Spring" by Ivan Turgenev 64) "First Love" by Ivan Turgenev 101) "Acia" by Ivan Turgenev 107) "The Watch" by Ivan Turgenev 132) "Rudin" by Ivan Turgenev 141) "On the Eve" by Ivan Turgenev 152) "Home of the Gentry" by Ivan Turgenev 172) "Clara Militch" by Ivan Turgenev 177) "The Inn" by Ivan Turgenev 4th) James A. Michener 12) "Chesapeake" by James A. Michener 13) "Poland" by James A. Michener 36) "Caribbean" by James A. Michener 37) "Hawaii" by James A. Michener 197) “Mexico” by James A. Michener 5th) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 10) "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 28) "Cancer Ward" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 44) "In the First Circle" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 78) "The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: an Experiment in Literary Investigation" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Hard to choose. Lots of people like Crime and Punishment for its slow suspense and psychology. Others really like The Bros Karamazov because of its exploration of morality. It’s good to maybe check out a spoiler free pitch of each and see which one is most intriguing for you
I love everything about this except your recommendation of Piper's dated and extremely biased book. He was a foreign relations adviser to Reagan in the '80s and a vehement anti-communist. There are a lot better options for learning about the history of tsarist Russia's collapse.
@@TheCodeXCantina I read enough of it. Pipes makes his bias clear within the first few chapters. He seems to have a real hate-on for intellectuals in general (at least of the leftist variety). It all becomes too much. This is not how I like to consume my history. A real disappointment given the wealth of knowledge and info it contains. I’d recommend Sheila Fitzgerald as a better, more objective starting point.
I'm in part one of this book and found your video as impetus to continue on. You said the first part was confusing. This piece makes me think that I don't know how to read anymore. "this ain't no disco, or CBGB's, this ain't no fooling around." D Byrne
😈 Been procrastinating on this book for months. I bought the M. R. Katz version from Oxford U. Press. It's the first real paper book I've picked up since years 😅 So I might have to get used to flipping pages again, but I think I'll manage... Thank you for this 'back cover'! Really insightful!
This channel is so underrated. Thank you❤
Thank you too!
I read this when I was very young. I'm 77 now and dedicated to re-reading - and understanding - this book before I die.
I believe in you!
How was the book man!🎉
This is a great novel, I'm on page 200 now. Have patience with the first 100, it pays off latter on.
So nice of you both to help this generation get into real books. Yes, your tips are incredibly valuable to “younger” readers. Once read a book of Dostoevsky your mind will be opened to a whole new level of understanding the world around. Thank you for this video.
The best introduction to this utter masterpiece I have ever seen: I'm grateful that you recorded this, for it indeed will generate excitement for the text.
Thanks for the kind words! The book really is a masterpiece!
Hello! I'm from Russia and I want to thank you for such an interesting video. Now I am already finishing reading this masterpiece and I don’t even want to think about how I will live on. Dostoevsky is an absolute genius. For me, "At Tikhon's" became the most touching and turning point in the novel. In my opinion, it is in this chapter that Stavrogin is sincere as never before. For me, it opened up from a very unexpected side after a few lines that just killed me and I cried ... "Demons" - a novel for all time. Relevant to this day💔
Thanks so much for sharing
Thanks for taking time to present this work without spoiling the story :) 😈
My pleasure! Thanks for the feedback
I am genuinely estatic that i just found this channel. This is the first video I've watched from you guys but i feel like im gonna end up watching all of your "before you read" videos. (Please make more!)
For ages I've wanted to have more context for books before i read them, but thats incredibly hard to do without running into spoilers. So thank you from the bottom of my heart, really. Content like this can elevate the act of reading.
Another masterpiece in the books. What’s the next Dostoevsky for us to start?
Notes from the Underground should be next 👍
Oh, this is such perfect timing! I was planning on rereading this last August when I moved, and have put it off, and just recently decided to pick it up again. I remember enough of the book that spoilers wont mean anything--and I see the first conversation just went up! 😮
Exciting! I hadn’t read it when we had read The Idiot last year and I couldn’t believe how much I liked Demons. I put it up there with Bros K
Demons is my favorite book of my Favorite Author.
@@JustStop19 help me ..demons and devil r same book of writer fydor dostoevsky?
@@yogendrakapali6936 yes, it's just different translation of the title, but the book is the same. Personally, I think the title "Demons" is better, though not perfect, because it's closer to the original meaning of the word «Бѣсы» and it's modern spelling «Бесы».
I'm about to get into Demons after a month break of Dostoy's works. Finished some of his other bigger novels, including TBK, because I read on reddit that this is going to be harder to read. Glad that you mentioned information is withheld from the reader at the start. That's definitely going to stop me from rereading earlier chapters (fruitlessly) like I do for his other books
Gotta watch out for Stroganoff
Made me hungry!
@@TheNerdyNarrative 😂😂😂
“ strokin off “ 💀✊🍆
Stavrogin?
He's a scum
Maybe the greatest of political novels.
Indeed!
This really helped me decide which one to pick up first ' The Brothers Karamazov' or 'Demons' and why I should dedicate this year to reading Dostoyvsky's work.
I am so glad to find this channel. I fell in love with Faulkner last year and it was invaluable to me to get CXC's perspective. Now, I am tackling Dostoevsky with trepidation, but I believe you guys can really help as I track the discussions chapter by chapter. And to think I went decades without reading for enjoyment...
Thumbs up! You guys are inspiring me to tackle Demons again. It's been 50 years since the last reading.
Yesss! I hope you enjoy it
this actually helped me pick the book up again after a whole year of completely giving up. thank you !!! glad to see my oppinions are not only mine :))))))
I hope you enjoy it this round!
Brothers Karamazov is indeed his magnum opus because it's the greatest work of literary fiction of all time.
Thank you both!
I have always wanted to read "Demons" I am so glad to have found your video. I will definitely start to read the novel.
SO good guys. Thank you for this review. I've decided to read this novel thanks to your help!
Hope you enjoy it!
Thanks for the thorough introduction. This certainly made me excited to read the book! A bit intimidated, this would be my first intro to Dostoevsky. I've always wanted to read his work but put it off, maybe feeling like I'm not ready yet, or something. But it sounds brilliant so I might as well just dive in.
I hope you like it! Many people have started with Crime and Punishment and found it a great introduction to his work!
Thank you for this video! Great explanation.
Thank you for the spectacular insights!
I'm going to have to read it again, (probably before i watch the rest of your video even but ill come back to it) it's the only one of his works that I didn't really comprehend, I got the vividness of the different character-types and the implication of a group tendency towards nihilism, but not much else, I even wondered if some of the French was left out of that edition and that's why I didn't track with it the same, but it could just be that it's meant to nebulous and disorderly. I went to order Pevear and Volokhonskys trans but I wasn't able to get it for some reason..I might just stick with Garnet's.
OKC OK here. Excellent!!! Thanks. 🥀🕊️🥀
My current reading. Just completed the first part and crept into dark and gloomy beginning of the 'night' of second.
Honestly saying, before picking up the book I searched for this 'before you read' video on your channel. Ha ha ha. Your content is good and I know it will be very helpful to many readers, particularly for such book, if the y'll go through this video.
Waiting for your indepth analysis. Thank you!
Oh man! The feelings when two opened in that room are so exciting! I hope you enjoy!
@@TheCodeXCantina yeah brother!
the editing!!! Trust your author indeed. Thats such a good way of saying it. This was incredible!
I heard an author talk about the flip side of it recently and it was a very interesting concept. He called it “reader generosity” and how does an author help foster it.
If you look at his works the way you do Tarantino's movies, as in they all take place in the same universe, you can connect this book to Crime and Punishment.
Where that was a look at what happens when someone accepts the teachings of Nietzsche personally, this book looks at what happens to society when it embraces nihilism as a whole. And if you look at it holistically like that, you can see that this is an Orthodox Christian prophetic work on what will happen in Germany and Europe in the 1930s.
don't read it if you are a liberal democrat 😂😂😂
Love y'all thank you so much
Thanks for the kind words!
Thanks
Thank you so much! We really appreciate it
Thanks very much ❤🎉
Robert C Bauer, "The Kid Gallagher Story " Bypassed, overlooked, misplaced, oh well. Best book I ever read. Please make into a movie.
People who judge a book by the first 10-20 pages complaining that it’s too confusing, is the worst kind of reader. Just sayin
Viva Dostoevsky!
Woo
Katz, in my opinon is to date, the best dostoevsky translator for native english speakers. Pevear gets alot of hype for some reason, and they get killer publishing deals, (which is why i think there is alot of propaganda supporting their work), but if you are a russian lit enthusiest like me, you can't help but to question how the hell pevear didnt get checked up and down. its as if they didnt translate to impress eager readers, but to impress people within their own field. they appeal more to russians who know english, rather than english people who dont know russian at all. Highly dissapointed with both dostoevsky's work and tolstoy. the only author i think they did an okay job at was Master and Marg.
❤
😈👹 saludos desde Caracas Venezuela. Good job!
Pleasure to meet you
😊 👏
Having just finished this book I wonder if anyone else agrees that the biggest emotional punch, and the most haunting chapter in the book, comes in the censored chapter that isn't actually in the main body of the novel.
Yeeeeep
I take your point about reading that chapter in the sequence that Dostoevsky intended (ie as Chapter 9) but I'll just say that reading it once I'd completed the main novel, as an appendix in my Penguin version, was a total sucker punch that caused me to reappraise everything about the character Stavrogin and all his actions throughout the book that are otherwise inexplicable until you read that chapter. I agree with you that this is a book that will probably haunt me for months. And I also agree the first part of the book is a trial to get through but it is worth persevering with.
@@gregoneill990At Tikhon’s is a key to the entire book, however, if you understand what each character represents in the novel, even without this chapter you would get it. It can be “inexplicable” only if you are not knowledgeable about history of 18-19th century history of Russia and Europe.
Is there a record of Nietzsche reading any Dostoyevsky?
He writes about it in Twilight of the Idols
insert devil emogi 🙂
The question is which do I read first? This, or The Brothers Karamazov?
A very hard question! For me I find Bros K as being easier to recommend to most
This is very intriguing, makes me want to read it next, maybe even before the brothers Karamazov
And, are those Akira comics in the background? 👀
Very different stories but not. On the surface, one is political and social and the other is more eternal and religious. Underneath that both are incredibly deep and touch on some very deep elements of life. They are Akira in the background, yes.
Love you guys! Dostoyevsky is probably my favorite author and I never got around to Demons. Thank you both for your hard work and in-depth analysis! Smart dudes!
Thanks for the kind words. 🙏
The only issues I have so far is the amount of french that Stepan decides he needs to speak to sound intelligent. It’s so goddamn annoying. (It wouldn’t be if I wasn’t stupid and could speak french)
😂
Is it true this book talks about pikes letter to mazzini about 3 wars for freedom?
This video came half-a-Demons-copy late. Still gonna watch it tho! Better late than never.
Nice!
спасибо за видео.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
😈 off topic, but I wanted you all to get the credit. I was watching the Mel Brooks’ movie The Producers which I have seen countless times over the years, and Zero Mostel whispers behind his hand to us the audience about Gene Wilder, “Prince Mishkin over there.” I got the joke only because of watching your videos! I am so frustrated that I can’t use it because no one would understand! Joyce, Tolstoy, and Dostoyevsky in the first 20 minutes. What a movie!
Ha! That’s great!
Isn't the prince actually called Myshkin
@@ydagan2400 I’ve seen both spellings used but when in reference to the movie they used Mishkin. I saw one source that said Mishkin was the Russian Jewish version of the name which is consistent with Mel Brooks using that spelling. How interesting!
@@DebMcDonald oh, thanks for the information, I didn't know there was more than one variation. Indeed, the Jewish accent turns "y" into "i"
But now it's kinda funny, because that one letter changes the derivative word of the surname - "Myshkin" comes from "mouse", "Mishkin" from "little bear". And the "mouse" surname symbolically suits such a humble person as the prince, but the other, well... looks like a word play :)
@@ydagan2400 I’m sure Mel Brooks intended for the meaning to be, “Look at the idiot (mouse) over there.” because Leo Bloom (another inside joke from James Joyce’s Ulysses) was a naive character. Nothing of a bear about him. My Russian vocabulary is up to ten words now but none of them go together!
Dasvidaniya
😈
Good intro to an extremely difficult read for even the best of readers. The 2017 Thomas Beyer abridged version of The Possessed, is probably the easiest to read. It is half in length but I believe that would help readers stick with it, even for purists who could then read the original later after getting a working knowledge of the characters and story. He's considered an expert on and has taught Dostoevsky for about 45 years in Vermont.
Hi, I am starting Devils next (translated by Constance Garnett). And I got upset about the chapter At Tikhon's, it is not in the book as a chapter 9 in book 2 or in the appendix!. Should I read it it from online when when I finish book 2 chapter 8?
In my opinion, I believe you should.
That chapter is absolutely pivotal to the book and in my opinion, reading the Garnett translation would be a complete waste of time as she never translated that chapter. Also, because of her lack of understanding, she occasionally mistranslated or skipped the parts she didn't understand. The best and most helpful translation is by Professor Robert Maguire for Penguin Classics, because of all the additional supplementary material, including a complete character list.
Thanks Guys 😇
Stroganoff! ❤😅😂
It's not Stravogin, it's S T A V R o G I N.
👿
Nice video :)
Thanks!
👻
Started and finished "Demons" this month and finished the Holy Bible this month (version NASB, translated from Hebrew straight into English).
FAVORITE AUTHORS
1st) Fyodor Dostoevsky
1) “The Insulted and Humiliated” by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4) "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
19) "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
30) "Demons" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
65) "My Uncle's Dream" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
80) "The Heavenly Christmas Tree" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
113) "Poor Folk" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
130) "The Gentle Spirit" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
141) "The Gambler" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
149) "White Nights" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
173) "Netochka Nezvanova" (nameless nobody) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
2nd) Leo Tolstoy
3) "Resurrection" by Leo Tolstoy
9) "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy
16) “Childhood, Boyhood” by Leo Tolstoy
62) "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
91) "A Confession" by Leo Tolstoy
3rd) Ivan Turgenev
5) "Fathers and Sons" by Ivan Turgenev
11) "Smoke" by Ivan Turgenev
23) "Virgin Soil" by Ivan Turgenev
41) "Torrents of Spring" by Ivan Turgenev
64) "First Love" by Ivan Turgenev
101) "Acia" by Ivan Turgenev
107) "The Watch" by Ivan Turgenev
132) "Rudin" by Ivan Turgenev
141) "On the Eve" by Ivan Turgenev
152) "Home of the Gentry" by Ivan Turgenev
172) "Clara Militch" by Ivan Turgenev
177) "The Inn" by Ivan Turgenev
4th) James A. Michener
12) "Chesapeake" by James A. Michener
13) "Poland" by James A. Michener
36) "Caribbean" by James A. Michener
37) "Hawaii" by James A. Michener
197) “Mexico” by James A. Michener
5th) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
10) "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
28) "Cancer Ward" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
44) "In the First Circle" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
78) "The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: an Experiment in Literary Investigation" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
👹
👺
😈😈😈
I read demons for the plot:
the plot:
very hot and scrumbydelicious homicidal and homosexual skrunky poor lil' meow meows russians
👹👺
комментарий в поддержку продвижения ролика.
Thanks for watching!
Demons Playlist: ruclips.net/video/nYQmMTjnQKw/видео.html
Support us: www.patreon.com/thecodexcantina
Great video for me as a beginner in his books. Which one should I read first?
Hard to choose. Lots of people like Crime and Punishment for its slow suspense and psychology. Others really like The Bros Karamazov because of its exploration of morality. It’s good to maybe check out a spoiler free pitch of each and see which one is most intriguing for you
I love everything about this except your recommendation of Piper's dated and extremely biased book. He was a foreign relations adviser to Reagan in the '80s and a vehement anti-communist. There are a lot better options for learning about the history of tsarist Russia's collapse.
Thanks. Did we recommend that book or just reference some data in it?
@@TheCodeXCantina I read enough of it. Pipes makes his bias clear within the first few chapters. He seems to have a real hate-on for intellectuals in general (at least of the leftist variety). It all becomes too much. This is not how I like to consume my history. A real disappointment given the wealth of knowledge and info it contains. I’d recommend Sheila Fitzgerald as a better, more objective starting point.
That microphone,,,,, looks like you,re growing a beard for Xmas,,,,, 130 shopping days left,,,,,, anyway love your podcast and Fyodor 😂❤
❤
😈
👹
😈😈😈
I'm in part one of this book and found your video as impetus to continue on. You said the first part was confusing. This piece makes me think that I don't know how to read anymore. "this ain't no disco, or CBGB's, this ain't no fooling around." D Byrne
Awesome orientation. I was curious about Demons, heard a lot of different opinions about it. Think I'll give it a try. Thanks!
👹here for dostoevsky 👹
😈 Been procrastinating on this book for months. I bought the M. R. Katz version from Oxford U. Press.
It's the first real paper book I've picked up since years 😅
So I might have to get used to flipping pages again, but I think I'll manage...
Thank you for this 'back cover'! Really insightful!
Супер 👍👍
😈
👹
👹
👍
😈😈😈
Best!
👹