As a Turkish reader, I will recommend you to read Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Buket Uzuner, Sabahattin Ali and Fakir Baykurt also🙂 And in poetry Nazım Hikmet and Edip Cansever are my favourites.
No wayyy! I was not expecting my beautiful Albania to be the first one!! I have been watching your channel for ages! Thank you for talking about the great Kadare 😊
I am profoundly grateful for your channel. Watching your videos I discovered the greatness and depth of some universal creations of literature that I ignored or couldn't perceive. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your helpful and professional endeavour. You give me the chance to understand better the world and the human's torment. I am a little disappointed because you skipped some authors from the Romanian literature but may be I am not aware of your 'criteria'.
_Pan Tadeusz_ is not actually set in modern-day Lithuania but in modern-day Belarus, which was part of the historical Grand Dutchy of Lithuania, and, in turn, of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Also, the main (titular) character - Tadeusz Soplica - is a young nobleman but not a count (as you said). I found this little mistake particularly weird because there is a character in _Pan Tadeusz_ who is a young count and is referred to simply as the Count (Hrabia). Speaking about Belarus, the name of the country does not mean "White Russia" but White Rus' (or "Ruthenia"). Although Mickiewicz himself was Polish-speaking and wrote in Polish, he wrote some nice things about the Belarusian language: "The Belarusian language, which is also called Ruthenian or Lithuanian-Rusian [note the single 's' as it refers to Rus, not Russia], is spoken by about ten million people. It is a rich and pure dialect that originated a long time ago and is excellently developed. During the period of Lithuania's independence, the grand dukes used it for their correspondence. The Lithuanian Statute is written in this language, the least changed of all Slavic languages and the most harmonious." Source: Pisma Adama Mickiewicza, Paris, 1860. Vol. 10: Cours de littérature slave, IV As for modern Belarusian literature, I've heard good things about the works of Alhierd Bacharevič, particularly "Alindarka’s Children" which has an interesting English translation, utilising some Scottish English and Scots.
Any novel by Knut Hamsun will be rewarding to read, since there's not one novel in his authorship which isn't of the highest quality of literature. Being master of language he has no superfluous words. This mastery may of course be lost in translation, but since he's also the master of storytelling, a reader who isn't Norwegian/Danish will see this and appreciate it, I suppose. (By the way, I was surprised that you jumped from Gogol directly to the modern novelists without even mentioning Bulgakov, "The Heart of a Dog", or at least "The Master and Margarita".)
The scope of your macroscopic analyses always impress me so much. Lovely to know its possible to have even read this much in one life time. What would your collective read time even be? Fiction beast really is an apt name. What kind of person does one even turn into after having read so much
Liking and commenting for the sake of the algorithm. Also, as an English teacher, rest assured that I'm going to share your videos with my students. Thanks for all your hard work.
Great and educational channel :) What is your opinion on "The Return of Filip Latinovicz" and "Cyclops"? Maybe it would be interesting if you did more videos about the literature of "smaller nations". Greetings from Croatia!
For me, the best German write is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and no other German writer comes close. Either "The Sorrows of Young Werther" or Faust part 1 and Faust part 2.
for belgium author check it out Marguerite Yourcenar memoirs of hadrian, one of the greatest european novels of the XXI century, deeply psychological and poetic.
Thank You very much by mentioning Fernando Pessoa! He is in my opinion the greatest poet of all time and as Freud said: “everywhere I go, a poet was there before”.
I just finished Don Quixote and at first I was like WTF did I just read? Then I got into a fight with my husband and he blurted out”I don’t care about your stupid books.” Now I can’t stop thinking about it. Is our hero brilliant or not? Thanks for your videos, they always cheer me up❤
@@kdot78 20 years of marriage and sometimes hubby just wants to vent. I’ve read enough history, and philosophy to get a little too analytical. It worked itself out. Once he expressed his feelings then I expressed mine. “ then don’t complain.” 😊. I can’t put all the blame on him. Living with me is like living with Dale Carnegie ❤️
Don’t know why people always characterise Proust as a melancholic writer, a vast part of his novel is more social satire or observations. Guess the ‘melancholic parts’ are just used to connect the social scenes. À la recherche is actually a funny book, full of brilliant observations and dialogues, and Proust always bursted into laughter when reading it to his close friends. Also I don’t know if I have misunderstood the Crime and Punishment completely, but I don’t think the main character was redeemed in the end. I am still a beginner in Russian literature, don’t quite get it. For Austrian literature, Zweig, Schnitzler and Roth are far more accessible than Musil. I have not met many people who have finished der Mann ohne Eigenschaften, but those who have do praise it as a masterpiece. I definitely recommend Joseph Roth’s Radetzkymarsch, read it on two afternoons in Vienna and for me it really captures the now forever lost old Austria. Writers from Bohemia like Rilke and Stifter are also great. Old Austria’s favourite Grilleparzer is also brilliant, now almost nobody reads him. In fact Austrian literature is one of the greatest traditions in Europe, but largely forgotten because of the collapse of the Austrian Empire. I agree that Calvino is a great writer, but personally I prefer Manzoni, guess my taste is more classical. For the Vatican city, obviously the only things it produces now are encyclicals, but if you consider the historical Papal State then there are loads of great writers in Romanesque, Latin, and Tuscan, including Leopardi who comes from the Marche which were part of the Papal State. More closely related to the Papal court you may name perhaps Pietro Bembo, who writes in both Tuscan and Latin. And why not read some of the Papal encyclicals and letters? I personally find Pius IX’s writings where he laments the ‘fall of Rome’ (Breccia della Porta Pia, when the Italians took over Rome) and the closures of churches and monasteries quite interesting. The popes become interesting when they don’t talk about religion. Pope Pius II’s memoir, written in Latin, is also a unique piece of Renaissance literature. I have read like two volumes, but couldn’t find the modern edition for other volumes. It is written in a fairly simple language, less intimate and more structured than Augustine, where the pope discusses his political calculations, religious festivals, and his ideal Renaissance palace. For me it is definitely more exciting and diverse than any of your celebrated French authors of memoirs. It is also continuous prose (instead of diary or chronicle) like ancient historians. The pope has also written so many other things, and even a novel (though I don’t think it is very good). Definitely recommend if you can find modern bilingual editions (he’s hardly read by anyone nowadays except scholars of Renaissance history and literature).
Hey FB. Great video as always. Discussing Italy I thought you might mention The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. I read it a few years back and liked it a lot. For Italy I always think of it and Dante. And Pizza.
Yes, Leopard is a great shout. I wonder if it was written after (1958) Calvino's Baron in the Trees (1957). the only connection I see that leopards are the only cat species that mostly live in trees. It's random, I know.
"The Betrothed" by Alessandro Manzoni, a XIX century historical novel set in the XVII century IS the national novel of Italy which every student must read at school.
The best Welsh novel I've read is "How Green was my Valley" by Richard Llewellyn which is about a mining village falling apart and it was turned into a classical movie too. For a classical Welsh novel go with "The History of the Kings of Britain" by Geoffrey of Monmouth which is the first major King Arthur book. "The Mabiogion" is less of a novel and more of a collection of ancient Welsh stories (a few King Arthur tails but not the major one).
Thanks for this video! I would like to add the comeback player of Austrian literature Stefan Zweig, both for his fiction and nonfiction. Plus, the under appreciated Arthur Schnitzler. The Exemplary Stories by Cervantes are great warm up to meeting the Don.
Decent enough vid but you should have mentioned Karel Čapek or Bohumil Hrabal for Czechia. Way more interesting of a read for the modern reader than a generic novel that would be of no interest to anyone not Czech (and even for many people who are Czech) while Hrabal and Capek's books teem with interesting ideas and characters. It is amusing that you should mention The Man Without Qualities for Austria in the same vid because that book is wholly inaccessible compared with something like The Grandmother, and those not already predisposed to reading something like should never pick it up even for a lark. Perhaps you should have mentioned Stefan Zweig or Joseph Roth as well, all Austrians through and through and certainly more accessible
Some people complained I focus too much on Russian literature. I think I got 15 videos (3-4 hours of content) on Russian literature. Any particular writer?
Top 40 novels from Asia: ruclips.net/video/yFzll79hCxk/видео.html
Top 12 novels from South America: ruclips.net/video/PsMBPMjWdNw/видео.html
As a Turkish reader, I will recommend you to read Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Buket Uzuner, Sabahattin Ali and Fakir Baykurt also🙂 And in poetry Nazım Hikmet and Edip Cansever are my favourites.
No wayyy! I was not expecting my beautiful Albania to be the first one!! I have been watching your channel for ages! Thank you for talking about the great Kadare 😊
I am profoundly grateful for your channel. Watching your videos I discovered the greatness and depth of some universal creations of literature that I ignored or couldn't perceive. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your helpful and professional endeavour. You give me the chance to understand better the world and the human's torment.
I am a little disappointed because you skipped some authors from the Romanian literature but may be I am not aware of your 'criteria'.
Appreciate it. the world is vast. Itthis video is only a scratch the surface.
_Pan Tadeusz_ is not actually set in modern-day Lithuania but in modern-day Belarus, which was part of the historical Grand Dutchy of Lithuania, and, in turn, of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Also, the main (titular) character - Tadeusz Soplica - is a young nobleman but not a count (as you said). I found this little mistake particularly weird because there is a character in _Pan Tadeusz_ who is a young count and is referred to simply as the Count (Hrabia). Speaking about Belarus, the name of the country does not mean "White Russia" but White Rus' (or "Ruthenia").
Although Mickiewicz himself was Polish-speaking and wrote in Polish, he wrote some nice things about the Belarusian language:
"The Belarusian language, which is also called Ruthenian or Lithuanian-Rusian [note the single 's' as it refers to Rus, not Russia], is spoken by about ten million people. It is a rich and pure dialect that originated a long time ago and is excellently developed. During the period of Lithuania's independence, the grand dukes used it for their correspondence. The Lithuanian Statute is written in this language, the least changed of all Slavic languages and the most harmonious."
Source: Pisma Adama Mickiewicza, Paris, 1860. Vol. 10: Cours de littérature slave, IV
As for modern Belarusian literature, I've heard good things about the works of Alhierd Bacharevič, particularly "Alindarka’s Children" which has an interesting English translation, utilising some Scottish English and Scots.
Any novel by Knut Hamsun will be rewarding to read, since there's not one novel in his authorship which isn't of the highest quality of literature.
Being master of language he has no superfluous words. This mastery may of course be lost in translation, but since he's also the master of storytelling, a reader who isn't Norwegian/Danish will see this and appreciate it, I suppose.
(By the way, I was surprised that you jumped from Gogol directly to the modern novelists without even mentioning Bulgakov, "The Heart of a Dog", or at least "The Master and Margarita".)
Indeed. Knut Hamsun is one of my favs.
I love this channel, one of my all time favs
The scope of your macroscopic analyses always impress me so much. Lovely to know its possible to have even read this much in one life time. What would your collective read time even be? Fiction beast really is an apt name. What kind of person does one even turn into after having read so much
Please make a video about Vladimir Nabokov
Great suggestion. Yes, in the future.
Liking and commenting for the sake of the algorithm.
Also, as an English teacher, rest assured that I'm going to share your videos with my students.
Thanks for all your hard work.
I really appreciate it.
Great and educational channel :) What is your opinion on "The Return of Filip Latinovicz" and "Cyclops"? Maybe it would be interesting if you did more videos about the literature of "smaller nations". Greetings from Croatia!
Great books! Miroslav Krleža is a good writter. If he was born French, or English, the whol world would know about him.
For me, the best German write is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and no other German writer comes close. Either "The Sorrows of Young Werther" or Faust part 1 and Faust part 2.
for belgium author check it out Marguerite Yourcenar memoirs of hadrian, one of the greatest european novels of the XXI century, deeply psychological and poetic.
Thank You very much by mentioning Fernando Pessoa! He is in my opinion the greatest poet of all time and as Freud said: “everywhere I go, a poet was there before”.
I just finished Don Quixote and at first I was like WTF did I just read? Then I got into a fight with my husband and he blurted out”I don’t care about your stupid books.” Now I can’t stop thinking about it. Is our hero brilliant or not?
Thanks for your videos, they always cheer me up❤
Grace, why did you get into the fight?
Don Quixote is the greatest hero of all time. He represents what's great about humans.
@@Fiction_Beast thanks for that.😀
@@kdot78 20 years of marriage and sometimes hubby just wants to vent. I’ve read enough history, and philosophy to get a little too analytical. It worked itself out. Once he expressed his feelings then I expressed mine. “ then don’t complain.” 😊.
I can’t put all the blame on him. Living with me is like living with Dale Carnegie ❤️
@@gracefitzgerald2227 thanks for the elaboration, I'm not married so I was curious. Thanks 🙂
“Open my heart
And you will see
Etched upon it
Italy”
Amazing video! Greetings from Finland ❤️
Thank you!
May I add Bohumil Hrabal for Czech Republic? He is somewhere between Celine and Kafka. (It’s just how I feel.)
As always, very good job ❤ thank you for your time and effort 🙏
My pleasure 😊
Don’t know why people always characterise Proust as a melancholic writer, a vast part of his novel is more social satire or observations. Guess the ‘melancholic parts’ are just used to connect the social scenes. À la recherche is actually a funny book, full of brilliant observations and dialogues, and Proust always bursted into laughter when reading it to his close friends. Also I don’t know if I have misunderstood the Crime and Punishment completely, but I don’t think the main character was redeemed in the end. I am still a beginner in Russian literature, don’t quite get it. For Austrian literature, Zweig, Schnitzler and Roth are far more accessible than Musil. I have not met many people who have finished der Mann ohne Eigenschaften, but those who have do praise it as a masterpiece. I definitely recommend Joseph Roth’s Radetzkymarsch, read it on two afternoons in Vienna and for me it really captures the now forever lost old Austria. Writers from Bohemia like Rilke and Stifter are also great. Old Austria’s favourite Grilleparzer is also brilliant, now almost nobody reads him. In fact Austrian literature is one of the greatest traditions in Europe, but largely forgotten because of the collapse of the Austrian Empire. I agree that Calvino is a great writer, but personally I prefer Manzoni, guess my taste is more classical. For the Vatican city, obviously the only things it produces now are encyclicals, but if you consider the historical Papal State then there are loads of great writers in Romanesque, Latin, and Tuscan, including Leopardi who comes from the Marche which were part of the Papal State. More closely related to the Papal court you may name perhaps Pietro Bembo, who writes in both Tuscan and Latin. And why not read some of the Papal encyclicals and letters? I personally find Pius IX’s writings where he laments the ‘fall of Rome’ (Breccia della Porta Pia, when the Italians took over Rome) and the closures of churches and monasteries quite interesting. The popes become interesting when they don’t talk about religion. Pope Pius II’s memoir, written in Latin, is also a unique piece of Renaissance literature. I have read like two volumes, but couldn’t find the modern edition for other volumes. It is written in a fairly simple language, less intimate and more structured than Augustine, where the pope discusses his political calculations, religious festivals, and his ideal Renaissance palace. For me it is definitely more exciting and diverse than any of your celebrated French authors of memoirs. It is also continuous prose (instead of diary or chronicle) like ancient historians. The pope has also written so many other things, and even a novel (though I don’t think it is very good). Definitely recommend if you can find modern bilingual editions (he’s hardly read by anyone nowadays except scholars of Renaissance history and literature).
Hey FB. Great video as always.
Discussing Italy I thought you might mention The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. I read it a few years back and liked it a lot. For Italy I always think of it and Dante. And Pizza.
Yes, Leopard is a great shout. I wonder if it was written after (1958) Calvino's Baron in the Trees (1957). the only connection I see that leopards are the only cat species that mostly live in trees. It's random, I know.
"The Betrothed" by Alessandro Manzoni, a XIX century historical novel set in the XVII century IS the national novel of Italy which every student must read at school.
Studying for engineering myself I find the premise for Lykke Per quite interesting I might give it a try
It's a brick of a book but you might enjoy it.
Great. It can be really better with timestamps
It's available now.
@@Fiction_Beast wow thank you
You are simply the best.
Thank you so much for your hard work.
So nice of you
The Serbo-Croatian language and the Bosnian language are the same language by the way.
What has Azerbaijan to do with Europe?
Mauler and Questus by English writer Shawn Williamson. Indicated by histórian, writer and cinema director Andrew Sinclair.
I recommend Meša Selimović "Death and the Dervish" from Bosnia.
The best Welsh novel I've read is "How Green was my Valley" by Richard Llewellyn which is about a mining village falling apart and it was turned into a classical movie too. For a classical Welsh novel go with "The History of the Kings of Britain" by Geoffrey of Monmouth which is the first major King Arthur book. "The Mabiogion" is less of a novel and more of a collection of ancient Welsh stories (a few King Arthur tails but not the major one).
I would recommend you checking Danilo Kiš and Miloš Crnjanski from Serbia.
Thanks for this video!
I would like to add the comeback player of Austrian literature Stefan Zweig, both for his fiction and nonfiction. Plus, the under appreciated Arthur Schnitzler.
The Exemplary Stories by Cervantes are great warm up to meeting the Don.
I read the Lithuanian novel "the White Shroud" I thought it was excellent
the best spanish novel i¨ve ever read is "el arbol de la ciencia" by pio baroja
Can you please make a video on Charles Dickens ? I am a huge admirer of his works and would love to know your opinions on his literature. Thank you.
I already did. Search for dickens vs Tolstoy
@@Fiction_Beast Ooh sorry. I must have missed it. Thank you.
This is a brilliant idea
Decent enough vid but you should have mentioned Karel Čapek or Bohumil Hrabal for Czechia. Way more interesting of a read for the modern reader than a generic novel that would be of no interest to anyone not Czech (and even for many people who are Czech) while Hrabal and Capek's books teem with interesting ideas and characters. It is amusing that you should mention The Man Without Qualities for Austria in the same vid because that book is wholly inaccessible compared with something like The Grandmother, and those not already predisposed to reading something like should never pick it up even for a lark. Perhaps you should have mentioned Stefan Zweig or Joseph Roth as well, all Austrians through and through and certainly more accessible
Thanks very much!!
Gogol considered as a Russian author, but he has some stories about Ukraine, where's he came from.
Please do best novels of all time, keeping the geographical criterion aside
PRICELESS
Can you do more videos about Russian literature?
Some people complained I focus too much on Russian literature. I think I got 15 videos (3-4 hours of content) on Russian literature. Any particular writer?
Nabokov maybe? Since there isn't a video about him :) thank you
Milorad pavic?
robert walser - german speaking but swiss. :)
Ulysses takes place in 1904!
I forgot what year I mentioned
@@Fiction_Beast 1922 :). The year the book was published.
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No Northern Irish authors? 😮😮😮
Any suggestions?
I am from Georgia thank you for reading "Knight in panter's skin" In georgia we call that book Vepkhistkaosani 😅 I know its hard to pronounce
48:16 you meant communism
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