dostoevsky- turn your soul out!
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
- “He turns your soul out” was how my Russian pen pal described Dostoevsky’s work in attempt to verbalize his effect on her, using the English language. It struck me because that was actually how I had felt after a few encounters with his work.
In this video I provide a brief timeline of D’s life, work and my personal journey with him that is long from over.
The painting in the thumbnail and background is “Dostoevsky Painting” by Anatoly Shumkin.
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« turn your soul out », quite exactly. Reading Dostoyevsky feels like him holding a mirror in front of your bare naked entire soul and mind and be like: « look, look at it. Look at how it is intrinsically wired, look at how you’re built, look at the parts you would never dare, or refuse to look at, the parts you didn’t see, the ones you felt like they existed, or didn’t even know they did or could exist. Look at YOURSELF ».
Pinning this comment because you understand. 🙌 you get it.
Bro you make reading sound so fun loll Ive been coming here for motivation lately !
It is fun!!
as a recent dostoevksy convert im literally Sat for this
yay!
This video is everything! Thank you for this
Thank you for watching :)))
you make a very statement-reading Dostoevsky is just an eyeopening experience, and you simply need more. The Adolescent is one of my all time favs! The last couple of lines hit so hard, the paragraph on a man's laugh, and any section with Makar Dolorugy? So good. Always happy to see a Dostoevsky STAN! ✊
YESS like I would’ve highlighted the entire book if I could
Yesss! Great video! Love Dostoevsky! Experiencing Crime and Punishment right now!
Experiencing is the best verb to use when reading Dostoevsky. Thank you so much!
Fantastic video! The Idiot and The Adolescent are my favourite novels of his (along with Netochka Nezvanova), so it was really great to hear how meaningful they were to you! The scene where Prince Myshkin sees the painting of the dead Christ in Rogozhin’s house is the episode that I constantly return to when I think about The Idiot as well.
The choice to include the Russian covers of the novels, especially the ugly ACT ones (I have the Adolescent in this edition, and it mildly hurts to look at it, depsite the fact that I adore the book) is simply priceless 😅
The way you pronounced Petrashevsky was perfect, by the way!
LOL I figured I should use the Russian covers when speaking generally about the works, and they were all hideous! And thank you, I appreciate your kind words :)
you must have put so much work into this!! i love your discussion of his life, i feel like it really makes reading his books feel a lot more personal. the brothers kamarazov is definitely my favourite of his works that i've read so far!! it's somehow incredibly intense and thought provoking but also deeply unserious at the same time. i think i'm going to tackle Demons next 😁
I really appreciate it!! I want to tackle BK soon but I need to get my hands on it first haha
i love this video format.
ive read The Brothers Karamazov and Crime & Punishment. i plan on reading The Idiot next.
I appreciate it! The Idiot is incredibly endearing and riveting, I hope you enjoy.
Loved this! Really excited to start dostoevsky soon! I have Crime and punishment, so that's going to be the first one!
I hope you love it!! I still have to read that
I picked up the adolescent because of your videos also bc I'm 19 turning 20 and the mere fact that the protagonist is 20 sold me lolll. I hope to see aspects of myself and my perspective in Arkady. on page 36 n im already sold!
Oh this comment made my whole day 🙌 let me know how you like it when you finish!!
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love dostoevsky i love him like i love murakami their ability to convey weird awareness in thought like almost what is semi conscious and private in our mind is so sickening and addictive love them love them they make me want to learn both russian and japanese
I loved this vid as someone who wants to get into Dostoevsky!!! Thank you for this, and tbh I know the dog not barking is like pretty good for the videos but at the same time I don't mind when it happens because it makes it feel more like a casual thing that I'm having explained to me. It's just nice! Comfortable. But maybe I'm weird lmao.
I appreciate it 😊😊🙌
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thank you. I loved The Demons. (my translation called it.The Possessed.) Such a prophetic work.
No, thank you! 😊
The dog just wanted to be included in your passions
awwwww
I still need to read Brothers K. I've the others of his main 5, most recently Demons. You should read it! The beginning, you're intentionally in the dark, but as things fall into place it becomes really gripping, and one is the main characters was so interesting. How you view him, how your view changes. It was great.
I think my favorite so far is The Idiot though.
I've read some of his short stories. The Crocodile was hilarious.
That sounds awesome I’m looking forward to it!!
Crime and Punishment was my first one and finished it just a few days after starting. I remember staying up till 3 one night because i just couldnt put it down❤
I can’t wait to read it
@@bookpogo i cant wait to read Adolesent! Havent heard that one reccomended or talked about until you. Gotta finish Demons first though
I have read Dostoyevsky. Russian writing has not declined. Please read Vladimir Sorokin's "Day of the Oprichnik", Lyudmila Ulitskaya's "The Big Green Tent".
Late to the party but great video. You have to read Demons, alongside Notes From Underground might be his most relevant. It warns of the dangers of Anarchism and charismatic leaders. l feel great compassion for Dostoevsky knowing his life, his body of work is really a miracle. Are you reading Tolstoy? a future interesting video might be Dostoevsky vs Tolstoy. I think Dostoevsky is loved mored in Russia and Tolstoy is probably considered a better storyteller by literary critics outside of Russia.
I’ve only read AK and a few of Tolstoy’s short stories. Once I’ve read more from each, that would be a great video idea to pursue 🙌 and thank you!
Please make videos about every new book of Dostoevsky that you read.
Sounds good haha. Just embarked on my Demons journey
"Just a single man, Fyodor Dostoevsky, is enough to defeat all the creative novelists of the world. If one has to decide on 10 great novels in all the languages of the world, one will have to choose at least 3 novels of Dostoevsky in those 10. Dostoevsky’s insight into human beings and their problems is greater than your so-called psychoanalysts, and there are moments where he reaches the heights of great mystics. His book BROTHERS KARAMAZOV is so great in its insights that no BIBLE or KORAN or GITA comes close.
In another masterpiece of Dostoevsky, THE IDIOT, the main character is called ‘idiot’ by the people because they can’t understand his simplicity, his humbleness, his purity, his trust, his love. You can cheat him, you can deceive him, and he will still trust you. He is really one of the most beautiful characters ever created by any novelist. The idiot is a sage. The novel could just as well have been called THE SAGE. Dostoevsky’s idiot is not an idiot; he is one of the sanest men amongst an insane humanity. If you can become the idiot of Fyodor Dostoevsky, it is perfectly beautiful. It is better than being cunning priest or politician. Humbleness has such a blessing. Simplicity has such benediction."
check out The Master of Petersburg by JM Coetzee
Will do
yo comments arent workin on live rip 🌷💔
I fall victim to this every time 😩😩
That is as neat an encapsulation of his life as one is likely to come up with, good job 👍 To take the deep literary biographic dive into his life see Joseph Frank's five volumes, and there is also a huge fat single volume by him with much of its own material so all of the above should be read when you're able 👍 Dostoyevsky's much younger second wife suffered with him right from the start. They ended up penniless in Europe because of his gambling and had to borrow their way home. That was on their honeymoon!! 🙀😲 If they lived nowadays they would also be subjected to opinions of how "inappropriate" their relationship was, never mind that it ended up successful. The barking was not bothersome for me, more disturbing was the cat (typically) walking away disdainfully at the start with the image of her rear end left behind 😆😸
her accounts of that time drove me nuts...I would've hidden the money and disciplined him before selling all of my belongings haha. Also seeing how they mutually fell for each other was so sweet age had nothing to do with it. Annoying how there would be a lot of controversy today. Frances Bean always loves to eat when im trying to film haha
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Consider getting the Michael Katz translation of Brother Karamazov and Crime and Punishment, they're amazing. I remember reading a spanish translation of Crime a decade ago and it was TRASH!!! but the book is so good it doesn't matter, but the Katz translation is something else, it makes it the masterpiece that it is.
Thank you for this! Im definitely going to seek out that translation
how many souls do u own?
2699.. jk
...a russian poet. Blankly stares at the len
Russian literature is intimidating to me. I want to read Anna Karenina as my first Russian novel
The truth is Russian lit is just as entertaining and funny as most other books. Go for it!
Valentina I’m in love with you hehe
Right back at u bae 🤓🩷
hi
Hot take: crime and punishment is overrated.
Don't get me wrong, its a fantastic book, a great story and everything, but i just cannot see why it is considered this sublime moral experience, while the figures are really well written, the story and the moral conflict is kinda vanilla and because of the way the novel is puplished piece by piece over a long span of time, the way the story unfolds feels kinda like a soap opera at times.
I guess since i didn't read it in the original i cannot really judge the language, but while i really like it, it certainly isn't as groundbreaking as some people claim it to be.
Interesting! Have not read so I don’t have any thoughts, however I’ll keep this in mind when I do read it. Have you read any of his other work? Asking since most of his books consist of some kind of moral conflict, perhaps some that you find more complex and intriguing
Ты сказала слова хорошо
Мне очень весело говорить по-русски!
lol @ 1845
bruh like I said 1945 with my whole chest
I love you, but I have to correct you 🙈🙈 pls forgive me, but my ears are bleeding. It's pronounced *DostoIEvsky*, not DostoIOvsky.
Lol thank u I can’t help it I’m a chronic mispronouncer
i was gonna say close the door. why not just buy a cheap mic w mic condom on am e zon