this 600 page book gave me an existential crisis
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hello hello welcome to a reading vlog in which i give another try to one of the most intimidating books on tbr: crime and punishment! it's not really a vlog about the book itself, i might talk about it more once i finish it, but i did want to make a vlog about tackling intimidating books and classcis that may feel a bit scary :)
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Hi! My name is Leonie and I am a 23 year old girl who loves talking about books! From YA to non-fiction to classics, I read it all (although fantasy will always be my fave). I live in the Netherlands and go to university, but make booktube videos in my spare time :)
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"do i want to read this classic or do i want to be someone who has read this classic" i felt personally called out by this 😂
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both!
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Hi! As someone who speaks Russian, this is the word-by-word translation: "Suffering and pain are always necessary for a wide understanding (=knowledge/intelligence) and a deep heart". In essence, it aims to express that the person is quite profound and self-aware, mature, experienced, worldly, smth along the lines of that. Thank you for your videos and best of luck finishing!
What does the expressing „deep heart“ mean?
@@meowmeow-ep8wm I'd say smn who has a deep heart is a person of great feeling, smn who is very empathetic, and, in modern terms, has a high EQ.
Как классно тут встретить a fellow speaker :)
@@el_lagarto8966 А еще лучше от оного сообщение об этом получить))
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For people that feel stressed out by reading "slowly" ( like Leonie and myself!) a helpful tip I've learned is to allocate time to reading rather than pages or chapters. That way, my brain has already mentally registered this time for reading and not for doing other things, so I feel less "guilty" for "wasting time" reading a slower book. I tend to break these chunks up in 30min sessions for these heavier classics. It makes it more palatable
That's really nice advice! As someone who suffers from that stress, I'll be trying to implement that :) Thanks
At 11:00 you talk about needing context to understand the story. This is why when I recommend Crime and Punishment (or really any other Dostoevsky book) I tell them to get the translation by Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear. They do provide that context in footnotes. It makes it so much more understandable. They also translate books by other Russian authors. But those are english translations. But I recommend them.
Agreed! Same goes for Anna Karenina. My Russian-speaking high school English teacher highly recommended their translations and supplemental glossary/index materials.
I have The Master & Margarita translated by them on my TBR shelf currently.
Yes, I mean reading these books without context is just plain stupid. Look up some of that on the internet prior to reading that book.
They are the best. My professor in Russian lit said we always should choose them if possible and I'm from Denmark. If those two had translated the book, he would rather we read them in English than Danish
Simon and Schuster also has a really good print of C&P. They've got footnotes and a recap of the characters names - which was really helpful when I started out because I couldn't remember the many characters. They also have explanatory notes and overview of key themes :)
Apparently Dostoeyvsky and many other authors of his time period were paid by the page, so maybe thats why his works are so long. Makes one wonder what he would've written if that wasn't a necessity.
Dickens was paid by installment/chapter and if I had been alive in that time period I would've thrown rocks at him.
That's interessting! 😀
"In Dostoevsky's novel there are many, many words and all of them have a function" ~ Alfred Hitchcock
@@JamesJoyce12 yeah now I just think Hitchcock was wrong yk lol
I doubt what's liikely the greatest author would unnecessarily make his work longer for the sake of money.
from a perspective of a russian: these two quotes-interpretations that you've mentioned are actually a mix of the original line. It is literally like: "pain and suffering are always inevitable for wide understanding and a deep heart"
Reading one of those big Classics is an interesting exercise. I read In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, which took me two years. There were moments when I found it hard going but then he'd hit you with some of the most beautiful writing on love, jealousy, plants, art, memory, family etc and the way it brings itself to an end is just perfect. I'm glad I read it. After that I think I could read anything. I also read a couple of books around it as I went. There's a guide to all the art in the books, which was a delightful way to rest whilst reading and there was a great book of essays written by a Polish academic whilst a prisoner of war in Russia that really helped understand the books. Getting outside input never does any harm imo. Lovely video btw. I do like your vibe.
Hi there. Who this Polish academic was, may I ask? ✌️
@@reginagrobosz8807 It was Lost Time: Lectures On Proust In A Soviet Prison Camp by Józef Czapski
Yes, I'm reading that now - in French - and it's been almost a year. I don't know it's worth it. Quite frankly, Marcel tends to repetition of detail. And when I muddle through it I can't always decide if it's intentional to depict his unique mental state, or if it's only me. However, now I'm nearly done I know I'll be glad to say "I did it!" even if no one really cares.
@@jamesduggan7200 I think the repetition is intentional. I did struggle with some of it. There's that moment when you turn over a page and in front of you are another two solid pages of text. But I found enough in it to love. I haven't written my notes and quotes up yet though.
After reading In Search of the Lost Time, I promise that you’ll never eat madeleines the same way… lol It’s way more poetic
Back in my senior year of high school, I put this book off for an assignment and then had to binge it in one night 😳 weirdly I think the experience/fever dream made me love the book 10 times more than if I read it in little chunks lol. I aced my paper so it was a happy ending for me if not for half the characters in this brick of a novel 😂
Haha, good for you! And I binge read Pride and Prejudice for an exam, but now I don't want to read it ever again!😅
I read it in two days (one day 100 pages, the next day 500) and, 20 years later, I still hate it 😄
@@barbarat444 😂
@@Silverraine1 oh no!
Girlie you BINGE read this book in a night? Your brain is just superior I ain’t doing that ahahah
Apparently I read too much fantasy, because my first thought when you said 600 page book was “oh ok, not too long then!”
I thought the same!🤣 The last big fantasy I read was The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard which is 900 pages long and I was sad when it ended!
Well, over 700 pages of Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix is short, but 600 pages of Dostojevski is extremely long 😄
@@barbarat444 I’m currently reading 1,000 pages of Brandon Sanderson (and that’s just the first of the series) so I think I just enjoy suffering haha. I definitely agree that Russian literature can be dense though!
@@bibliophilecbyeah 5000 pages of Sanderson ie the first 4 SA books is time consuming but very easy compared to reading any Dostoevsky. Sanderson usually leaves me feeling invigorated whereas the Russians drain me. I love and appreciate both but they’re like apples and oranges.
Reading the spark notes after each chapter was such a good idea. I am definitely going to do that for some of the classics I want to try to tackle this year because they definitely make me feel dumb sometimes 😅
I'm currently reading Crime and Punishment and loving it. One thing that definitely helps me with historical and social references I don't get is that my edition comes with some very helpful notes. 👍
I totally get "the weird stressed feeling", when reading and being aware of your reading pace. So i really appreciate that you share stuff like that on here. It makes engaging in the book community much nicer and not seem like other people never struggle.
But also one a more general note: I always love watching your reading vlogs :) they always feel like we actually get to be with you for that time. (At least for me)
This is so relatable! I'm reading War and Peace at the moment. I started it years ago, had to restart, had to binge watch UA-cam documentaries about the Napoleonic Wars to understand the context, had to find shmoop notes (similar to spark notes) about the book to get to grips with the characters. Even now, my strategy is to read it for 50 minutes a day (in two 25 minute bursts, making a cup of tea in between) to get through it. I'm on page 832 (of 1,392)...
As to whether I'm reading it to just be a person who has... Some days I feel that! Will my review be, 'I thought this was an amazing book' or just 'I'm proud of myself for finishing it'?? 😏
Anyway, good luck with Crime and Punishment and thank you for the vlog 😊
When you finish watch the 1966 Soviet film by Sergei Bondarchuk.
Congratulations! So many videos you've talked about having tried to get through Crime and Punishment, glad to see you finally enjoy it^^
I really appreciate this video! One of my favourite genres is the classics, I find them so rewarding once I find a rhythm, but it is really hard to really get into it! I always find myself reading those when I don't have school or work. I think reading more than one book at a time is a good idea, but I also find it easier to read those huge classics asap, so that I can move on to books with a faster pace. Because I am sure I wouldn't want to go back to War and Peace if I read one of my romance novels at the same time, it would seem 10 times harder to read!
the house in the cerulean sea is amazing!! i just finished it. it seems like a longer read but it goes by so fast. the writing is so colorful and fun to read :) cant wait to hear your thoughts on it!
I am about 200 pages in myself on my second try to conquer it. Your "Smart Leonie" outfit is adorable but you were obviously already super smart. I agree about "Crime and Punishment"--I think Dostoevsky is a genius at drawing little psychological lessons from situations. Ah well--as long as this 600-page book didn't make you want to violently murder your landperson it's all good! ;-)
Good luck with finishing the rest of the book. I normally just dropped a book if I not interested enough to continue it. I respect you for give a long book like that a other go after try to finish it for so long. You can do it!
Love the tidbit about the translation of the quote. Whenever I read a translated story I always wonder what I might be missing.
I've recently started to read heavier books like crime and punishment and what I've really learned it how much of a group effort it is. And how beautiful that group effort is! I really think part of the experience is getting out there with the book, find people who've read it and discuss it. To peel back the layers with people who have like 30+ experience with difficult literature or people who've just started with difficult literature. You'll be able to see so much more and maybe even re-read parts of it to understand it better. Books like these are more like projects with steps besides reading the book.
I get that you're struggling though. Even though it is like a project, it's exactly that aspect of it that can feel boring or daunting or just plain annoying. And it's not a intelligence thing like you said, but a strategy thing. I'm happy you pushed through so far!
i feel you so much on the "do i want to read this book or do i just want to be someone who has read it?" - I had the exact same crisis halfway through The Brothers Karamasov 😄
That happened to me just recently with Letters to A Young Poet.
dude i shit you not i had just started pouring my pasta topping over my plate when i look at the screen and see you randomly do that very same thing the exact same moment, the way i stared at it open-mouthed throwing my hands up and then i sit in the kitchen annoyed at the washing machine for making me have to turn the volume up and hear you say that thing about yours and this is sending me right now lmfao.
anyway i know this video is old but i totally relate to the getting stressed out about the crushing awarenesses of being so damn slow and like everything else lol. thanks for being my comfort go to youtuber always ❤
Omg! I love and appreciate how honest you are about your comprehension of this book. I am a proud owner of this book! Have not read it yet! But I’m pretty sure I’d feel like a total failure caught with the same confusion. Thank you very much when I do pick it up I will know I’m not alone! And I like your strategy! I had to do that with some other books before.
your monologue about being stressed being a slow reader reading a slow-paced book speaks to a different level to me!
Omg I felt so seen! 🤣💙
I’m happy that I read it in high school and loved it. Had I decided to read on my own, I feel like it would have taken me ages to even pick it up for the first time.
I love that you share your journey with that book. I don't think I would suffer through any Dostoyewki (had to in high school, which is always the worst, with deadlines and surface level discussions), but there are some other intimidaring books on my list I miiight feel better about now :)
I feel like we're all here celebrating a graduation or something. Congrats on this journey, Leonie 😂💜 forreal though, it's a MASSIVE book and some books you just have to be in the mood for and unfortunately that mood isn't there :') congrats x
The ending of your video was so well done, I was smiling. You are a very good content creator.🖤🖤🖤
"I am not gonna start from the beginning, because I do not hate myself completely.... Only a little..." - Lady Leonie
i just started this video so i don't know what happens yet but I'm praying to the reading gods that leoni finally finishes this book that way it can leave her tbr shelf once and for all 🙏🏻
I admire your perseverance. Getting a glimpse of your journey through this book unfold is glorious.
“Beautiful discourse is rarer than emerald. Yet it can be found amongst the servant girls at the mill.”
I am also a fellow advocate for having a lighter/more uplifting novel to read whilst reading a big kahuna such as C&P
I always worry about translations. Have I REALLY read it, or just a close approximation of it. Another heady classic that I feel is more engaging is Portrait of a Lady by Henry James. A personal favorite.
yayyyyyy i just watched the vid where you said you wanted to read it before you die and now i'm here. wow. this is one of my favorite books of all time hope you enjoy!
Finally you've conquered this book !. I must admit i also have it but i havent read it yet😂😂 Congratulations!
I would really recommend it, Angelica! It's a lot more accessible than most people think, and it's well worth the read. You can totally do it
Your outfits are so gorgeous, specially the puffy shirt! Also Our Flag Means Death is so so amazing I’m so glad you’re watching and enjoying it!!
The internet can really be amazing in helping to understand classics, when i was reading Ulysses by James Joyce i used a website that someone had made where the explained what happens in every chapter, so i would read the chapter first and then if i was confused i would go to the website.
Oh my goodness - that sounds so helpful. I don't think we can share links in the comments (I tried and my comment didn't post) but please could you share what the website is called? I really want to read Ulysses but I abandoned it because there was too much I didn't understand.
Thank you in advance!
Ah crime and punishment also went very slowly for me. Sometimes 12 pages an hour aka 5 min per page… but I loved it and it’s one of my favourite books now.
When I'm reading a big long book that I'm having issues retaining, I see if I can find an audiobook version and I listen at the same time as I read. It doesn't help the time issue but it really helps me focus since multiple of my senses are involved in the reading process
I do the same! But it actually helps me to read faster because I don’t get distracted in the middle of a paragraph and have to reread it 🤡
The thing you said about reading slowly and the feeling of it is so true
Your videos literally feel like home
Is this my sign to finally finish reading Les Misérables after two years and a half?
... I’d say so
do it! it's such a beautiful book
yes!😊
This is way too funny cause I started reading it a week ago and it's currently literally next to me, wanting to be read😭😂
Mine after 3 years is The Count of Monte Cristo😭
I had a hard time reading Crime and Punishment too, so much that the first time I dropped it around half way through it, but then around a year ago I was finally able to finish it from start to end by reading along with an audiobook. I find this technique very helpful whenever I want to read more difficult books, especially classics. This way I find it so much easier to follow the story thanks to the rhythm and the intonation the voice actor gives by reading aloud
i am finishing crime and punishment today and it's really nice to see other peoples experience with it !! for me, the whole book was okay to read, im not gonna say easy, but i didn't find it particularly hard and i enjoyed the pacing. it's the ending that is taking me the longest but it's mainly because it's cantered a lot around a character i despise.
to be honest, classics are more bearable to me if i don't take them seriously 100% of the time. like yeah, it is a serious depiction of human nature and 1800s russia, however it's also about silly little insane people and i respect that
ps: it rly helps to read with endnotes or have help by litcharts
I get that exact thing all the time, where I am constantly thinking about everything else exept the chapter that I just read. It's a massive pain
I have a hard time reading classics since I became chronically ill/disabled. The brain fog is bad, and it takes me longer to digest information. I used to be in Literary criticism, and AP English. so I read tons of classics. I mostly stick to YA now
Die colour match van de labels tho. God wat maakt mij dat unreasonably blij
Reading big classics can sometimes get very intimidating. This is what happened to me while reading The Count of Monte Cristo. The solution I found was that listening to the audiobook (available for free in UA-cam) instead while keeping tracks on which page you are in the book. It becomes so easy.
I did the same with Jane Austen. It was really helpful and fun.
Yes I did this a lot when I had to read Charles dickens for school, makes the old jargon/dialect much easier to comprehend when you hear someone actually say it rather than reading it on a page!
i'm polish and i feel like it was way easier for me to read it because polish is more similar to russian and the way they talk feels more familiar. i tried to read it in english and definitely wasn't the same! i imagine dutch may be just like that
Im also reading "crime and punshment" 😂 im reading it in arabic and what is intresting is that in arabic it is actually two books each one of them is almost 500 pages 😅😅 it took me the first 100 pages to fall in love with this book and to understand what is going on and now im in the second book and im so in love with it!! Ive been reading it for almost a year and i actualy dont want to finish it from how much im loving it 😂i also wish i knew russian to be able to read it in its original form🤩 hope that you liked it in the end 🥰
Hello Leonie! I am currently reading the Night Circus and I am loving it. It's not the typical book with a structured plot and I am surprisingly liking it a lot. As you said, this book is no plot just vibes, and I am vibing with it. Thanks for the recommendation
It was a big deal to me to read this book because I did it last year, when I was getting into reading again (after a pause of 6 years) and I remember that even I thought it was a little too long I didn't care and get into it sooo much that it took me a week and a half to finish that big boy... I admit that I didn't love it but surely like it. Thanks to Dostoyevski I get back into the beautiful world of literature 💜 (he's one of my fav authors)
The main difficulty with the book are character names. Each character can be referred by multiple variations of his/her name, and it's often getting confusing who's who.
This video and the comments on it have given me so many helpful tips for reading those BIG. CLASSIC. BOOKS. that I think I finally feel more ready to read them. Russian literature especially has always felt daunting, since the cultural context is very different from what I'm used to. But then again, the same goes for Chinese classic literature or Indian classic literature.
First of all, Our Flag Means Death is SO GOOOD and more people need to see it so it can get renewed cause we NEED season 2!! And the amount of fan art related to it is amazing!!
That being said :)) this is what I feel like reading Shakespeare - like i’m only getting the surface and missing so much context … and i’d like to learn more but at the same time I don’t want reading to feel like homework … it’s complicated 😅
I also had the same reading too slow frustration while reading Dune. I was loving the books but reading them took so much mental effort it was a weird experience
As soon as I saw the title I thought “ah Crime and Punishment” and I was right lmao I’m reading it at the moment too, I’m about halfway through but so far it’s just been hilarious, I absolutely love Raskolnikov
Honestly, I had the same issue with Neuromancer, I had no idea what was going on until I looked up a glossary of all the different tech names and organisations' acronyms and then I understood what was happening, I enjoyed it in the end and I'm excited to read the next books in the series. The same with Berkeley's 'Principles of human knowledge and three dialogues' which I enjoyed after watching a video by a Philosophy professor. It's okay not to understand everything the second you read it.
Haha juste by seeing the title I immediately know what book it’s about!!
I see myself in high school again reading this book (as a set book), now I know that was a bigger reason for it - to understand your pain XD
I haven't finished it yet, but I had the same experience with the Count of Monte Cristo. My best friend was reading Les Miserables at the same time and we both found it so much more rewarding when we started looking at the historical context, key dates in the French revolution, facts about Napoleon etc. I'm hoping to get back into it and finish it after I graduate at the end of this year!
I really enjoyed watching the video until the end, you are creative, keep up your passion
i literally just binged ofmd so i am so happy you mentioned it haha
Read this for a Literature course (was it the abridged version, I can't remember), and I think the book itself is kind of suspenseful and emotionally draining and reading for a course really "enhanced" that feeling. Can totally relate to feeling the stress. It was actually helpful having an instructor explain some of the more complex stuff to me, however.
I read the title and said "has to be crime and punishment"... I was right. I think to anyone who reads this, an existential crisis and huge questioning of their life philosophy is a mandatory experience. I can definitely say I felt the claustrophobia and darkness every time I read a page, it is intense but worth it. One of the few masterpieces worthy of being called a classic. I read Oliver Ready's new translation and it feels so fluid and great, definitely more modern than other translations and is the one I recommend for English readers.
Leonie, on her final year of a neuroscience master: am I stupid?
the title of the video says it all its obviously crime and punishment
'The House in the Cerulean Sea', while it LOOKS long, would actually be a terrific "I need a break" book because it is so fluffy and feel-good. It broke me out of a reading slump caused by the (long AND ennui-filled) 'The Windup Bird Chronicles', which had caused me to get stuck in the middle of not only WUBC, but two other books as well!
In my country this book is mandatory reading in secondary school and besides it being a brick of the book to read I really enjoyed it (and I didn't enjoy most of the readings in school)
I’m almost finished with 100 years of solitude and I found an old copy of crime and punishment which I thought I might read and I think this video is a sign that I should !!
"...for wider conscience and deep heart". You are welcome.
im taking this video as a signal to continue reading this book, I'm like 50 pages in and I can't take it anymore but I'll try to finish it, because I already started it two times and gave up, so the third time's the charm
This was actually my favorite book when I’ve read it for school. I have so many notes in mine
The biggest problem is always translation😅 I read this book in russian and thought it was amazing and not that hard, but your experience gave me a different perspective
The sheer excitement I just experienced when she mentioned Our Flag Means Death.
I love Our Flag Means Death so much.....
Crime and Punishment was my fav school reading in High School because it was the closest to my fav genre which is crime and suspense :)
who else feels like Leonie should start a podcast? I would love to hear more about her thoughts
I typically read fast and when I'm reading slower I get stressed and feel bad, so I understand in the opposite sense 😆. I usually read 7 to 10 books at a time to switch it up so I don't get bored and stressed out. I bought four short books yesterday because I was getting stressed with all of my long books.
I would really recommended you to read the house in the cerulean sea! It helped me so much when reading a long book as the story just went by so quicly!!
Totally understand about not knowing the historical context because that's how I felt reading The Master and Margarita. Still enjoyed it though. I love magical realism.
crime and punishment AND our flag means death?? what an amazing reading vlog!!💓
This book was a ROLLERCOASTER and damn
ooo my favourite set book in high school in Poland. I have already read it twice
Hey Leonie! I was wondering if the sticky notes leave a lot of residue if you remove them from your book after a while. I used these (HEMA I believe) as well in on of my studybooks, but so much glue stayed behind and damaged the page.
I couldn’t even take that book down. One of my favs. 5 days read. War and Peace, though, took me 3 weeks. Both are my favs.
Tbh crime and punishment was my first "classic" I ever read and completely loved it 😝
I gave up on reading Anna Karenina when I was in high school but I want to try again someday
oh yes, please do! it really is worth it
I really thought it was too boring. I didn't really like it.
I read it when I was in college and I can't say I remember anything about it, but do remember I enjoyed those spicy love affairs and the pining (lord, the pining).
Same book same experience. I got to around 100 pages in the translation I am reading and thought he has done the deed do I need another 500 pages of angst. No issues with the length of the book but I find it hard going, unlike Quiet Flows the Don, War and Peace, etc. I am sure I will get to the end eventually! Keep going.
I had to read 60+ novels for my degree (90% of which were 500+ pages) and I can say going back and forth between two novels makes me feel like I’m going sm faster! I like to switch books after each chapter.
I immediately knew the title was about this book and I am reading it right know. I actually enjoy Crime and Punishment, but, yes, it is difficult to go through😅
OH MH GOD YOURE A LIFE SAVER
8:00 SAME! i suppose it's influenced by my anxiety
For anyone else who wants to read crime and punishment but is struggling, I highly recommend the audio book on UA-cam channel 'audio books classics 2'.
The narrator is excellent!
Oof, I started listening to Crime and Punishment as an audiobook once and I couldn't make it more than an hour in I had to give it up. It made me realize I'm not in a place in my life where consuming sad media will do anything for me other than make my mental health even worse than it already is.
At first it made me feel bad about myself when I couldn't handle things I used to be able to handle without thinking about it and I would make myself engage with media that made me unhappy because I "should" be able to handle it. Crime and Punishment was so truly horrible that I finally realized making myself do this was pretty much self harm and there was no benefit, only sadness.
I'm not better yet but I've been a little happier since accepting that right now the things I need to read and watch are happy things that make me more willing to go on and maybe contemplate a little less for the time being 😂
Okay so basically, this is me right now reading Shakespeare for the first time. Hamlet, to be more specific. I have watched 2 direct adaptations of this work, so it shouldn’t be this hard, but it is??? And when i do get things right i am surprised
The day is finally here everyone...
Over vertalingen (in het Nederlands omdat het anders linguïstisch nog iets ingewikkelder wordt). Als ik me niet vergis, is de vertaling van de editie die je gelezen hebt van Laurens Reedijk; een veel 'modernere' (en recentere) vertaling is gedaan door Hans Boland. Beide vertalingen van het citaat die je noemde zijn opvallend. Allereerst, in het Russisch staan 'pijn' (bol') en 'lijden' (stradanie) precies andersom. Verder is inevitable (in het Nederlands 'onvermijdelijk' vermoed ik) een vertaling van objazatel'ny, wat letterlijk iets als 'verplicht' of 'vereist' is. Het Engels zit dichterbij, omdat het stukje 'those with' (of Nederlandse corresponderende termen) compleet afwezig is in het Russisch. Dat levert een interpretatieprobleem op, omdat het in het Russisch (enigszins) ambigu is of mensen die al een bepaald soort begrip en hart hebben lijden en pijn nodig hebben, of dat het voor het verkrijgen van een bepaald soort begrip en hart nodig is pijn te hebben en te lijden (maar die tweede interpretatie lijkt mij veel natuurlijker - contra Reedijk). 'Wide'/'breed'/'wijd' is een letterlijke vertaling van širokij. 'Understanding' is een vertaling voor het woord soznanie. Letterlijk betekent dat 'bewustzijn', maar vaak is het equivalent met 'begrip' of 'besef'. 'deep' is een letterlijke vertaling van glubokij. Reedijk heeft het waarschijnlijk metaforisch gelezen: een 'diep hart' zou dan iets moeten zijn als een sterk gevoel voor mededogen, compassie en überhaupt gevoel (al zijn de connotaties van het woord voor 'hart' in het Russisch nogal complex) - wat hij blijkbaar meer associeert met warmte. Grappig genoeg wijken dus beide vertalingen op verschillende manieren af van Dostoevskijs origineel. Dat gezegd hebbende, sorry voor de rant. Ik dacht dat het misschien interessant zou zijn.
dankje, super interessant!
I had to read this book for my class in high school as a lecture and apparently I was the only person in entire class who actually read it from the first page to last. And I really liked it. Thought it was an interesting vision of morality (even though a little grim and the main character seemed a little self-absorbed). Well, now I thought about re-reading it, but I feel I'll fail. XD
i'm planning to read the book this month or the next but i definitely will listen to the audiobook! i dont think i can read it without the audio (there are some here in youtube)
'There was no incentive back then to be concise' - laughed out loud at this :D To be honest, as a person who went through a Russian school in Moscow, there are better books in classical canon, including in Russian to be read :D Throw your tomatoes at me, but I think many people, as you said want 'to be someone who has read this classic' instead of actually wanting to read it :)
Love the way you ended the video!
I have a 1200 pages of Russian literature on my currently reading shelf since October last year that are still waiting to be transferred to the completed shelf lol … great job.