Loved your collection Andrew❤ I still have Dharma Bum and yet to read... currently reading Glass bead game..saw your video on that.. really enlightening...pls do share if you have any piece of advice before reading glass bead game... really value ur content!

I love bookshelf tour. Thanks !

I love your videos <3

I took the burrow as again Kakfkas absurd anxiety about people, The Trial showcased that with Joseph K always being watched no matter what he did and told to just live normally despite having an impending trial and everything he did to worry about this one issue caused him this perpetual fear, I take the burrow as the same, even in isolation this creature still finds means to worry about the outside and inside world, this creature can’t even understand the whistling noise in his own creation to protect himself despite doing all these things in his head that he deems a “perfect plan” yet this one thing keeps happening.

Thank you for summarizing in detail the arc of the work. Thomas Mann is an author I've yet to read, and one I must.

On visits to used books stores over several decades, I encounter Zweig’s bestsellers from the thirties. These are translations into English. He is always going to crop up here and there, but it is hard to believe he was quite a popular writer in the US before World War Two. His tragic end, of course, meant he was not a living presence post-war.

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Great video. I just bought the “Essential” Kafka which is basically most of his works in one book. I’ve never heard of this book and I’m glad I watched your video first before reading. ❤ Greetings from Angola 🇦🇴

I suggest discussing more subjective opinions, like how the book made you feel and how it impacted your view on life. Id love to watch that. But I understand that it may be a difficult thing to do because of the vulnerability.

I just finished this book. I find his writing so hard to follow, but maybe it didn't help that I read it over time while on a treadmill at a gym.....I am a fan to true crime, so I didn't find it to be that shocking, but his wonderfully descriptive writing made it more disturbing. I wasn't fully disturbed until the corn cob was brought out. Thanks for your interesting review and thoughts! It's nice to see adults younger than I am reading good literature and talking about it on KZbin!

He loved mocking Austrians...

I haven’t heard anyone use the word anfractuous since I listened to some Wallace interviews.

Hello from Brasil...I liked the vídeo..Machado de Assis it is fantastic...

Just found your channel ❤ I read this book this week, I liked it so much. Love from Brazil 🇧🇷

SE UM ESTADUNIDENSE CONSEGUIU TRADUZIR CLARICE LISPECTOR, ENTÃO MERECE PARABÉNS !!!

One of my favorite books of all time.

This is actually a real religion by now. “God is change”… people took her idea pretty seriously. This book and its sequel is way more impactful than we expected. The themes in this book are brutal. Self defense is just the setting to show how is the situation what we can achieve if we continue this way. But the actions have a reason and that’s the real problem. The society is on the edge in many ways but the government is one of them. Flashes out the problem of corruption that comes immediately of any need. And of course racism. Guns are also a principal cause and a solution? That’s a question of the book. Is it good Americans have them or the cause that this extreme the danger could go? Now there is also the theme how cults start. It was a very bad thing in USA back then. And so on…

Enjoyed listening to your careful thoughts on it. I was also surprised at how true the film was to the source material. Keep going!

Good to see my favourite author making waves in the world.

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis is a seminal work in Brazilian literature and a cornerstone of Realism in Brazil. The novel is narrated by Brás Cubas, who, from beyond the grave, recounts his life story with a blend of wit, irony, and philosophical reflection. Freed from the constraints of societal norms and personal vanity, the posthumous narrator offers a candid, often critical, perspective on 19th-century Brazilian society. Brás Cubas narrates his journey from a privileged upbringing to various failed pursuits, including an unfulfilled political career and unsuccessful romantic endeavors. His detached and humorous recounting of events highlights the absurdities of social pretensions and human folly. The novel’s unconventional narrative structure, direct address to the reader, and metafictional elements mark it as a significant departure from traditional storytelling, establishing Machado de Assis as a master of literary innovation. Machado de Assis’s importance in Brazilian Realism cannot be overstated. Alongside *Quincas Borba* and *Dom Casmurro*, *The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas* forms part of his Realist Trilogy, which critically examines society through keen psychological insight and sophisticated narrative techniques. Machado de Assis brought to light the complexities of the human condition and the intricacies of social dynamics, using irony and pessimism to dissect the moral and existential crises of his characters. His contribution to Brazilian literature not only defined a literary era but also set a high standard for future generations of writers. Machado de Assis is celebrated for his ability to blend European literary influences with a distinctly Brazilian sensibility, creating works that continue to challenge, engage, and inspire readers.

Machado de Assis the best!!!🥰🩵

I love your book reviews. hug from a Brazilian who loves reading.

Muito bom, os estrangeiros lerem livros brasileiros.

Hello Andrew. G.H. could be understood as Gênero Humano in Portuguese which means Human Genre in English. And the Passion could be paraphrased with the Jesus's Passion. I don't know if you can understand me. Greetings from Brasil.

bro what are you talking about , this seems like the longest rant

Good review !! But all ur reviews are good !! ..

I just finished it last week, one of the most memorable fictions I read. A must read, A MASTERPIECE

this story is really great mastrpiece

You don't pronounce the E at the end of Gide. It's Gid. I only have the counterfeiters by him, still haven't read it.

we need a weekly rant, just discovered ur channel today n I'm binge watching all your videos. i'd love to follow you, are you active on insta or twitter?

did you put your book out? id love to read it

you seem so insightful and passionate about whatever book you're reviewing, love u keep going

Hello Andrew! 153 videos in 2 years, good job! I will check out some of your past videos shortly. (I am editing my video for The Samurai tonight.) I hope the KZbin experience has been good for you. I sometimes thing about giving it up, but it seems to have become quite a difficult habit to break. Hope you are well!

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Sorry, but Thomas Mann is not an english name, you can't read it in english. But thank you for this video❤ Greetings from Finland ❤

loved the unscripted format!! watched while i did dishes ahaha

I loved the contrast between Ahab and Ishmael. How Ahab is monomaniacal, monotheistic and revenge-driven; while Ishmael digresses in almost every chapter, is polytheistic, and runs from confrontation. Perfect foils for each other. One aimless at sea and the other completing quests he's created for himself.

Makes me intrigued to read this one! Thanks for sharing your thought, love Cormac McCarthy.

First af all--KUDOS to you for reading such Important & meaningful books! It is rare, and moreso these days where we tend to glorify mediocrity. Hesse--he's about my favorite writer, but 'N & G' is the weakest of his latter (great) books, as Hesse historian Ziolkowski states: Hesse means to show both characters equally--as 2 halves of the same person--but since the book mainly follows Goldman's externalized adventures, the book is off-balance, and the least successful in Hesse's 5 novels that attempt to express Unity in the self-search. (And, keep in mind, when Goldmund comes back to the cloister and their friendship he says to Narcissis: "I realized that I spent my whole life courting you") Still, when taken along with all his great novels, Hesse says more than almost any other writer.........

Thank you.

Hello!

good video, interesting to hear your impressions on one of our lesser-known poets. i would also recommend to check our velimir khlebnikov, if you enjoyed this

I just read Blindness last month and really really liked it. Its will be out in my video tomorrow. I found it read good on so many levels. I will absolutely check out some more of his works. Thanks for sharing bud liked and subscribed #339 too ;-). Peace Love and Happiness ~ Tracey

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I used to read classics and this book looks weird to me 😅 Thank you for your explanation

enjoyed this!! Keep going man!

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Great review Andrew! Yeah, i guess what they got most right was that scene where they are getting really high on that cassino bar scenario and just start to slowly spiral into insanity horrified by the evil vibe of the place (which is a more mushroom-type trip due to the extreme levels of sensibility it puts you trought in your unconscious perception of the world). Its hard to describe but its like being stuck in a hell of evil unclean energy you cannot escape. A lot of the reason why people take stuff for granted or are able to cope with a basically infinite universe and not be freaked out is that they are dissencitized to it and just live on automatic, avoiding looking at the true nature of the things they see, or in a sense, being blind to the misterious dark forces that perhaps may be taking place in front of them. Hallucinations are certainly something that gets overdone in these movies but it happens that way with drugs that make you dissociate rather than hallucinate, just because dissociation is more related to the darker schizoprenia side of the brain, like a living a nightmare type dream. I guess the two types of different drugs get kind of smashed together as the same thing for the audiences sake and entertainment. Datura trip reports are usually very insigthfull as to the nature of a dissociative (also the most potent and destructive substance i know of that kind), it just triggers a schizoprenic psychotic breakdown more than a trip, and literally anything can materialize as pure reality without any possibility of distinction, making people talk to friends who arent there, smoke invisible cigarretes and literally be poisoned almost to death. Datura also lasts something like 2-4 days, having percetible effects till a month later and severe brain damage following. It was usually only used by shamans and after heavy spiritual cleansing. Theres certainly an almost endless amount of both uglyness and beauty, and people generally dont think much of anything because it would require a ton of energy to deal with every bit of it, so being dissencitized to it is like floating above it all, only selectivelly caring about one thing or another momentarily. Same reason why usually one of the biggest signs of depression is ruminating over bad things again and again, and why teraphy doesnt work for some people as well as others

I appreciate your videos so much

Magic mountain was published in 1924