Dostoevsky's Genius Life Philosophy

[@Fiction_Beast]

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[@rob5197]

What would he think of the western world of today ? - - all unhappy, complaining, unsatisfied, expecting our < own human rights > to. be considered, valued and given time by others - - . Constantly told that most of things we see may cause, stress, anxiety, fear, may offend, may upset someone etc etc... Any wonder suddenly we see( apparently) mental weakness, the new modern pandemic ?

[@maynulhoque9791]

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[@eleosiluvatar7828]

I always enjoy your analyses! But I don't see much difference in suffering and demands on us whether the society claims to be "capitalist," "socialist" or "communist." But you only focus on "capitalism" with ever defining what you're talking about. "Captialism demands success..." is axiomatic. I would like to hear your analysis of Ayn Rand.

[@elimyrick-smith5106]

Fix the title it's Dostoyevsky, with a y, it's not dosTOEvsky

[@shanebrennan2581]

All this is good but your forgetting the universal law of a higher power. Its he who chooses what role you will play. Fate, the word should be replaced by higher power, God, Allah, Jesus's whatever you may label it..Books (art) give meaning to our reality that is we never really become what we always dreamed of becoming. The older you are, the more you try you begin to fee and identify the push back of the universe.

[@philliptoone]

2:06 Know yourself 3:21 Don't dream to big 4:46 Suffering is necessary 6:02 Rationality won't make you happy 7:56 It's okay to be a fool 9:03 You have both good and evil in you 10:18 Take responsibility 11:37 See the beauty in others

[@matthewhughes1053]

I could have wrote those words but it has taken me 50 years to realise the value of each sentiment.

[@cleocruz9688]

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[@philliptoone]

@@cleocruz9688 yup, it's what I do. 👍

[@ronehanumansingh3954]

Thank you

[@msteele919]

Thanks Phillip! What a boss.

[@Viggypop571]

Pure genius. No one has the ability to go so deep into the human soul, like Dostoyevsky. Slava mu!

[@onceamusician5408]

eerrr, maybe the prophets and apostles could indeed if the Bible is the inspired word of God these definitely did go much deeper than poor Fyodor Mikhailovich

[@Lion-O-Richie2040]

Yeah ok. I like when people make statements like this when there’s plenty people that have and can dive deep into the soul on the same or ignorant not a higher level. Just because you haven’t heard those people, doesn’t mean they don’t exist. That’s like saying no one can play no one can delve into special relativity than Einstein.

[@genesises]

@@Lion-O-Richie2040 while you have a point - he is simply impressed and showing praise, not being actively willingly ignorant - even if that is usually the actual result of that. personally i react just like you quite often - then i think the person is stupid. then i think i am stupid for wasting my time thinking the person is stupid. then i realize i react like this because i care. then i think im stupid because i care and have more empathy than i know what to do with (and can't stop my mind from going). then i realize caring is the most important thing of all for personal growth and constructive practical results in the real world. then i understand why i was so depressed for so long. then i sigh and try to let it go 😂

[@EarthSurferUSA]

He had no soul. Her had no good human spirit. He was a delusional bum like marx. You are suppose to look up to that?

[@ryanmellor2238]

​@@onceamusician5408it's a big "if" and also which god?

[@mickdrummer5965]

I am a psychiatrist and I learned more about people from Dostoevsky than from any “medical” book!

[@laaaliiiluuu]

Probably because most medical books were sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry

[@sayandebghosh2681]

Because you bunked medical school and a failed psychiatrist now.

[@glo_me666]

Any books you can recommend?

[@mickdrummer5965]

@@glo_me666 It’s a journey. They are all good . Listen to you tube lectures. You will eventually find the starting ( book ) point for you. Good luck !

[@glo_me666]

Thank you for taking the time to answer. By the way, as a Psychiatrist, what book do you feel has influenced you, inspired, or has had the greatest impact on your life the most? From any writer/philosopher/psychologist, etc.

[@Barushia]

Notes from the underground is probably my favourite book of all time. It totally changed my world and left me with a profound selfdoubt and it gave me a wake up call to who i really am.

[@Fiction_Beast]

It's a great novel.

[@raia9]

Is it good to have profound self doubt?

[@Barushia]

@@raia9 In some cases yes, when its a part of a transformation i think its absolutly necessary.

[@antseanbheanbocht4993]

​@@BarushiaHow did it change your world? I too have read it but I'm interested in its effect on you.

[@TheWolfTraderofficial126]

Love & Respect for the greatest novelist in the world...Dostoevsky's magnificent books always gives supreme knowledge in every possible way..

[@Fiction_Beast]

Well said!

[@TheWolfTraderofficial126]

@@Fiction_Beast thank you.. for this amazing video ♥️❤️💯

[@Fiction_Beast]

@@TheWolfTraderofficial126 Really appreciate it.

[@lf1496]

My favorite writer of all time. "Notes from the Underground" and "Brother's Karamazov" are my favorite novels. His writing is very spiritually rich and full of philosophical questions. I practice an African religion and ALL of these ideas are the basis of our philosophy. My religion is not based on some exclusionary dogma but on the general principles of the laws of nature which at the root is about maintaining balance.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Awesome. I have talked about both those novels on separate videos.

[@chrisneves1274]

What's your religion called?

[@lf1496]

@@chrisneves1274 IFA

[@madcyborg1822]

Wrong, Dostoyevsky literally looked at everything from an Orthodox Christian perspective. He was an anti-religious revolutionary in his younger days, but then he discovered Christ again. He even said that if Christ did not exist, he would still believe in him. In his writings and quotes he constantly critiqued and showed how foolish other religions and atheism are. Only Orthodox Christianity is the complete way to life. And no amount of obtuse anti-religious misrepresentation you try to apply to him, he was always openly a very strict and hardcore ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN. "Between (your) truth and God, I choose God" - Dostoyevsky.

[@acemanley111]

If you enjoyed Dostoevsky, he believed in the Orthodox Christian faith. They actually have some churches out there in Africa. Maybe check one out if you get the chance? Haha forgive me please enjoy your day ❤️ May God bless you ☦️🙏

[@SB-by5mt]

Fantastic! Inevitability of human suffering to shed imperfections brought forth in Dostoevsky’s works makes him one of the greatest novelists of all times!

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thank you!

[@syedzafar3040]

Thanks! Very well done. Please keep on doing these.

[@willieluncheonette5843]

"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."

[@Fiction_Beast]

The sage is apt, but it won't make a lot of sales. Great comment, so thanks.

[@jeffdude6088]

Very well said.

[@lsf698]

Who did you quote?

[@willieluncheonette5843]

@@lsf698 For some reason I'd rather not say. But it sure as hell isn't me. I'm nowhere near as aware as this man. Here is more from him " I must tell you that after the Russian revolution something happened to the Russian genius; Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Maxim Gorky - they all disappeared. Yet in Russia today, the writer, the novelist, the artist, is the most highly paid and honored person. So what happened? Why don’t they create books like Brothers Karamazov, Anna Karenina, Fathers and Sons, The Mother, or Notes from the Underground anymore? Why? I want to ask a thousand times, why? What happened to the Russian genius for writing novels? I don’t think any country could compete with Russia. If you count only ten novels of the world, just out of necessity you will have to include five Russian novels, leaving only five for the whole remaining world."

[@donkeychan491]

The Idiot is the villain - a vainglorious fool who leaves a trail of destruction. Dostoevsky is mocking the self-absorbed, self-deceiving narcissistic who reduces morality to simplistic (“rational”) rules and then acts them out to the point of absurdity. This character is an analogue of the virtue signalling liberals we see in today’s world, who are leading us to destruction.

[@st_magna]

Saying that Dostoevsky was not religious is just silly, if you look into his personal life you'll find he was a devout Russian Orthodox Christian. His deep faith seeps into all of his writings and is impossible to ignore.

[@272attwell]

Yes. I have a feeling the person who made this video could not bring himself to admit this obvious fact.

[@ddubsr5886]

I think you can tell a lot by a man’s heart by how they respond to their death: Yes, Fyodor Dostoevsky asked his children to read the parable of the Prodigal Son aloud before he died. He also encouraged them to return to their heavenly father and have confidence in his forgiveness Don’t be a “fool” and disregard the gift of forgiveness that you can have as well but seek a relationship with Jesus NOW while you still have breath to do so

[@kastorasrider9180]

Dostoevsky was at his young age envolved in agnostic humanistic socialistic groups of the time ( lets say the social justice warriors of the time), that envolvment led to his exile in siberia as an anarchist ploting to dethrone the Char. At his time in the hard labour camps he read the parabole of the Prodical son from the Bible and as he said it broke his heart . When he was released he kept regular contact with the famous Russian monastery of Optina. He had personal relationship with the Abbot ( Starets) Ambrosious of Optina, ( now saint Ambrosious of Optina for the orthodox church) and upon him he created the character of Elder Zosimas in his book Brothers Karamazov. So its safe to say that he was an active practioner of the orthodox christian faith.

[@alexewing7264]

“Dostoyevsky is considered the greatest Russian writer along with… the other ones.”

[@denmakenlo890]

Like JD Salinger, who wrote The Catcher in the Rye, and... other things.

[@SUMERUP]

ïs considered"? what about you?

[@AntonSobyanin]

Come on? Yes, Dostoevsky is on top. But Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bulgakov are still also inaccessible. Russian classical literature is generally on a different level compared to the rest of the world literature.

[@hunkydory3521]

@@AntonSobyanin what do you mean they're "inaccessible?"

[@tanned_cosines_]

​@@hunkydory3521 that their works haven't reached to people considering how well their writings are. Haven't really accessed them, so dont know how good Mr. Anton perceives them to be. (i m sure they are fantastic because Russians perceive well 😂)

[@davidflax648]

I loved “Crime and Punishment’. Fascinating! Dostoevsky was a very DEEP man.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Crime and Punishment is my favourite of his works.

[@jeanpaulfelix4095]

The more I learn about russian authors the more I am in Awe. Puskin for me is the great man as his life was his best work.

[@Fiction_Beast]

I agree. Russia has a rich literary tradition.

[@pdjinne65]

Notes from the underground might be the book that influenced me the most. I had never read anything before, that could dive so deep into the human soul and understand it so well.

[@FProductions64]

I finished The Idiot today, heartbreaking ending for me. But such a masterful one as well. Not what I had expected, it really shocked me and still does. I think it will stick with me for a while.

[@thomasburke3013]

“The adolescent” aka “a raw youth” was life changingly beautiful

[@kazimierzgaska5304]

"The Possessed"! The analysis of Putin-type mother-f*s.

[@goswamigeeta]

Appreciate your narration and analysis. There is no mention of "The Insulted and The Humiliated" in any of your videos . I liked it very much.

[@raskolnikov1461]

Re reading his work at different age only unfolds more layers and levels endlessly. Beautiful soul. Forever one and only go to author that shows the pain of being a woman, understands, forgives, never judges ❤️‍🩹Love Russia for giving the world this genuineness and literary sincerity named Dostoyevsky ❤️

[@bhupendubey6891]

I can’t thank you enough . What a treasure u gave . Your love for doing what u do reflects in content line drawings and energy , passion - Keep it up - this is real power of SM like U Tube - I reached Dostoevsky via U - Talented Narrator .❤️

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thank you so much 😀

[@Kristofur77]

People that want to get introduced to his way of thinking but are hesitant from reading one of his great works right away. Start with the Dreams of a Ridiculous Man. You can read it easily under 2 hours maybe 1 but his characterization on how low life can bring you down and one small event can give you appreciation beyond even your expectations.

[@Fiction_Beast]

the Dreams of a Ridiculous Man is a great place to start but for drama, entertainment and philosophy, i suggest Crime and Punishment. It has it all.

[@DemonSlide]

"The Brothers Karamazov" is by far my favorite. Currently reading "Demons".

[@Kristofur77]

@@DemonSlide The 1st half of demons is a lot different than the 2nd half. Brothers is my favorite book excellent work

[@lonelycubicle]

I always suggest people read The Grand Inquisitor chapter if want to get an introduction to Dostoyevsky. The Brothers Karamazov is one of my favorite books.

[@lone8398]

Are His books written in simple English?

[@sharontheodore8216]

First congratulations for the terrific graphics. There is so much valuable information contained in this video that it is worth watching it a few times. I guess human doubt and confusion remain the same over the centuries. Thank you so much for this tremendous effort.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thank you! I tried a new tool making this video. It took much longer to make it. I am glad it was educational.

[@bimankumarmaitra9019]

Always helpful from the birth to death and it's in between periods

[@supremereader7614]

Beautiful video, could have broken it up into two great video's. with the 'writing tips' being a whole different video that likely would have been popular because the video would have been shorter. Anyways, I appreciate you. Keep up the great work, I'll keep supporting you. 🙏

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thanks so much for the support! It means a lot.

[@lpeek56]

Love this! Thank you for distilling these insights from Dostoyevsky’s amazing works. I will be on the lookout for these as I read through this authors works!

[@dineshatri2417]

I've read his novel Crime and Punishment and can confidently say that Psychologist can learn from him more than what they learn from books. He's a master craftsman as a writer of human suffering, dilemmas, reality and ofcourse faith.

[@shpulka8696]

Я живу в России. Достоевский, как и многие другие писатели включён в школьный курс литературы. В ставших классах, после прочтения книги, нас водили в кинотеатр для просмотра "Преступление и наказание". До сих пор помню мурашки на моей коже.

[@I_love_human_in_world]

Ураааааааа, русский, я смог найти хоть одного

[@johnbroadway4196]

Thank you. Hearing this short biography gives me a spirit to continue my writing.

[@sesh7357]

Thanks for this upload. Largely conforms to my own personal understanding of Dostoevsky. It is very reassuring!

[@emmarichardson3810]

Thanks!

[@annadudekmill5043]

Dostoyevsky was Orthodox Christian and very religious! Not ambivalent

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thank you for the comment.

[@lonelycubicle]

Dostoyevsky is great critiquing/ dramatizing current thought/philosophy of his day in favor of religion, but would like to know how he responded to traditional critiques of religion like the problem of evil.

[@georgesantana2503]

@@lonelycubicle is this a serious comment?

[@lonelycubicle]

@@georgesantana2503 Yes, sorry if sounded unserious. Did Dostoyevsky write how he answered traditional critiques of religion (outside of novels)? I just picked that one example since it’s a harder one to answer.

[@Igor-my6ml]

@@lonelycubicle The main theme of his perception of evil is that evil in this world has a better chance of success and that evil people achieve that success to the detriment of good people. He believed that good people were embedded in the foundations of the world as evil climbed over their corpses. And as an Orthodox Christian, he believed that justice would eventually be served in the final judgment.

[@HariPrasad-wj7lz]

Thanks

[@user05_22qw]

I truly wish, there's no background music added. So distracting 😢 I love this channel.

[@danieldelger2434]

Brothers Karamazov seems very moral/religious. Dostoyevsky wanted to not tip his hand;he stood outside or championed either opinion. He was a critic of all except he venerated honest true people. He venerated belief not the mechanism. About addiction he struggled and mostly lost to gambling. Does this not prove he knew humanity and in the end was most human. He demands a lot from his reader and in exchange gives them much to think about and find within themselves. He is my favorite. Thanks for this video.

[@Fiction_Beast]

I agree. Dostoevsky understood humans very deeply, so I also love his work.

[@EmilynWood]

I took a Dostoyevsky class and we learned a lot about Dostoyevsky's life and worldview as we read different novels of his. He came from a Russian Orthodox family, and when he was in prison, the only book available to him was a New Testament Bible. Joseph Frank's biography says his Christian faith was strengthened in this time. Dostoyevsky himself said, and here is a quote from The Writer's Diary: “I accepted Christ in my life, whom I got to know as a child in my parent’s house and whom I have almost lost, when I in turn became a European liberal.” Many of the Dostoyevsky quotes in this video are out of context, spoken by his characters and not by himself, though they are good quotes by themselves too.

[@Fiction_Beast]

I don't know for sure if he was religious or not. I don't think anyone knows that for sure. My definition of being religious is not being born in an Orthodox family or country, but a firm belief. My analysis is purely based on his novels. To give you an example, Brothers Karamazov makes it quite clear that Dostoevsky was ambiguous about religion. He had deep doubts, but what Dostoesvky was more doubtful was western ideiolgoies (rationalism, utilitarianism and socialism), therefore he focused on exposing them. Thank you for watching to my video.

[@heekyungkim8147]

@@Fiction_Beast good point

[@alexk48]

@@Fiction_Beast The quote above should settle that question for you. His characters being ambivalent about religion are more likely commentary about his own journey as well as the quandary foisted on Europeans by the enlightenment. Again, the above quote from his diary should settle the question as to whether he was religious. The words of his characters are not autobiographical they are his observations about the time he lived in and may reflect the questions he struggled with prior to accepting Christ.

[@danielosetromera2090]

@@Fiction_Beast In The Brothers Karamazov, belief ultimately triumphs over everything else. He struggled with doubt, but he ultimately chose to follow Christ and believe in him as the son of God. I´m sorry you´re probably disappointed that one of the best novelists of all time was a devout christian, but that´s the hard, inescapable truth.

[@TheNabOwnzz]

@@Fiction_Beast Karamazov wasn't ambiguous about religion at all, lmao. How could anyone think that? Because of the Grand Inquisitor chapter? That was a diatribe against Catholicism; it's known Dostoevsky hated that. But Karamazov is clearly pro orthodoxy. Especially Ivan's arc makes this abundantly clear.

[@Dusan_Zdravkovic]

Self-knowledge is the easiest thing, but self-acceptance... totally different.

[@kimberlysamuels9971]

Really enjoyed this and appreciate the time and effort spent in creating your graphics and oral presentation. Thank you. I am inspired to read Dostoevsky….have never read his books but have heard commentary. I am interested to see if I come to the same conclusion regarding his religious belief. My hope is that he sits in that place called “faith and reason.”

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thank you for the beautiful comment. He was a genius and still talking to us 150 years later.

[@Serendipity-gj2me]

Excellent video from a fan and ardent admirer of Fyodor Dostoevsky! Thank you!

[@Fiction_Beast]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@maryho7487]

I enjoy this program very much,please keep this good work coming ! Thank you !

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thanks, will do!

[@kayo5011]

4:18 that quote is straight fire 🔥

[@bonjour7325]

Thanks for this video :) greetings from Germany

[@Fiction_Beast]

Danke! I'm glad you enjoyed or learnt something from the video!

[@HarryandMathilde]

Your channel is a refuge. Thank you.

[@Fiction_Beast]

So nice of you

[@psyience3213]

Crime and punishment is an amazing book. Amazing insight into the human condition and experience. It’s my favorite book of all time

[@MrMattirving]

While looking for some background on Notes from the Underground , the algorithms served up your take on Dostoevsky. An off the cuff remark in a Jordan Peterson interview prompted me to search out Dostoevsky's book on existentialism and, although hard going at times, it is proving to be somewhat of a 'black mirror' into past and present parts of my own life. An interesting experience! It really goes to show how human consciousness is an unchanging constant that bears witness to an ever-changing world.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Yes I agree, we haave not changed on a fundamental subconscious level. Reading most of his novels, I think Dostoevsky understood humans better than most psychologists.

[@voskreglavincevska3651]

Yes , ever- changing World but not people ! This planet have spendable abilities ! We are using this planet ! Everithing is spenable and with the end ! There is stagnation not progresion in humans behavior because we are not conscious for that spending of the Planet !

[@debanjanchowdhury4397]

Absolutely remarkable amd enthralling. I habe red Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and Nites from underground. I am completely blown away by his profound analysis of human psychology, it's hugely fascinating. He discovered and ventured the most dark amd gloomy part of human mind in a way that it reminds us all the time why we must observe ourselves and we must have to forgive ourselves at some point because too much stringent approach to oneself can be laden and it will flatten you in ground. You should have to capable enough to forgive yourself knowing all the sins and misdeeds and strive for nobility and integrity. I am reading Brothers Of Karamazov and ufff riveting and fabulous. Candidly I am loving this more than the two previous one. He will be one of the greatest teacher of life.

[@AmanSingh-mv2lx]

Thank you for your Hardwork and Uploading it on KZbin.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thanks for listening

[@maryho7487]

I enjoy the lecture thoroughly. Please keep posting more! Thanks ! 🤗🤗👍🏻🙏

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thank you, we will

[@girlfriday1299]

This was excellent! A great way to start the day! Thank you!

[@languagetv4756]

My favorite writer of all time

[@wesgrendo]

I learned something by listening to your summary of F.D., so thank you! I had to look away from the visual because I felt a seizure coming caused by the 18 minutes of rapid hand movements that comprise your video.

[@hasibultopu3155]

Thank you so so much for your tremendous content. Last week I read the "Brothers Karamazov" and it was BANGLA language. If I were to know his work some years before. It'll be much better to know meaning of life and the important its. Thank you, actually you deserve much more better And yeah!! Also Kafka is awesome just awesome

[@Fiction_Beast]

Really wonderful to read you comment. Thank you!

[@hasibultopu3155]

@@Fiction_Beast ❤️

[@Coelom-m3e]

​@@hasibultopu3155kothay pelen bangla te?

[@amss6433]

Dostoyevsky what a man he was.The intensity and ideas he brought makes him not the greatest Russian novelist but greatest of all time

[@jitinninan5932]

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was genius in both Philosophy and in Psychology. If there is time machine invention, I would have met him and I will ask him for his advice for everything. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky is my most favorite writer.

[@Milan19477]

This is my favorite channel here, thank you for your videos!

[@livinginitaly16years80]

I recently saw some interviews with Russian Rebel fighters in the donbass they all talked about poems they write and have written , alot live with Great hardship especially many elderly women they interview Who live on thir own in the destroyed donbass region

[@hopefortheworld5296]

Blessings to those people

[@drijazdurrani]

Fyodor Dostoevsky was a gift of God!! Fictional Beast remains a lovable character!!

[@santa4754]

Such a fascinated content. Thanks a bunch!

[@Fiction_Beast]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@hadivafaei4008]

I indeed enjoyed this video. You selected some rational and emotional lines on balance

[@yoda74lol]

good day to you! I've just discovered your channel. I'm a philosophy, politics and ethics student living in the UK and have struggled to connect with literature to a point which I am happy with - I always think I do not read enough, or even if I do, I will never understand the text as others do. one of the modules I do is called Philosophy and Literature, in which we have recently looked at Dostoevsky, Camus and more recently Garcia Marquez - I'm sure you see the connection here, in existentialisms - and your video on pedro paramo really pulled me in. it's possibly the last novel I read before coming to university, and I've come to understand the subversive power of magical realism and indeed literature that compartmentalises the philosophy of existence into a parable such as The Outsider or The Alchemist or that sort of thing. anyway, I wanted to say that I really like your channel. I'll be coming back to you, I can guarantee that, and not just when I need help preparing for seminars. your videos are well-made, but for me what matters is your intention and the implications of your content for a world of literature that is not anglocentric, for once. This is the first time I've found a channel about literature that I like. thank you. I'm very excited to delve deeper into your channel, learn more about your views and the things you read... I'm a bit giddy! thank you for your content. it has made my day.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thank you so much for a such detailed comment. I’m so glad you found my videos enjoyable.

[@lucillesantos9600]

Mm

[@thecrimsondragon9744]

Good video. I prefer without music or lower volume music in the background as it's quite distracting when the music is loud. Otherwise, great work as always 👍

[@Fiction_Beast]

Yes, I put my hands up the music was a mistake. I have already adressed it in my newer video. Really appreciate your feedback.

[@Pablo98145]

Agree.. Couldn't Watch.

[@angel-_-_-_]

the background music is obnoxiously bad and not suitable for this video

[@shanemintun]

Yes

[@adegboladeadebote754]

dont get bogged down by genre, focus instead on story... Love it!

[@laylaloussi2437]

Thank you for the rich content, please do more videos like this❤️

[@Fiction_Beast]

You got it! Any particular author you're interested in?

[@laylaloussi2437]

@@Fiction_Beast Charles Bukowski and his famous philosophy of " don't try ", it may be very informative if you can elaborate his moto

[@Fiction_Beast]

@@laylaloussi2437 Thank you for the suggestion. Actually I've been reading Bukowski for the past few days. So a video is coming in the coming weeks. You might like to watch my video on Proust and Kafka in the meantime, if you havent already.

[@laylaloussi2437]

@@Fiction_Beast I've already seen your videos about Kafka and Murakami, they are well done! thank you for your efforts, I'm looking forward for your next ones :) I highly recommend you to read " Ham on rye " it's a semi biographical novel by Bukowski, he opened up about his childhood traumatic experiences and his struggles with his tyrannical father

[@Fiction_Beast]

I’m on it. Thanks so much!

[@RobertHeathfield]

Thanks for making this. It requires more thought from me ❤

[@suruchijoshi7991]

Reading Crime and Punishment, and here I discovered your video. Totally on point, thanku.❤️

[@Fiction_Beast]

Awesome.

[@23ONEILL1]

Great video. Thank you.

[@ovariantrolley2327]

fantastic. but i disagree with the one on not dreaming too big. i think rather that your dreams should match how big you think. If i feel there is something important that needs to be done, you should do it regardless of its size. If i have a big, recurring dream, but listen to dostoy and shrink it, i will lose my motivation and not even have the energy to achieve the small thing. at the same time, we should not have a big dream for the sake of a 'big dream', it should come naturally from what we want to solve. what worries us and what is a 'fit' for us. this also requires self knowledge and ' a tender feeling for your own feelings'.

[@QueenLover-j5i]

By YouSum Live 00:02:06 Self-knowledge is essential for understanding and preventing mistakes. 00:03:21 Dreaming big can lead to isolation, envy, and suffering. 00:04:50 Suffering is intrinsic to human intelligence and emotional depth. 00:06:03 Rationality alone does not guarantee happiness or fulfillment. 00:08:00 Embrace simplicity and avoid overthinking for mental well-being. 00:09:07 Humans possess both good and evil, challenging moral clarity. 00:10:22 Individual responsibility is key to finding meaning and respect. 00:11:43 Judge people by their aspirations, not their current state. By YouSum Live

[@balakrishnanm3656]

He belongs to the community of novelists who provoke people in to thinking while enjoying the story. His novels have the magic to glue the reader to his novel ,and what more, spur him to login into another of his .

[@jvs333]

Wow glad I stumbled onto this.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thank you!

[@zlvirag]

The current pandemic and my tender age of 75, gave me a chance to do traditional Hungarian cooking: practice Pacific North West Art(Heida, etc.), and read the works of the greatest Russian authors of all time. I am leaning towards Dostoevsky. Thanks for this.

[@Fiction_Beast]

I’m honored to have you watching my video. I’m also deeply into Dostoevsky and his works. Currently reading notes from underground so will make a video soon.

[@voskreglavincevska3651]

I almost fogot everithing ,and I must start reading Dostoevski from this perspective now ! I remember that we hardly worked at school on the personal caracteristic of people discribed . For me ( as a person from the socialistic time) is very great his anticipation on caracteristic of Nechaev , and what hapened with Socialism ! His plan ( Načaev's ) how to make revolution by "descent" liders ,who will persue ordinary masess on hard discipline by self behavior of the liders as minority ! But the liders (who are anouced as important are hiden group because are imaginable )! The people who are planing the revolution and hiding The Commity , must remain the liders after revolution and take priveledge , not masess! From that time I am very modest person and I am asking myself why socialism failed and how Dostoevski could have known people's perspective in Socialism ? This pandemic is not ending , and it will give a good lesons to people who are thinking that they must be liders as a God given option, to be the best and have everithing ! Are we going to stop progresion on development , which is ruining the planet ?

[@ManuLuck82]

I love Hungarian cooking 👍 which plates/dishes?

[@ilprimo81]

Very well put together 👍

[@FarshadTorkashvand]

Such a shame that I didn't study Dostoevsky's Novels more, as I see here. When I wrote my novel, I used lesson four for my plot, without knowing that someone had brought up it before. The main character of my Novel, that was a mathematical genius, thought that if he followed the most logical pathway in his life, he would suffer less in life. However, in three chapters, I showed how ridiculous that way of thinking is.

[@MlewIs-qr5ot]

You wrote Novel?...What is name of Novel you wrote?

[@FarshadTorkashvand]

@@MlewIs-qr5ot Thanks for the interest. The name of the book is "Into the Embrace of Love."

[@shradhabohidar2907]

Great work fiction beast....worthwatching

[@glikiespenies]

Excellent presentation at all levels.Thank you so much.

[@Fiction_Beast]

I really appreciate the comment. Thank you!

[@MeridiusMaximus]

Thank you. Beautifully done.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thank you too!

[@archorg8]

His novel "The Possessed" or "The Devils" is spot on today. A novel about all manner of political fools and their pretentious and evil motivations.

[@Fiction_Beast]

i discussed it here.

[@ameliarose6833]

Love your videos, it is life transforming. Thank you very much.

[@Fiction_Beast]

You are so welcome!

[@lpmuzza3274]

Ditch the music 😅

[@BirchleighYT]

So out of pocket... But I agree 🤣

[@laxminagh0916]

First time I am listening him good information. For all the human being.

[@patrickfarley8036]

Excellent video on many levels!👏👏👏 As food for thought, I would like to comment on the last point, religious or not. I would say he was religious, to his own personal quest in finding a living "God" in himself and each other! That fact that he spent his entire life on this quest and never ceasing makes it "religious", therefore, he was religious! A devoute Christian or Jew, etc.? No. Not religious in that regard. But certainly not unaware of the teachings of the Old and New Testaments with a deeply profound understanding of the great depth of human behavior( s ) woven into every passage of the Bible, most notably those of Christ Jesus. And the God Is Dead reference is actually a Nietzsche, but Dostoevsky did also speak strongly about the govt and upper classes forcing a wedge between God and the masses much like what is going on around the world now in 2021, including the US and Canada, England, France. Now with anti Christs in power of those countries, God may soon be dead worldwide!

[@Fiction_Beast]

Excellent comment. I agree he was not religious in a traditional sense of being a member of a particular church. But his quest was a a spiritual one. Looking for some meaning in the vacuum as old religious explanations of the world no longer seemed convincing in the face of many scientific discoveries. For him it was meaning and then happiness in life that mattered. He thought science couldn’t answer those questions. As for god is dead is a Nietzsche quote but the concept did exist prior to Nietzsche. He simply coined the term. Dostoevsky was responding to the enlightenment movement and mainly utilitarians and rationalist who had assumed the death of god and we’re trying to find alternative moral framework. I enjoyed reading your comment.

[@alexk48]

@@Fiction_Beast What makes you so sure he was not religious in the traditional sense? Not Russian Orthodox? Do you think you may br projecting? Creating a Dostoyevsky in your own image and likeness?

[@madcyborg1822]

Wrong, Dostoyevsky literally looked at everything from an Orthodox Christian perspective. He was an anti-religious revolutionary in his younger days, but then he discovered Christ again. He even said that if Christ did not exist, he would still believe in him. In his writings and quotes he constantly critiqued and showed how foolish other religions and atheism are. Only Orthodox Christianity is the complete way to life. And no amount of obtuse anti-religious misrepresentation you try to apply to him, he was always openly a very strict and hardcore ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN. "Between (your) truth and God, I choose God" - Dostoyevsky.

[@English-Teacher5]

Loved it. Keep making such videos. Appreciate and completely loved to watch. 😍🥰

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thank you so much 🤗

[@joshuastevens6734]

He understands what it means to be human - that's all i have to say.

[@kazimierzgaska5304]

Living nowadays he would support that bloody Putler's war against Ukrainian nation. He was Russian chauvinist, just like Pushkin, Gogol or Solzhenitsyn!

[@Bretlu2010]

Great content, appauling choice of music. What was the motivation behind that generic 'call 1-800...' soundtrack when covering subjects on labour and death? You'd think given the tone, it should be something along the lines of Tchaikovsky's Marche Slave

[@riskisourmotive775]

Nice to know there is someone really care about book and authors I will support u and u should do the same gd luck

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thank you!

[@moncyjoseph2465]

@@Fiction_Beast ❤

[@rossgopicotrain4042]

Excellent presentation of Dostoevsky and concomitant lessons to be learned whilst reading said novelist's works. However, one aspect of Dostoevsky's works that appears to be overlooked and, thereby, ignored by those who study, analyze and read said author's art is the concept of the polyphonic novel {i.e., a novel which enables multiple voices to express themselves in a unique, interesting and authentic way (please refer to Mikhail Bakhtin's, 'The Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics')}; an idea that Dostoevsky was the first to fully flesh out in each of his novels. RGB-Y3 out!!!

[@RTC1655]

Dostoevsky - the Greatest!

[@adeppacademy3869]

Very nice commentary.. thank you very much 😊🙏

[@Fiction_Beast]

Most welcome 😊

[@ronda5558]

Why does this visual always show a hand constantly scribbling?

[@alanab9674]

Synchronized reason and emotion leads to a more fulfilled life. A worthwhile endeavor.

[@brambes7110]

I don't know if you can call Dostoevsky ambivalent in relation to sceince and religion. It seems to me he would pick religion over sceince. But he surely wasn't blind to eithers benefit and failure. He saw the short comings of religion, particularly that of Christendom, and wasn't making any excuses for it.

[@Fiction_Beast]

I tend to agree with you on Dostoesvky's leaning more towards religion but also more on simplicity of life. I'm working on his big ass novel Brothers Karamzov so have plenty to discuss there.

[@volkanunal5448]

@@Fiction_Beast Absolutely right. F.M. Dostoyevsky tending more toward original orthodox religion and simplicity of living. But Karamazov Brothers is the second hardest novel to read in history of world literature.

[@bobtim1008]

He was an orthodox Christian

[@markrobbins1878]

My only hope is that one day the self-writing whiteboards will go the way of the tag

[@Gaonaism]

For the love of God, please shut that horrendous background instrumental off. Otherwise, great video.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Apologies for that. Unfortunately I can’t edit that out now. KZbin lets me erase the sound completely which will make the video pointless. Lesson learnt for future videos.

[@Gaonaism]

@@Fiction_Beast that's the only critique I have of the video. Thanks for responding. I subbed.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Really appreciate your feedback. I have taken steps to ensure future videos have better quality sound. I totally agree with your criticism. You live and learn.

[@Gaonaism]

@@Fiction_Beast I'll keep an eye out for your future videos 🙏

[@velocitor3792]

This was very well thought out.

[@rockandfkingroll7464]

We must remember Dostoevsky was a royalist, a conservative, on the side of the church and so on. But he sure could write a story. And he was mostly fair in his writing usually until the end. :) My favorite is The Idiot. Actually, The Liberal. He was much the antithesis to Darwin and Marx who were changing the world of his time.

[@jonnygibs77]

The genius of his art comes from his ability through suffering to rise above sects, labels, doctrines etc etc - so your judgement of him as this that or the other just exposes your own preferences of what is good/bad etc...

[@denisgeorgiev376]

You saying it as if the first 3 were a bad thing lol

[@rrickard2874]

The simplicity of keeping a clean room, for a better life overall, is greatly understated.

[@ashkankrj9515]

Best writer ever ❤👍

[@Fiction_Beast]

Agree.

[@FarahRafiqa6]

Ok 👌 this is a gem 💎. Thanks 👍 for this.

[@debbieparenti3998]

Spiritually minded people tend to ask a lot of questions. They generally don't accept relgious dogma at face value, but dig deeper. The spiritual quest had it's highs and lows. Finding the truth is a journey and is not easy, but worth the effort. Dostoevsky definently dug deep.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Perfectly put. Thanks for stopping by.

[@oc2538]

I have to read the Brothers Karamazov. Thanks for the upload. 🙏🧿

[@paulrowe9022]

Awesome video. When/where does Dostoevsky write "if you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself"?

[@Fiction_Beast]

Sorry I didnt notice this comment as i answered your other comment. The quote comes from Dostoevsky's novel, The Devils (or Possessed).

[@paulrowe9022]

@@Fiction_Beast Thank you!