Read like Dostoevsky | Dostoevsky's favorite books

[@SophiaClef]

I haven't posted in a while, but I'm still here. I hope you find something new in this video! ❤️

[@leeah8419]

Happy to see you back! 😊

[@SophiaClef]

@@leeah8419 thank you!

[@jenniferbrooks]

His taste was amazing! So glad to hear how much you enjoyed some of these. I’m going to have to boost some of these on my TBR. I’m fascinated by books authors and historical figures read-it gives such a wonderful look into their lives and their actions. Such an amazing video!

[@SophiaClef]

Thank you! It's a fascinating topic and as a bonus you can get some interesting book recommendations. There's no guarantee that you'll enjoy the same books your favorite historical figures did, but it still makes you explore something you would've never thought about.

[@michaelfourie345]

Thank you for making this video. I really enjoyed it...and learned from it. However, you are now responsible for a considerable lengthening of my TBR list. 😊 . I love Dostoyevsky, even more than Don Quixote.

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Glad you're doing okay. What a wonderful project. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes is one of those books that has been on my backlog for well over a decade now.

[@SophiaClef]

Wow! I don't know if it helps but at least in my case it wasn't as difficult as I expected.

[@bcz3534]

Great work! Please continue to share this amazing content. Thank you.

[@gavinwahl-stephens5121]

This might be coincidence, but considering his love for Don Quixote, maybe not. There is a passage in The House of the Dead that was very close to a passage in Don Quixote. HOTD chapter 9 in the bath house they're talking and Baklushin tells Alexandr he was in prison "because I fell in love." Alexandr replies laughing "they don't send people here for that yet". In chapter 22, Don Quixote asks a member of a chain gang what he did to be there. The first person says "Only for being in love." "For that only!" replied the knight. "If they condemn people for being in love, I might have been tugging in the galleys long ago."

[@ReligionOfSacrifice]

I want to read "Boris Godunov" by Alexander Pushkin and "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert already, but now I am going to have to read "The Last Day of a Condemned Man" by Victor Hugo. I like your idea of finding works to read based on what an author you like enjoyed. The reason is George Eliot liked "Vilette" by Charlotte Bronte the best, so I tried it and now it is the only female author to have a book (that one) on the top ten books I've ever read.

[@Rico-Suave_]

Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 32:44

[@kayjones2533]

Lovely to see you. This was wonderful. I love reading books knowing that a favourite author also read and admired those exact words. I have added a few recommendations to my shopping list. Thank you, this was a perfect start to my day x

[@SophiaClef]

You're welcome! ❤️

[@attention5638]

"The Italian" is the only Radcliffe novel I have read, but it is a good one for sure. A lot of research must have gone into this, there is so much I didn't know inspired him. This added a lot to my TBR. I have yet to read anything of Balzac, but his name is at the top, I just have no idea where to start. I also need to get Dostoevsky's letters. I have never seen them before. "Crime and Punishment" is better than "Les Miserables." In my opinion haha really great video! Would love to see this done with Tolstoy. 😊😊

[@SophiaClef]

When it comes to Balzac, don't read Lost Ilussions or the one about courtesans before Pere Goriot, because they might spoil certain things. There's a character who appears in all of them, so having a context could help. With Tolstoy this video would've taken only a few hours to plan. He wrote a list with recommendations. He loved Trollope and Homer and his favorite Dostoevsky novel was House of the Dead. His library is easier to explore because he was "an influencer" haha and there are so many witnesses who would write about his habits and tastes.

[@Barnabas94]

Wow the quality of your videos and talking points are on point and on some of my favorite authors. Amazing 😊😊

[@SophiaClef]

Thank you!

[@Helios601]

He also read Anne Radcliffe & Sir Walter Scott

[@ahmedminhal8924]

Would love the second part of this video.

[@T_Barrett]

What a delight! What was your opinion on the The Golden Pot? I don't remember how or why, but it's been a book I've been planning to read and your description of "trippy" makes me even more intrigued.

[@SophiaClef]

I'll talk about it in the next wrap-up. It's like a fairytale, but it has some elements from alchemy.

[@paulandreigillesania5359]

I didn't like The Double. But one quote from there will stay as my favorite classic line from any book for the rest of my life: 'Devils breathe in still waters.'

[@SophiaClef]

It's funny because this is a Russian proverb. I love it, though.

[@paulandreigillesania5359]

@@SophiaClef ooh really now ~

[@3bks]

Yes I'll watch this today!

[@SophiaClef]

Thank you!

[@no._.3894]

Hey! I know you've said you have a lot to do at the moment, but I wanted to ask if you know where I could find infos about Gogol's favorite books?

[@SophiaClef]

Hey! I don't have a definite answer, but if I find it, I'll let you know.

[@me_high97]

❤

[@mathewidicula6425]

Put simply beauty will save the world, it will cleanse our spirits to all the Earths unknowing, overwhelming shriek that burden upon us.

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

Interesting video. I can't read Dostoevsky in the original Russian, the translations in English can be a problem. Komei Chukovsky, commenting on Notes from the Underground, wrote "With Constance Garnett it becomes a safe, bland script: not a volcano, but a smooth lawn mowed in the England manner - which is to say a complete distortion of the original."

[@SophiaClef]

Thank you! I wouldn't worry too much about translation. There are quite a lot to choose from.

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

@@SophiaClef I saw with Anna Karenina, there were 10 English Translations (I read the Maude one). I have the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of the Gambler, which I may read soon.

[@EmilynWood]

There is a married couple who have done really good translations of many of the books--Rchard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The Constance Garnett ones are in the public domain, and that is why there may be more editions using that translation.

[@nillnick5798]

I've read a lot of Dostoevsky on the school curriculum and for myself. I am Russian and read in original. In those early years, I did not like Dostoevsky's works. The novel "Idiot" is an attempt to screw into the surrounding space as perfect an image of Christ as possible, which is utter nonsense, and that Dostoevsky himself shows in his novel. In human society, each Christ has his own Golgotha, "Humiliated and Insulted" I could not finish reading, because it's about madness and depression. And again this sweetest image of Jesus, incomprehensible to me and not very pleasant. I liked the "The Double", theme of "little" person is always relevant, of course, it is interesting to look into the head of such people, but here too Dostoevsky brings to the limit, beyond which there is absurdity and madness. Dostoevsky, of course, is an outstanding person and a writer who deeply analyzes the psychotypes of people, their behavior, describing it all in detail. But I don't like this writer. Sorry for my bad English

[@yourhonestly9187]

Nonsense? Jesus Christ is God, God is perfect. Easy

[@yasirquershi3070]

Your face exudes beauty and innocence of your soul.....

[@god9687]

When I say “Dostojevskij” - the sound comes out of my mouth and it hits the other person’s ear, travels through this byzantine conduit in their brain, through their memories of Dostojevskij or lack of Dostojevskij, and they register what I'm saying... and they say yes they understand, but how do I know? Because words are inert. They’re just symbols.

[@wisdomovermoney3394]

Do you think Dostoevsky hated the liberal ideas?

[@seanl6478]

Yes of course he did. Those ideas almost got him executed when he was ~25 yrs old His daughter wrote his biography and in it she says the reason he followed the socialist ideas was because he was floating around without a purpose. He had no direction. He came out of prison with a new purpose in life. So he left all his ideas from when he was younger.