Why You Should Read "White Nights" by Dostoyevsky

[@k9burnouts544]

I love that story . Nobody in it is "wrong". We are all just blindly struggling along, you know, trying, my God we try!

[@haniulga9486]

The way the man talked to Nastenka was not an exaggeration, but it was his way of healing himself from long time of loneliness.. Good video!

[@fidesedquivide3486]

Read this book during years of innocence, understood little. Thanks for your work 🙏.

[@shaww8721]

bought and read this book off those first few minutes. incredible book, trying to get back into reading after many years of not (i am 16 years old) and this is my second book after blood meridian. thank you, and excellent video.

[@muthuveljothi4619]

Very skillfully narrated❤

[@safahabelhames7515]

I love how soothing this video was! it made me want to read more works to Dostoevsky from before his imprisonment! Thank you for the review!

[@YigitTuncer22]

This was a great summary and breakdown of the book, thank you for your work.

[@divad7137]

If I was to summarise this book, this is basically the narrator getting brutally friendzoned 😭😭. I really enjoyed it though, it was a very beautiful book.

[@pc3666]

It’s so emotional!

[@skrudola]

Great narration by you, simple and serious

[@johnsonjon8034]

Man you are awesome to deliver white Night so well, god bless you

[@trenthill7781]

So, even if you get friend zoned, remember the good times? Amazing video btw.

[@kerlongatuno5842]

The quality of this video is outstanding, I can't understand why this channel hasn't gone viral yet

[@garrettc1585]

Beautful video, Please keep making them!

[@alexisnicolaou15]

This channel deserves more subscribers, great video.

[@lobo6615]

Wow 🤩 incredible. You should do an audiobook on white Nights,love your voice, I will definitely listen to it.

[@pagetears7280]

I intend to do much more audio content in the future! A full reproduction of white nights (or other dostoyevsky works) is certainly in the cards.

[@mynameised2175]

Please do

[@jay-rg5ym]

great video my man! loved your insights on the book!

[@r.w.bottorff7735]

Great video, thank you! I agree with you. Gogol's language is vital, and as you point out, reached Dostoyevsky before Siberia.

[@CHINO0097]

Great video! Just discovered your channel tonight. I really enjoy your style!

[@pagetears7280]

Thanks and welcome!

[@علي-ت5ث7س]

Thank you for your great work

[@peterbelmonte6718]

Thank you so much for making this video. I just finished the book for my first time before finding this video; perfect summary and analysis. Something you said about this being 32 years before Brothers Karamazov that I didn’t quite catch Do you have any videos on that novel? Again thank you 🙏

[@pagetears7280]

Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it. The Brothers Karamazov is one of the last things Dostoevsky wrote before his death. It is, in my opinion, his greatest work. I do not currently have a full video on it, but have one planned in the far future. I mention it briefly in my short video called "On Perspective," but that is it for now. It is a very complex book, and will take a lot of research to do justice. In the mean time Edward Wasiolek's book "The Brothers Karamazov and the Critics" is an excellent review if you are looking for scholarly criticism of the text. Wasiolek is one of the most well- respected Scholars on Russian literature.

[@noirodex]

Good video

[@unit1pirate380]

SPOILERS: although it may feel cliched by some readers who typically try to predict the ending... the story knows how to subvert your expectations from: 1.) Grandmother alludes to how The Young Man *would* treat Nastenka and how she will feel 2.) When Nastenka experiences every word her Grandmother, we the reader assumes that Grandmother was right about the Young Man, this false sense of affirmation about him makes us believe that Nastenka and the Narrator/Dreamer would be endgame 3.) Only when the plans were set and all ethical problems were cleared, did the Young Man arrive and take our hopes for the Narrator, but we feel somewhat happy for Nastenka. We were proven wrong about him. It was hope when you least expect it the most, but for us, it was pain that was noble and kind.

[@pon1952leod]

🥰

[@smitasitara]

Very nice commentary but would have liked a little more analysis.

[@pagetears7280]

An understandable wish. If you are interested @hippiasminor6264 has a full length audiobook with more analysis than I put in!