What is the name of this Rilke poem, and did you translate it yourself? My partner is German, and we like to talk about poetry translations because they are especially tricky :) Thank you for another informative video!

Thanks for watching! The poem doesn’t seem to have a title but it was written on new years eve 1913/14 and was translated last year by Will Stone. It’s from Pushkin’s collection Poems to Night - will be talking about the collection on the LPA podcast soon :)

@@TheArtisanGeek thanks for the info! I'll definitely be listening in :)

Ah thank you very much! :D

It does!

I LOVED Don Quixote! It wasn't required reading in my high school, but I read it after high school. And I enjoyed the humor as well in the second half of the book

Tiene una lista de clásicos en español que me pueda dar? Quiero volver a leer en español pero no se por donde empezar😕

These are fairly recent, but a lot of my favorite novels are modern classics from Latin America. Like House of Spirits.

Omg yes I love gothic writing, the picture of Dorian Gray is especially good 😊

Yeah, I really hope that the canon continues to change as it's slowly doing now, with publishers trying to put out more classics from other countries :)

Shirley Jackson is amazing!! I highly recommend her novels "The Haunting of Hill House," "We Have Always Lived in the Castle," and "Hangsaman." :)

The one where the mom is chosen to get murdered by the town? _shudder_ That story was not my cup of tea.

Lottery is an amazing short story! It's one of the short stories that actually got me into the whole category of shorts :))

lmaooo gotcha!!

We had to read Things Fall Apart in high school (U.S) and it was one of the more interesting books we had to read that year

You can also read Atholl Fugard as well. I read him in high school. Even though he’s white he still wrote around black perspective during the apartheid years. The book I read was Boesman and Lena

Try out the poetry of Derek Walcott.

Classics Illustrated? Those comics are the best. They only use actual words from the books so they still maintain the voice of the author. I think those are a great way to get kids excited about old books.

Same, I started with the abridged versions too as a kid and then fell in love with the genre 💫

@@jessaj._.6415 Completely agree!

@@fluffyunicorn57 Plus, the pictures were really well done.

Abridged is the best way to go with some of them, lol.

Thank you Hannah! I'm looking forward to working on it :D

Beyond Sleep recently got translated to the English by Pushkin Press -- I read it as a teenager and really enjoyed it :)

Thank you! :)

Thank you so much!! I'm very excited as well :D

Thanks so much! :D

sure thing! 😊✨

Oh yeah I think someone mentioned as well sellers on Amazon who self-publish public domain literature and botch it.

Thank you, I tried the library, but many here don't keep (many) English titles unfortunately. Fruity Knitting is a great podcast, such high value! :)

Thank you! :D

Frankenstein was the only one for me too haha.

Thank you! :D

Thanks so much for the recommendation, will have to give that a look!

Just read Moon and Sixpence for the first time. I came to him via the short stories. I think he counts as classic.

I remember this ,this was how I read Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Thank you! :D

Thank you! I haven't figured out how, but I'm planning on giving it a go :)

Whaa so kind! :)

agreed. As a black woman as well.

I would never read a book just because it was written by a black person or a woman and I agree a lot of these books written by old white men are really good and have lasted for a reason. But we also cant ignore the historical context that has caused certain authors/ playwrights like Dickens , Shakespeare ,Austen to be so widely read all over the English speaking world, yes there is the fact that these authors wrote genuinely good books/plays but a big part of why Dickens is still read in India , Singapore ,South Africa ,Zimbabwe etc is more about the fact that the British Empire at one point ruled about 24% of the world , this includes the US , most of Africa , India, Pakistan ,Australia and many more . Most of these countries still speak English as the language of the office up to this day . That means for me as a person growing up in an African country which only got independence from the British in the 80s, names like Dickens , Austen and Bronte were way more familiar to me than African authors especially those not from my own country. It also means that when reading European literature I was always more likely to have read English classics than translations of French , Portuguese or Spanish ones. African literature is something I started focusing more on in High School mostly because we were forced to read certain books at school , that's when I discovered Nigerian authors (even though I'm not Nigerian ) ,that's when I first read "Things fall apart" and since then I've tried more and more to read books not only about my own country but also French authors like Guy De Maupassant ,Alexandre Dumas and others. I don t think anyone needs to throw out the traditional classics but its also good to widen our focus.

@@tariromoyo348 i agree with you as well. As with most things, there is nuance.

Bronte even hahah

Bahahah caught red handed huh?!

@@TheArtisanGeek yes but I love Borges and Soseki too. I am a cat is so good!

He was NOT

@@chantellebehrens Thanks! Good to know!

So far I have only read contemporary South Asian books, but one classic that has been on my mind is Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand -- I haven't started it yet, so I unfortunately couldn't give you my opion, sorry!

also - all the swedes keep telling me to read Gösta Berling's Saga by Selma Lagerlöf if you're looking for more nordic authors :)

Hahhaha

That's rather peculiar! I'm actually kind of curious hahah, maybe I'll have a chat with them next time I drop by

I might give that one a go in the future actually :)

Hi! Yeah I mention a couple here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eNZje6-Er664qGg.html

@@TheArtisanGeek thank you so much!!!

Thanks so much for the recommendation!! I'll most certainly have to check them out! :D

@@TheArtisanGeek Yay!! I love to tell people about this publisher, I just think they're neat

I got it off ebay about a year or two ago, turned out I got scammed lmao and it's available on Aliexpress or Yesstyle

I think classics are used in multiple ways besides organisation, some of which can be not very helpful at times.

Hahah lol