Read like Dostoevsky | Dostoevsky's favorite books

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3 жыл бұрын

Have you ever wondered what your favorite authors read?
I have, so I spent the past few months reading some of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s favorite books. He loved reading, but since he moved a lot, and his stepson didn't keep his promise to keep his library intact, I had to work with what we have, mostly with Anna Grigorievna's list.
I finally fell in love with Balzac, and I finally one of the famous “positively beautiful figures”, Don Quixote.
Here’s the list with the books and authors mentioned in the video (including Dostoevsky’s):
1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
2. A Novel in Nine Letters by Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. Humiliated and Insulted by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. The Writer’s Diary by Fyodor Dostoevsky
6. One Hundred and Four Sacred Stories from the Old and New Testaments
7. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
8. Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott
9. The Monastery by Sir Walter Scott
10. Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
11. St Ronan's Well by Sir Walter Scott
12. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
13. Netochka Nezvanova by Fyodor Dostoevsky
14. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens
15. The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
16. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
17. The mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
18. The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
19. The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by E. T. A. Hoffmann
20. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
21. Little Zaches by E. T. A. Hoffmann
22. The Golden Pot by E. T. A. Hoffmann
23. Edgar Allan Poe
24. The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
25. The Robbers by Friedrich von Schiller
26. Don Carlos by Friedrich von Schiller
27. Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoevsky
28. Mary Stuart by Friedrich von Schiller
29. Boris Godunov by Alexander Pushkin
30. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
31. Reineke Fuchs by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (The story of Reynard the Fox)
32. The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky
33. The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoevsky
34. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
35. La dernière Aldini by George Sand
36. The Uscoque by George Sand
37. Jeanne by George Sand
38. La Marquise by George Sand
39. Lucrezia Floriani by George Sand
40. Spiridion by George Sand
41. Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
42. Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac
43. The Wild Ass's Skin by Honoré de Balzac
44. Pere Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
45. The Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo
46. Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
47. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
48. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
49. Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
50. A Gentle Creature by Fyodor Dostoevsky
51. The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky
52. The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut by Antoine François Prévost
53. The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
54. La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils
55. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
56. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
57. Eugène Sue
58. Charles Nodier
59. Frédéric Soulié
60. Charles Paul de Kock
61. The Village of Stepanchikovo by Fyodor Dostoevsky
62. Ronsard
63. Malherbe
64. Phèdre by Jean Racine
65. Iphigénie by Jean Racine
66. Le Cid by Pierre Corneille
67. Cinna by Pierre Corneille
68. William Shakespeare (Hamlet, Othello)
69. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
70. Voltaire (Candide, Micromegas)
71. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (mostly his Confessions, but I talked about Julie and Emile)
72. Denis Diderot (I talked about Jacques, the Fatalist)
73. Dante’s Divine Comedy
74. The Iliad by Homer
75. Thucydides, Tacitus, Pliny, Flavius Josephus, Plutarch, Diodorus Siculus, Herodotus (he was interested in their works)
My playlist on Crime and Punishment
• Crime and Punishment
My playlist on Anna Karenina
• Anna Karenina
My Instagram: / sophiaclef
(for questions and suggestions)
Illustrations by Igor Knyazev
Music
Six Musical Moments, D. 780 - III. Allegro moderato in F minor by Franz Schubert Performed by: Sofja Gülbadamova Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License: creativecommons.org/licenses/...
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Пікірлер: 40

@michaelfourie345 Ай бұрын

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.

@SophiaClef 3 жыл бұрын

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

@leeah8419 3 жыл бұрын

Happy to see you back! 😊

@SophiaClef 3 жыл бұрын

@@leeah8419 thank you!

@jenniferbrooks 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@bcz3534 2 жыл бұрын

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

@kayjones2533 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! ❤️

@TheCodeXCantina 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@Helios601 24 күн бұрын

He also read Anne Radcliffe & Sir Walter Scott

@Barnabas94 2 жыл бұрын

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

@SophiaClef 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@gavinwahl-stephens5121 Жыл бұрын

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."

@ahmedminhal8924 2 жыл бұрын

Would love the second part of this video.

@Rico-Suave_ 3 ай бұрын

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

@3bks 3 жыл бұрын

Yes I'll watch this today!

@SophiaClef 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@me_high97 6 ай бұрын

❤

@ReligionOfSacrifice Жыл бұрын

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.

@attention5638 3 жыл бұрын

"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 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@T_Barrett 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@no._.3894 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@mathewidicula6425 2 жыл бұрын

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

@paulandreigillesania5359 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@paulandreigillesania5359 2 жыл бұрын

@@SophiaClef ooh really now ~

@jimsbooksreadingandstuff 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@jimsbooksreadingandstuff 3 жыл бұрын

@@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 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@yasirquershi3070 Жыл бұрын

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

@nillnick5798 Жыл бұрын

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 3 ай бұрын

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

@god9687 Жыл бұрын

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.