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Man, your content is amazingly absurd. The quality exceeds itself everytime! Thank you for this, and for every other video on these insane writers as well. Greetings from Brazil. We really need deeper dives on what real literature and art feels like.

@Fiction_Beast

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Wow, thanks!

Very well done. I’ve always thought Dickens’ writing felt like one’s closest friend talking to you.

@Fiction_Beast

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Wow, thank you!

Excellent work, learning lots, many thanks 👍

Matt you’ve got me excited now ❤️🙏

Brilliant analysis of 2 very different human worlds who tell stories from very different perspectives and scales! And to think both admired Hugo! Great stuff! Please throw Sam Clemens in the mix, especially against these two titans! Thanks for making learning so deeply enjoyable!

@lnt8907

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Tolstoy did not admire Hugo until the end of his life. M. Gorky recalled Tolstoy's words: "Hugo is different. I don't like him - a screamer" Gorky also recalled Tolstoy's top three French writers: "The French have three writers: Stendhal, Balzac and Flaubert, well, Maupassant, but Chekhov is better than him"

@BrightGarlick

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@@lnt8907 that's certainly a shame and Tolstoy's loss!

@Fiction_Beast

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Thank you very much!

You are so brilliant. Thoroughly enjoying these literature videos 😀

@Fiction_Beast

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Thank you!

Well research and beautifully presented ♥️

@Fiction_Beast

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Thanks!

Thank you. What you are doing is appreciated. It makes life enjoyable. It’s so interesting to learn about the human conditions through different eyes. It’s definitely need.

Enjoyed a lot ❤️

Many thanks for your wonderful posts!!!! P.x

Probably your best work. Well done.

Keep them coming man...

Really enjoying this

@Fiction_Beast

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Thanks!

Well done!

Brilliant 🔥

This is great. Thanks.

@Fiction_Beast

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You're welcome!

Very interesting lecture, inspiration for me to read more on Dickens. Do you have lectures on Norwegian writers as Knut Hamsun?

33:49 Yes India reads Dickens .. Christmas Carol and David Copperfield are prescribed in school syllabus . Tagore's English translations are read more widely in India than in his first language of creation i.e Bengali .

@Fiction_Beast

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Thank you! I thought so.

Hi! Can you make a video about Akutagawa, please? After read Hell's Screen and Rashomon, I felt in love with his style, but I can't found a video on YT that talk about him and his crafts.

@Fiction_Beast

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Great suggestion.

8:48 Tolstoy, after his spiritual upheaval, ceased to lean from the nihilism of Schopenhauer to his own religion. We see this in his work of confession in chapter 8.

@lnt8907

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in fact, the question of a Tolstoy nihilist is very complicated, because Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov writes in his work “Tolstoy, Chekhov, Lenin”: “I am deeply convinced that, in addition to everything he says, he still says a lot to himself, as well two notebook diaries, which he gave me and L. A. Sulerzhitsky for reading; it seemed to me the negation of all beliefs - the deepest and worst nihilism, which grew out of the soil of endless despair and loneliness.in fact, this may not be true.

I find Dickinson characters do evolve in general as evidenced by the changes that Mr Scrooge, Pip, Stella, Oliver Twist and many others underwent. There was misery but also hope that the industrial revolution brought. Really enjoyed, thanks.

@prasoonjha1816

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*Dickens'

@Fiction_Beast

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Great point. I made too many general points but yes, but both are great novelists.

Who else falls asleep in the middle of the video and has, always, to watch the live again 😂. LAZY STUDENT 😅.

@Fiction_Beast

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Lol

Great video as always. In regards to reading Dickens, should one start from Pickwick Papers and go through chronologically, or select his classics freely?

@Fiction_Beast

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Read freely.

You can’t simplify Dickens books by calling them fairytales. While his storytelling had a fantasy element, he was using the fantasy to make a larger point. Dickens was writing about the British class system and the social conditions of the poor in the mid to late 19th century. He was a ‘trailblazer’ during his time. Prior to him there weren’t English social protest novels.

This is definitely documentary level quality. In terms of writing style, I prefer Dickens, but when it comes to morals and themes, Tolstoy is the master.

@Fiction_Beast

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Appreciate it.

@fhilbo1701

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Writing style? So you read Tolstoy in the original Russian then?

@batman5224

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@@fhilbo1701 One can get a sense of an author’s style in a good translation, even if it is watered down.

Please do Hemingway! If you liked Fitzgeralds work, I know you’ll eat up Hemingway. In my opinion, For Whom the Bell Tolls and the Sun Also Rises are his best works. Although Sun doesn’t hit you until the last pages.

@Fiction_Beast

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I loved his old man and the sea

Oh wow. Both answers are correct.

Personally, I don’t think you can get better than Dickens. The animated characters, the uplifting themes, and the aspirational outlook on life. Tolstoy is a bored rich kid and Dickens the poor boy with a pep to his walk. Dickens hands down.

@lnt8907

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>Tolstoy is a bored rich kid))))) Lmao.

@prasoonjha1816

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I have read only "Great Expectations" from Dickens and I still feel he is the greatest!

@Holmnielsen-

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@@prasoonjha1816 it was good! A bit long imo

But who has time to read Tolstoy? Books were written for the unemployed or maybe wealthy aristocrats. People with the time to read 1200 pages. Way too long. Dickens is the one.

@vanishing_girl

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Tolstoy only has one book over 1000 pages (W&P) one book about 900 pages (Anna Karenina). Resurrection is about 600 pages long. His nine other novels are all less than 200 pages. Dickens has 8 books over 800 pages, 10 over 600 pages, with Bleak House and Little Dorit both being over 1000 pages. Dickens has 20 novel/novellas and Tolstoy only has 12 novels/novellas. It takes way more time to read through Dickens than Tolstoy.

Clash of titans.

Dicstoy is infinitely superior to Tolkens.

Neither. Purveyors of sentimental melodramas.

Read Dickens ' books at Young age, read Tolstoy 's books at middle age, will have better understanding of all these books. After all, at old age, you will realize that your life stories are more realistic and dramatic than all these books.