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  @user-vr1uz6sy1j13 сағат бұрын

  Thank you for your efforts.

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  @ShannySumner20 сағат бұрын

  @ 3 Years ago a sweet man sparked my memory about this beautiful book sharing how great it was...I hadn't finished it so i picked it up and it broke my heart!

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  @scottlukert5287Күн бұрын

  Lift

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  @alyson_lupo6 күн бұрын

  I may be wrong but I think this novel was first published on a sunday newspaper, one chapter at a time. Like a show producer who checks numbers for audience, Machado learned from the streets and cafes, in person, how it was going, who it was reaching. That explains the short and catching chapters, and the feminine addressment.

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  @mvbelobelo630318 күн бұрын

  In high school, reading Machado de Assis's books is mandatory. As a teenager I found it very annoying to be forced to read old books to take a test, but in my adult life I reread some of them and it's simply incredible how modern Machado's narrative is for the time. The ironies, the sarcasm, the breaking of the fourth wall that he uses in some of his books. Machado was a black man, stutterer and epileptic in a very prejudiced and backward society. I wonder how this shaped his sense of humor that still works today.

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  @Leino2620 күн бұрын

  One of the best book i have ever read. Good review!.

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  @Leino2620 күн бұрын

  You're the best!!. I have red two more books from Diaz. The last one in Spanish "Negocios" it was okay . Im reading this one now and im like it. I read The Farming of Bones by Danticat . Good book. Keep it going Juan

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  @Vytas.23 күн бұрын

  My second favorite book after Roald Dahl's "The best of". You realize that you begin talking about the book in only second half of the video? Noticing scientists and horses was awesome. In your talk I got afraid that you will never touch it. Not sure what you mean by this video, but it is a start.

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  @Alejandrocasabranca25 күн бұрын

  Vendam todos ao Brasil 😊

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  @stwheel26 күн бұрын

  The Magus is my favourite novel - I have read it twice, and will read it again. I would say you downplay Alison's role a little - she is absolutely critical to the plot, and remains in the shadows throughout, and the fact that her character is not developed in the way you suggest (at 4:22) adds to her mystery and fragility, and the uncertain resolution in the (revised) ending.

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  @SanjeevKumar-hn2ml29 күн бұрын

  Watch anime..it has 10x more crazy plots

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  @carlosmiro4932Ай бұрын

  It so happens that I recently reread" Daisy Miller” and just wrote the final essay assignment for my American Literature class on “Daisy Miller.” I really don’t like her (Daisy Miller the character, not the novella). She’s nothing but a spoiled, entitled brat who is, as Wintervourne and the other expats keep saying, “uncultured” and “vulgar” for the moral standards of the day. She refuses to adjust to the local social customs, and expects they to adjust to her Schenectady/New York social customs. She’s basically en early representation of the Ugly American type. Randolph is even worse, but he’s only nine years old, so I let it slide.

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  @SilviaViolinАй бұрын

  Yes, it‘s an incredible work, my favourite chapter is ‚Schnee‘ absolutely fantastic!

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  @megasalexander927Ай бұрын

  Where are you, Juan?😢

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  @MadDogRyanАй бұрын

  I clicked because I thought it was about wizard but got something far more interesting

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  @johanslabbert2551Ай бұрын

  An incredible book. On so many levels. Unclassifiable. Five stars, whatever that means.

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  @jeffreylough3068Ай бұрын

  Thank you for so many perceptive and well articulated insights into this great novel. A few years since I last read it - time to return to it again.

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  @ryokan9120Ай бұрын

  Hi, you mentioned The Magic Mountain was Thomas Mann's favourite novel. I thought it was Doctor Faustus, though I can't remember where I read that. Do you have a source where Mann actually said that?

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  @marceloalcantara2Ай бұрын

  I just read the novel (Brazilian- Cia das Letras version) I appreciated your video very much! I can even link it to nowadays and the Gaza-Israeli tragedy. What would Roth think about students invasion to Columbia University. 🤨

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  @danallison4138Ай бұрын

  I'm profoundly tired of people in the 2020s - predominantly misanthropes - accusing JK of "misogyny" without reading even one passage as an example of that misogyny. Jack loved every living creature.

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  @viniciusacmauroАй бұрын

  I still fail to see why people think this book is so great. I read comments like "one of the greatest", "best", "incredible"... but this are opinions, not facts.

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  @J-lx1htАй бұрын

  Thanks for sharing this video😊. I've recently read Anne karenine and I loved some elements like the portrayal of Anne while disliking others like Lewis's rural experiences. It's so interesting to learn more about the elements that I disliked and found boring - thanks to this video I still find them a bit annoying, but I see their deeper meaning and can appreciate them more. Anne karenine is such a complex book with so many various themes - I couldn't grasp them all at first and this video enables me to notice more details that I missed and understand the book better

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  @RidleyJonesАй бұрын

  I just finished this today. I found the last few pages unbelievably moving. I also found it interesting how (at least it seemed to me, on an initial reading), the seance unleashed that uneasy spirit of discord that was very much a "time-ghost," paralleling the tensions in Europe eventually leading to WW1. Something about how it was profane and evil to resurrect Joachim's "martial spirit" in such times? Is that a stupid reading?

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  @SmudgieАй бұрын

  I don't want to hear your political preferences, neither do I expect you to condemn other people's. Is there no retreat from this endless virtue signalling? Just review the book.

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  @bjwnashe5589Ай бұрын

  You need the John Woods translation.

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  @sudarsan70192 ай бұрын

  Hello Juan, are you a professor of literature? Just thought of asking cause your reviews are very insightful.

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  @ghawe8442 ай бұрын

  A great and honest review. Everyone seemed to love this book but it just didn't work for me either. The story was interesting but the characters just seemed false to me. The constant conversation about sex, with everyone ,I found tedious., does anyone really have these conversations, even with a nine year old, not in my world. I did laugh at times and really was interested in what would happen next, but glad when I had finished the book.

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  @linaportela2 ай бұрын

  I believe that Bentinho was a tremendously insecure man, bordering on an abusive relationship, not to mention that the book was written by a man in a century where patriarchy reigned. It is very simplistic to think that Capitu cheated.

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  @saravaezi20012 ай бұрын

  I honestly did not understand the whole point. What was the reason for all the mind games? What did these cultish people wanted to achieve?

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  @stwheel26 күн бұрын

  I came away feeling the whole point *was* to be utterly confused by the underlying motivations, and why anyone would go to such lengths to deceive a naive young man.

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  @Bookspine52 ай бұрын

  The Magus ! I have the novel on my book shelf and need to read it. Thanks for the video.

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  @spanishjohn4202 ай бұрын

  started reading it but Hans chats so much crap lmao

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  @anthonycotts24512 ай бұрын

  Thanks for not revealing the ending. I've read it before (and forgotten the ending) and can't wait to get back to it. Thanks for the overview of Conrad's life, and the insights into how he came to be one of the greatest English writers, despite not knowing the English language from birth. Great take!

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  @janedoe89832 ай бұрын

  I really like your channel but find the sound effects distracting. IMHO you don’t need them. Thanks for the info.

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  @paoladiaz16222 ай бұрын

  Love the review! You explained very clearly a lot of things that probably for some people may be a little difficult to understand. Muchas gracias!✨😊

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  @luanrg3 ай бұрын

  I have read partly the English version of The Hour of The Star, and some parts of it seem to lack the depth or edge conveyed in Portuguese. Translation does that sometimes and it is such a pity. Clarice's translated works should come with a whole bunch of footnotes so that foreign readers could grasp a bit more of the author's choices, social context and so on.

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  @zeeggyMczeegs3 ай бұрын

  Great analysis

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  @annehayward26863 ай бұрын

  ThANK YOU SO MUCH :)

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  @Aleksaan3 ай бұрын

  the unligthed point: Devil (Voland) in this book joins past and future. He is like endless power of justice. He is everywhere. He punishes human for their vices and does it sometimes softly, sometimes absolutly hard like in a real life. Someone manages to avoid devil's hand. He is awful only for weak people. He is like people's conscience, inevitable punishment each of us. He is like universe which looks at mass of people and estimates them. This theme (theme of forgiveness, conscience and truth) passes over novel from the start to the end.

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  @troyvinson26553 ай бұрын

  Dude. Please stop reviewing books you are not good at it at all. At least get out of your own head when you read anything. I can not even finish this nonsense. Read Gogol's Dead Souls and you may understand literature for the first time. Sorry Juan find another thing to do, you make the world worse doing this.

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  @troyvinson26553 ай бұрын

  What are you doing? You either talk about one book or a movement. I love Joyce and I love Faulkner. They have nothing in common that I can see.

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  @jackasswhiskyandpintobeans93443 ай бұрын

  My favorite Mann story is "The Joker." It is my life (almost) written by another person. The caveat is that I didn't inherit money, yet I am wealthy.

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  @chrisrehr71163 ай бұрын

  i like ginzburg's version great review

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  @mariasarkisyan30003 ай бұрын

  thank you for a good review !

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  @AlexAndreou20074 ай бұрын

  Hi im making a film based on the Magus, can you read the script and review it?

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  @AlexAndreou20074 ай бұрын

  Hi im making a film based on the Magus, can you read the script and review it?

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  @hitchchristos25725 күн бұрын

  Literary journalist of 40 years here. Happy to read it.

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  @heyyou2744 ай бұрын

  Having finished the Magic Mountain this very morning after two month of reading, I was curious to see if anyone had put up a video review of it on KZread. I am glad to have found your video, Juan. It is very well done. I am a bit exhausted from Thomas Mann's endless digressions and I deeply appreciate that you managed to keep it concise ;) It is also great that you managed to review the book without spoilers. There are unfortunately other reviews on KZread which reveal crucial plot twists. I heard that Vladimir Nakobov had a very negative opinion of Thomas Mann, calling him "second-rate", "puffed-up" and a "big fake". But as you say so nicely in your review, "the Magic Mountain will not be the right novel for everyone." To be honest, I finished it but I am still not sure if it has been the right novel for me. The language is very beautiful and I liked the meticulous descriptions of all the characters. Many scenes such as the interactions between Hans Castrop and Madame Chauchat as well as the episode in the snow are fantastic. But I found the lengthy dialogs between the humanist Settembrini and the Jesuit Naphta exhausting and pointless. I think one could simply skip these passages without missing anything important of this book. There is only one point in your review where I couldn't disagree more (2:38): "...a great place to start if you have never read anything by him." If someone hasn't read anything from Thomas Mann before, I would not recommend the Magic Mountain as a starter. "Tonio Kröger" and "Death in Venice" are both much shorter and give new readers an idea of Mann's style. His debut novel "The Buddenbrooks" is almost as long as the Magic Mountain but I found the story better organized, more grounded and more compelling.

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  @scarba4 ай бұрын

  Great review, new subscriber

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  @QuiltinRI4 ай бұрын

  Reading War and Peace has been on my bucket list since high school. Finally, over 50 years later, I bought a hard cover copy at a library book sale and dove in. I'm now about 80% through the book. Everything you say in your review is spot on! It is not a difficult book, and I encourage everyone who loves good books to read it!

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  @Jimbodisfan4 ай бұрын

  Good morning. My name is Jim and I'm from New Jersey. I subscribed to your channel because you mentioned One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I read it some ten years ago and thought it was great, but a little confusing with about 17 characters with the same name. Unlike you, I am not multilingual (unless you count Typoese lol) and know only English, although I admire those who can speak multiple languages. Roberto Bolano actually intrigues me even though I know nothing about him or his work, but I once saw 2666 in the library. I'm interested in knowing what books you would recommend to someone who is interested in Latin American literature but doesn't know where to start. Have a great day.