Valentina
books with nightmarish qualities
updated
Mating - Norman Rush
Other People’s Clothes - Calla Henkel
Stalin’s Daughter - Rosemary Sullivan
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
The Idiot - Elif Batuman
This is just the beginning of enrichment fall, I will be reading and thinking a lot in the coming months 🤓
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Read from 6/16/24 - 7/22/24
This video was originally 60 min long, I had to cut down every clip of me saying “this is good as fuck,” because there were a lot of them hahaha.
There was a whole chunk of me going into Vasily Grossman as a person, writer, veteran, etc., but it was a bit too much for this video. Members, if you want it I will upload 🤔
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Mentioned books:
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse - tertulia.com/book/siddhartha-hermannhesse/9780553208849?affiliate_id=val-123&utm_s ource=ambassador&utm_campaign=ambassador__val-123__08012024
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli - tertulia.com/book/minor-detail-adania-shibli/9780811229074?affiliate_id=val-123&utm_so urce=ambassador&utm_campaign=ambassador__val-123__08012024
New Millennium Boyz by Alex Kazemi - tertulia.com/book/new-millennium-boyz-alex-kazemi/9781637583913?affiliate_id=val-123 &utm_source=ambassador&utm_campaign=ambassador__val-123__08012024
Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky - tertulia.com/book/demons-fyodor-dostoyevsky/9780679734512?affiliate_id=val-123&utm _source=ambassador&utm_campaign=ambassador__val-123__08012024
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman - tertulia.com/book/life-and-fate-vasily-grossman/9781590172018?affiliate_id=val-123&utm _source=ambassador&utm_campaign=ambassador__val-123__08012024
The Fall by Albert Camus - tertulia.com/book/the-fall-albert-camus/9780679720225?affiliate_id=val-123&utm_source =ambassador&utm_campaign=ambassador__val-123__08012024
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut- tertulia.com/book/slaughterhouse-five-or-the-children-s-crusade-a-duty-dance-with-death- kurt-vonnegut/9780385333849?affiliate_id=val-123&utm_source=ambassador&utm_campaign= ambassador__val-123__08012024
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Creators mentioned:
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• @superblomper 01:18
• @nathansnook 01:45
• @milanaradic 02:28
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• @CruelSpirit 03:42
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Books mentioned:
• The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx’s Capital - Beverly Best
• Michael Kohlhaas - Heinrich Von Kleist (Martin Greenberg, Trans)
• Explosion in a Cathedral - Alejo Carpentier (Adrian Nathan West, Trans)
• The Rise of Life on Earth - Joyce Carol Oates
• Thérèse Raquin - Émile Zola (Leonard Tancock, Trans)
• El Obsceno Pájaro de la Noche - José Donoso
• 2666 - Roberto Bolaño (Natasha Wimmer, Trans)
• Ethics - Benedict De Spinoza (Edwin M. Curley, Trans)
• The Discomfort of Evening - Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (Michele Hutchison, Trans)
• Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
• Red Calvary - Isaac Babel (Peter Constantine, Trans)
• Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction - Mark Fisher
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Books mentioned
01:17 - One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
04:02 - Slouching Towards Bethlehem- Joan Didion
06:05 - Poor Things - Alasdair Gray
08:39 - La Parabola de Pablo - Alfonzo Salazar
11:05 - The SHARDS - Bret Easton Ellis
11:42 - On Palestine - Noam Chomsky
14:30 - En Agosto Nos Vemos - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
15:36 - Blue Lard - Vladimir Sorokin
18:08 - Other People’s Clothes - Calla Henkel
In this video I provide a brief timeline of D’s life, work, and my personal journey with him that is long from over.
The painting in the thumbnail and background is “Dostoevsky Painting” by Anatoly Shumkin.
Other sources:
historytoday.com/archive/emancipation-russian-serfs-1861
alchetron.com/Petrashevsky-Circle
https://afisha.london/en/2022/11/11/dostoevsky-in-london-and-his-influence-on-the-british-classics/
https://dostoevskiyfm.ru/игрок-кратко/
In this video I provide a brief timeline of D’s life, work and my personal journey with him that is long from over.
The painting in the thumbnail and background is “Dostoevsky Painting” by Anatoly Shumkin.
Other sources:
historytoday.com/archive/emancipation-russian-serfs-1861
alchetron.com/Petrashevsky-Circle
https://afisha.london/en/2022/11/11/dostoevsky-in-london-and-his-influence-on-the-british-classics/
https://dostoevskiyfm.ru/игрок-кратко/
Song is Mr & Mrs Smack by Eat. Not sure if this will get taken down for copyright lol.
Image in the top left is one of Vladimir Sorokin’s AI portraits of the Russian clone-writers from Blue Lard.
The other is a cover of The SHARDS. The rest are mine 😭
Books mentioned:
Nikolai Gogol - The Nose
Vladimir Sorokin - The Blizzard
Daniel Mason - North Woods
Bret Easton Ellis - Lunar Park
Tom Robbins - Still Life with Woodpecker
Franz Kafka - The Complete Stories
Arthur C. Clarke - 2001 A Space Odyssey
Haruki Murakami - 1Q84
Susanna Clarke - Piranesi
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Ítalo Calvino - Invisible Cities
Vladimir Sorokin - Blue Lard
The Day the World Stops Shopping- J.B. Mackinnon
Master and Man- Leo Tolstoy
Perfume- Patrick Süskind
Mumu- Ivan Turgenev
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain- George Saunders.
Shoutout Gooseberries and The Singers by Anton Chekhov & Ivan Turgenev respectively
The Glutton- A.K. Blakemore
Invisible Cities- Italo Calvino
Motherless Brooklyn- Jonathan Lethem
Lucky Jim- Kingsley Amis
Fight Club- Chuck Phalahniuk
King, Queen, Knave- Vladimir Nabokov