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While Tolstoy wrote about the winners mainly, the aristocrats, Napoleon etc., Dostoevsky predominantly wrote about the male losers. Precisely lonely who cannot get women.
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Japan is one of the most unique countries in the world, considered one of the safest, cleanest and most organized countries in the world.
But what is Japanese literature like? What makes Japanese literature so unique? What are some of the most important themes in Japanese literature? And who are some of the greatest Japanese writers.
In this video I’ll answer all these questions and more by looking at 1,000 years of Japanese literature.
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Leo Tolstoy is perhaps the greatest Russian writer of all time, if not the greatest writer ever. He is a towering figure in Russian literature. His masterpieces such as War and Peace and Anna Karenina always make the list of the best novels of all time.
Here, I will look into Tolstoy’s life, his major novels, his life philosophies and much more.
In the first section, I will compare Tolstoy to the giant of English literature, Charles Dickens. They lived around the same time, more or less so this comparison can give those in the English speaking world the window through which they can understand Tolstoy’s life and writing style.
In the second part, I will discuss Tolstoy’s two masterpieces, Anna Karenina and War and Peace in great details so you get to understand Tolstoy’s mastery of storytelling and his unique insights into the Russian society of the time but more importantly his insights about the human condition.
In the third part I will discuss some life lessons we can learn from Tolstoy as well as a few storytelling techniques. In the final section, I will compare Tolstoy with another giant of Russian literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky to give you even more depth about the man through their similarities and their differences.
By the end of this video, you will know Tolstoy as if he was your wise old grandpa who had some amazing stories to tell and a lot of wisdom to share. You will also learn a lot about Russia and its literature through the lens of a giant who dominates Russian literature.
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01:54 Dickens vs Tolstoy
44:02 Anna Karenina
01:07:00 War and Peace
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01:49:48 Dostoevsky vs Tolstoy
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I often describe Russian Literature as a massive punch in the face because these Russian writers were truth-tellers, no matter how painful and uncomfortable were those truths. The reason for that is the country has an extreme climate, cold harsh reality sets in every winter. So despite lofty, cushiony ideas of freedom, individualism, equality and so on trickling down from the West, these Russian novelists understood that reality always come to bite you no matter how lofty are your beliefs. These Russian writers were poets of reality, and reality is always messy.
In the first few parts, I will discuss four giants of Russian Literature, starting with Eugen Onegin by Alexander Pushkin who as the father of modern Russian Literature single-handedly revolutionised the Russian Literature as wells the Russian language. Then I will discuss A Hero of Our time by Mikhail Lermontov, often considered the second most beloved poet of Russia. Then I will move on to Nikolai Gogol’s satirical stories, mainly his masterpiece, the Dead Souls as well as Ivan Goncharov’s novel, Oblomov, another classic of Russian satire.
In Part 2, I will talk about another 4 giants of Russian Literature starting with Ivan Turgenev, one of the most artistic of Russian writers. His masterpiece Fathers and Sons inspired both Tolstoy and Dostoevsky to write their greatest novels. I will also talk about Fyodor Dostoevsky, perhaps the most psychological Russian writer who influenced later generations of writers from around the world. I will talk about his most influential novel, the Brothers Karamazov. Then, I will look at the works by Leo Tolstoy, the giant of Russian Literature. I will discuss his War and Peace. Unlike the psychological tales of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy was more concerned with the sociological questions concerning what forces move history and civilisation as well as the role of an individual within a society. Finally I will also discuss Anton Chekhov, the father of short stories whose tales have been immensely influential in cinema.
By the end of this video, you will know all the major Russian classic novels, as well as some of the most influential novelists from the Russian-speaking world. This book will give you all the juicy stuff from Russian Literature. If you have read, this book will connect a lot of dots. If you have not read, it connects dots about life and its meaning and purpose in general. Russian Literature is truly universal because these writers went deep, really deep into the human psyche to dissect all manner of themes, from politics, history, social change to crime, guilt and redemption. So get yourself some vodka and let me take you on a journey spanning 100 of years Russian brilliance.
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40:42 Notes from Underground
01:06:15 Crime and Punishment
01:17:40 The Idiot
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Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1899. Aged 55, he went blind, so he lived without sight for the last 30 years of his life until his death in 1986.
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06:54 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
09:15 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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24:41 Was Kundera French?
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Clarice Lispector, a Ukraine-born Brazilian writer, was one of the 20th century’s geniuses of literature. She noticed that the structure we give life is just our own invention. It’s like a mental cage to make us feel safer. In reality, there is little or no structure to life. The clear path we create in our imagination, we are born, we go to school, we become adults, we get married, we grow old and die, is nothing but out of human’s innate need for order.
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If humans were computers, the hardware is animal and the software? I say stories. Our animal body has seen very little change in the last few thousands years, but our software has changed a bit. With each generation the narrative changes. New stories replace the older ones. So the biggest difference between humans and animals is our ability to tell stories. But also our ability to believe in fictional stories. So our hardware is ape but our software is storytelling.
In this video, I will tell you the story of literature encompassing an incredible 4000 years of storytelling history. By the end of this video, you will know all the great works of literature, literary movements, as well as some of the most literary minds from around the world. The video has 3 major parts and 11 sections.
In part 1, I will answer the most fundamental question. Why are humans the only species who tells stories? What functions do stories have in our evolution? I will also highlight some important events in history that shaped the way we tell stories, and the literary movements of the last 4,000 years.
In part 2, I will look at the origin of storytelling and how it is rooted in nature. The most fundamental event in a human life is death or the awareness of it. So in this part, I will discuss storytelling in four segments each on the topic of death, wars, sex and laughter. In other words, humans woke up to the realisation of death, so the first stories are stories of mortality and immortality. Then we humans moved to wars and wrote epics that lamented the demise of an empire or celebrated their triumphs. Since the victors got the spoils and we moved to tell stories of sex and mating, romance became an important topic of storytelling. In other words, how boys meet girls. With sex came laughter, so storytelling entertained us through comedy.
In part 3, we move away from nature-inflicted tales towards human-centred stories, as in when storytelling meets rationality and humanism. So instead of gods and nature, we humans became in charge of our own destiny. The age of reason also resulted in a counter-enlightenment movement of romanticism which took us back to nature. Then came realism, in which ordinary people became the heroes of stories, not some king or general. Then we moved to naturalism in which evolutionary biology became the window through which stories are told. This was followed by modernism in which we told stories through psychology. And finally magical realism which took us back to the early humans when gods and demons interfered with our stories.
In part 4, we again move away from humanism into what’s termed as post-humanism. Here the whole idea of truth telling is questioned. If humanism tried to clarify and solidify things that humans are the only gods on earth, posthumanism, and postmodernism partly fuelled by quantum physics, muddied the water so we no longer know what’s going on, despite our scientific and technological advancement, or in some cases because of that.
In this video, the real hero is not a human or demon or a beast, but the real hero is literature or storytelling itself. Human mortality gave birth to storytelling. Conflicts gave it its fuel and energy. Sex added flavour. Laughter made it reflective. Then came reason to dominate storytelling, through physical reality, biological truths, psychological depth, and finally quantum magical thinking. And today literature seems a bit muddled as it has questioned truth-telling. You could say literature is suffering from old-age Alzheimer. So the question is can literature and storytelling survive robots?
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00:00 Introduction
04:15 Why Literature?
27:54 Tales for Immortality
45:14 Tales of Wars
01:04:47 Tales of Mating
01:23:24 Tales of Laughter
01:43:11 Storytelling meets rationality
02:06:27 Back to nature
02:23:43 Storytelling meets reality
02:39:52 Storytelling meets Biology
02:55:57 Storytelling meets Psychology
03:13:22 Storytelling meets Quantum Physics
03:34:00 Storytelling meets Postmodernism
03:52:12 Future of Storytelling
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00:00 intro
01:35 Arthur Schopenhauer
05:30 Soren Kierkegaard
08:41 Fyodor Dostoevsky
11:00 Friedrich Nietzsche
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14:59 Albert Camus
17:48 Jean-Paul Sartre
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Ayn Rand's philosophy of objectivism is based on reason, objective reality, individualism and free market capitalism. Her goal was to make rational philosophy the foundation of a modern society, in which individuals put themselves before others, arguing that selfishness was a good motivator for us to be creative and productive. She rejected altruism, religion, and collectivism. For her the only value we have in this world is what you can offer others. If you have nothing to offer except your moral virtue, you have nothing to exchange with others.
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01:34 Life
13:32 The Fountainhead summary
22:12 The Fountainhead analysis: ideal man
25:47 The Fountainhead analysis: individualism vs collectivism
27:46 Atlas Shrugged summary
35:33 Atlas Shrugged Analysis: ethical egoism
38:55 7 Lessons
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41:10 Lesson 2
43:26 Lesson 3
44:49 Lesson 4
46:26 Lesson 5
47:50 Lesson 6
50:10 Lesson 7
53:00 final words
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In this video I will dicuss the life of Hermann Hesse, summarise his two famous novels and dicuss some of his life philosophies.
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16:30 Siddhartha Summary
25:00 Siddhartha analysis
28:48 Steppenwolf summary
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Carl Jung, the Swiss genius psychoanalyst looked at humans from different cultures and continents and discovered something extraordinary. We all have very similar myths and stories, religious and non-religious.
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15:07 Core Ideas
20:50 archetypes
25:40 personality types
27:16 Persona vs Shadow
32:25 anima and animus
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35:50 Lesson 2
37:50 Lesson 3
39:27 Lesson 4
40:35 Lesson 5
41:37 Lesson 6
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47:10 Lesson 9
48:25 Lesson 10
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While the Iliad is the epic of irrational passion where courage is the main fuel in the tank, the Odyssey, however, is the epic of a rational man who is driven by loyalty to his wife and son. To put simply, the Iliad is the epic of physical strength while the Odyssey is the epic of mental endurance. The two epics can give us the picture of before and after when it comes to human agency and rationality.
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05:00 Iliad Summary
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28:15 Odyssey analysis
32:56 Iliad and Odyssey Compared
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What drives us to get out of bed every morning? What motivates us to go on living? What’s behind the human will that is pushing us forward, achieve great things or do stupid things?
The German philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer, argued that we are driven to live because there is a mysterious force inside us, bestowed upon us by the universe itself. A unified force that unites all humans, animals and even objects. We have little or no control over this mysterious force, yet we are all bound by it. So our rational conscious mind is just the tip of the iceberg. While many philosophers ignored Schopenhauer, he had a profound influence on artists, musicians, novelists but most significantly psychoanalysts such as Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.
In this video, I’ll look at Schopenhauer’s life, summarise his philosophical ideas and tell you why pessimism is good for you in today’s world.
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Schopenhauer
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02:03 Schopenhauer’s Biography
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