Which Country Has the Best Literature in the World?

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Hardcore Literature Lecture Series
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Happy reading!

0:00 How to rank world literature?
0:10 Russian Literature
0:20 The rise of the novel
0:39 Pre-novel stories (Cervantes, Shakespeare, Bible)
0:50 Samuel Richardson's Clarissa
1:00 Why we take Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky for granted
1:20 What was the original reading experience like?
2:20 How James Joyce broke the novel (Ulysses, Finnegans Wake)
3:10 How Pushkin fathered Russian Literature
3:40 The first Russian novel
3:50 Why Tolstoy is one of the best novelists
4:30 Tolstoy, Flaubert, Austen, Dostoyevsky, Dickens
5:20 Victor Hugo's Les Misérables
5:40 The beginnings of American Literature
5:50 After Auschwitz, how can one write poetry?
6:00 The Era of post-modern American Literature
6:50 Thomas Pynchon, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Flannery O'Connor
7:00 How to read beyond Western Literature?
7:30 My experience living in Japan
8:00 The Tale of the Genji
8:30 How can we comprehend another culture when we don't understand our own?
8:50 The Bhagavad-Gita
9:45 If a martian crash-landed on Earth...
11:19 What country's literature is your favourite?

[peskylisa]

British literature-I will die for honour. American literature-I will die for freedom. French literature-I will die for love. Russian literature -I will die.

[athankwo]

I simply love Russian literature the best.

[HexenLuca]

I love both Russian and Latin American literature. My personal favorites are: “Crime and Punishment, ” “Brother Kamarazov, ” “The Idiot” by Dostoyevsky. Another genius writer of Russian literature is Turgenev who also has written fantastic novels such as “Fathers and sons, ” and “First Love.” From Latin America Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa and Julio Cortázar are phenomenal writers. As a Latin American myself who has lived abroad I would say Latin American literature resonates a lot with Russian literature, authors love to denounce both social and psychological issues. Some books from Latin American authors I recommend are “100 years of solitude, ” “The feast of the Goat, ” and “Hopscotch.” (They are listed in the same order respective the previously mentioned authors)

[ashafaghi]

Being an Iranian, I personally believe Persian poets such as Rumi, Khayam, Ferdowsi, Saadi and many others are among great literary individuals of the world.
Please tell me if you have read any Persian poetry 🌼

[АрсенийА-юз]

The 19th century is the golden age of Russian literature. Number 1 on this list is Alexander Pushkin, Number 2 is Mikhail Lermontov, and then a whole list of remarkable classics of Russian literature Nikolai Gogol, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Goncharov, playwright Alexander Ostrovsky and many others,

[felipefauri]

I love russian and german lit, but I’d say that everyone should read Brazillian Literature.

“To the worm that first gnawed at the cold flesh of my cadaver I dedicate as a fond remembrance these posthumous memoirs.”

Original:

“Ao verme que primeiro roeu as frias carnes do meu cadáver dedico como saudosa lembrança estas memórias póstumas” Machado de Assis

[isaiah]

I read French literature in French
I read Spanish literature in Spanish
English literature in English
Unfortunately I don’t know Russian so I read it in Spanish
Or German etc
When your read in the original language I think is the best

[waterglas]

Spanish and Italian (Dante, Cervantes, Unamuno, Calderon de la Barca, Petrarch) and German (Hesse, Goethe)

[umeshhemanth]

Man you speak like you are whispering wisdom, great job...I love it....

[raiden]

I really enjoy German literature, though my exposure is rather limited: a bit of Hesse, Mann, and Fontaine (as well as some medieval stories like Parzival). Currently reading a compilation of Tolstoy's works and greatly enjoying them.

I haven't read any French literature at all yet, which is something I definitely need to correct.

[soorenkhichoomian]

I am an Iranian by birth. I know much about Iranian literature but as great works of art in Persian have not been translated in English or French they are not very well known in the world . Most of the readers in the west are, more or less, familiar with Rumi or Khayyam . However, there are wonderful poets and writers such as Ferdowsi whose great epic masterpiece The Shahnameh is somewhat equal to the works of Homer. Modern authors have fantastic books, too. I will be very happy if you can talk about such works and in case you need help I will be delighted to be of help.

[eliasdeeb]

I'm an English major, my mother tongue is arabic, and every few months I get this sorrowful feeling of having neglected the Arabic language. so a few years ago I've decided to read 5 arabic books a year, and they have never failed me.

[sriranjit]

I will reccomend some great pieces of literature from Southern part of India.

1. Cilapatikaram - A tale of an Anklet
2. Thirukural

[Ozgipsy]

I’m in a Russian phase right now. Brazil had a hold on me, French still does, but I always come back to English / American Lit.

Tolstoy is an experience, but Cormac McCarthy’s new book is a must-read.

[vicdelta]

I am just getting into the classics in the past couple of years, but I feel much like the privileged class of the old, we are fortunate that a cornucopia of literary art is available at our fingertips. Rather than ranking the great books I am just thankful to experience the plethora of stories from across borders and epochs and gain a semblance of humanity through its arts.

[MarkDouglass-dtky]

Russian, English, French, Spanish, and American: equally tops.

[olgaotherstories]

British and Russsian literature. I love Jane Austen and Trollope so much and Anna Karenina kills you every time and Turgjenjev is magic.

[AhmedalHijazi]

I’m delighted to find this hidden gem channel 🤩

Keeping posting such videos

[ashtheviking]

It's like flavors of icecream. They're all good if you keep an open mind. If someone you love recommends a book - you should feel like you're in good hands and read it.

[adrianancira]

Wow! Great video/article! I myself, don´t think there is a country with best literature, but I like knowing where the author is from, like you say, you get a glimpse of a culture and that is very enriching.