Which Country Has the Best Literature in the World?

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🚂 Anna Karenina: https://cutt.ly/vmNhAWv
💀 Crime and Punishment: https://cutt.ly/rmNhFt5
⚓ Persuasion: https://cutt.ly/amNhX7b
☕ In Search of Lost Time: https://cutt.ly/5mNh8oD
⚔️ The Hero’s Journey: https://cutt.ly/UmNjrE3
🌸 Siddharta: https://cutt.ly/YmNjuzi
🎠 Don Quixote: https://cutt.ly/cmNjoK4
❤️Shakespeare’s Sonnets: https://cutt.ly/nmNlW7V
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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?

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