Which Country Has the Best Literature in the World?

📚 Read the Great Books with Hardcore Literature: ———————————— 🎙️ (Subscribe to the Hardcore Literature Podcast on iTunes & Spotify) 🏫 ... (Hardcore University, Exam Preparation Courses) ✍🏼 My Personal Website ———————————— Hardcore Literature Lecture Series ———————————— 📔Contents Page: 🎖️ War and Peace: 🎭 Shakespeare Project: 🐳 Moby Dick: ☄️ Blood Meridian: 🍂 Wuthering Heights: 🇮🇪 Ulysses: 🚂 Anna Karenina: 💀 Crime and Punishment: ⚓ Persuasion: ☕ In Search of Lost Time: ⚔️ The Hero’s Journey: 🌸 Siddharta: 🎠 Don Quixote: ❤️Shakespeare’s Sonnets: 🇫🇷 Les Misérables: 🕯️ The Turn of the Screw: 🖋️ Dickens Seasonal Read: 📖 Middlemarch Serial Reading: ———————————— 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?