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  1. youtube.com/watch?v=K86uKcbc__E

    In this deep dive, AI breaks down the "Physics of Opposites" that drives the narrative of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Idiot. At its heart, the novel is a collision between the Christ-like innocence of Prince Myshkin and the destructive, earthly passions of Rogozhin and Nastasya Filippovna.

    #Dostoevsky #TheIdiot #ClassicLiterature #BookAnalysis #RussianLit #Philosophy #PrinceMyshkin #LiteraryCriticism #BookTube #GreatBooks #Existentialism #LiteratureDeepDive

  2. youtube.com/watch?v=K86uKcbc__E

    In this deep dive, AI breaks down the "Physics of Opposites" that drives the narrative of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Idiot. At its heart, the novel is a collision between the Christ-like innocence of Prince Myshkin and the destructive, earthly passions of Rogozhin and Nastasya Filippovna.

    #Dostoevsky #TheIdiot #ClassicLiterature #BookAnalysis #RussianLit #Philosophy #PrinceMyshkin #LiteraryCriticism #BookTube #GreatBooks #Existentialism #LiteratureDeepDive

  3. youtube.com/watch?v=K86uKcbc__E

    In this deep dive, AI breaks down the "Physics of Opposites" that drives the narrative of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Idiot. At its heart, the novel is a collision between the Christ-like innocence of Prince Myshkin and the destructive, earthly passions of Rogozhin and Nastasya Filippovna.

    #Dostoevsky #TheIdiot #ClassicLiterature #BookAnalysis #RussianLit #Philosophy #PrinceMyshkin #LiteraryCriticism #BookTube #GreatBooks #Existentialism #LiteratureDeepDive

  4. youtube.com/watch?v=K86uKcbc__E

    In this deep dive, AI breaks down the "Physics of Opposites" that drives the narrative of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Idiot. At its heart, the novel is a collision between the Christ-like innocence of Prince Myshkin and the destructive, earthly passions of Rogozhin and Nastasya Filippovna.

    #Dostoevsky #TheIdiot #ClassicLiterature #BookAnalysis #RussianLit #Philosophy #PrinceMyshkin #LiteraryCriticism #BookTube #GreatBooks #Existentialism #LiteratureDeepDive

  5. youtube.com/watch?v=K86uKcbc__E

    In this deep dive, AI breaks down the "Physics of Opposites" that drives the narrative of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Idiot. At its heart, the novel is a collision between the Christ-like innocence of Prince Myshkin and the destructive, earthly passions of Rogozhin and Nastasya Filippovna.

    #Dostoevsky #TheIdiot #ClassicLiterature #BookAnalysis #RussianLit #Philosophy #PrinceMyshkin #LiteraryCriticism #BookTube #GreatBooks #Existentialism #LiteratureDeepDive

  6. Finished The Brothers Karamazov while in a crisis center. Not rehab, but close. Six days. Six hundred spirals. One Russian novel.

    Final thoughts?

    • Smerdyakov is a piece of shit
    • Mitya’s chaotic but not hopeless
    • Ivan’s smarter but sadder
    • Alyosha’s the only one who gets it

    It’s messy. And I like mess.

    If you like gossip, guilt, tea, theology, murder, daddy issues, and courtroom drama — this book is for you.

    #Karamazov #Dostoevsky #MentalHealthReads #RussianLit #MessyBooks

  7. Kolya: “We’ll either become close friends at once, forever… or part as mortal enemies.”

    Alyosha: “Even if everyone is like that, do not be like that.”

    There’s real moral clarity in that line. Be honest, even if no one else is. Especially then.

    #Karamazov #Dostoevsky #AmReading #RussianLit #BrothersKaramazov #BookToot

  8. Kolya: “We’ll either become close friends at once, forever… or part as mortal enemies.”

    Alyosha: “Even if everyone is like that, do not be like that.”

    There’s real moral clarity in that line. Be honest, even if no one else is. Especially then.

    #Karamazov #Dostoevsky #AmReading #RussianLit #BrothersKaramazov #BookToot

  9. I made the decision last week to read The Brothers Karamazov. It’s my first time, and yes, it is daunting. But so far I’ve found it extremely engaging and finished 7 chapters (they’re not long). I’m trying my best not to read too fast, adding notes/marginalia and keeping a journal for reflection.

    I’m interested in finding any lectures or discussions that go through it from beginning to end. Please recommend if you know of any.

    📚 #reading #readingcommunity #RussianLit #bookcommunity #books

  10. I made the decision last week to read The Brothers Karamazov. It’s my first time, and yes, it is daunting. But so far I’ve found it extremely engaging and finished 7 chapters (they’re not long). I’m trying my best not to read too fast, adding notes/marginalia and keeping a journal for reflection.

    I’m interested in finding any lectures or discussions that go through it from beginning to end. Please recommend if you know of any.

    📚 #reading #readingcommunity #RussianLit #bookcommunity #books

  11. I made the decision last week to read The Brothers Karamazov. It’s my first time, and yes, it is daunting. But so far I’ve found it extremely engaging and finished 7 chapters (they’re not long). I’m trying my best not to read too fast, adding notes/marginalia and keeping a journal for reflection.

    I’m interested in finding any lectures or discussions that go through it from beginning to end. Please recommend if you know of any.

    📚 #reading #readingcommunity #RussianLit #bookcommunity #books

  12. I made the decision last week to read The Brothers Karamazov. It’s my first time, and yes, it is daunting. But so far I’ve found it extremely engaging and finished 7 chapters (they’re not long). I’m trying my best not to read too fast, adding notes/marginalia and keeping a journal for reflection.

    I’m interested in finding any lectures or discussions that go through it from beginning to end. Please recommend if you know of any.

    📚 #reading #readingcommunity #RussianLit #bookcommunity #books

  13. "He loved science and deeply respected it, but, like many of us, he soon came to the conclusion that to follow the career of a scientific man meant to join the camp of the Philistines, and that there was plenty of other and more urgent work that he could do."
    - Peter Kropotkin, Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)

    theanarchistlibrary.org/librar

    #academia #praxis #theory #kropotkin #anarchism #19thCLit #RussianLit #memoirs #biography #bibliophile #science #school #socialism #LibertarianSocialism

  14. "He loved science and deeply respected it, but, like many of us, he soon came to the conclusion that to follow the career of a scientific man meant to join the camp of the Philistines, and that there was plenty of other and more urgent work that he could do."
    - Peter Kropotkin, Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)

    theanarchistlibrary.org/librar

    #academia #praxis #theory #kropotkin #anarchism #19thCLit #RussianLit #memoirs #biography #bibliophile #science #school #socialism #LibertarianSocialism

  15. "He loved science and deeply respected it, but, like many of us, he soon came to the conclusion that to follow the career of a scientific man meant to join the camp of the Philistines, and that there was plenty of other and more urgent work that he could do."
    - Peter Kropotkin, Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)

    theanarchistlibrary.org/librar

    #academia #praxis #theory #kropotkin #anarchism #19thCLit #RussianLit #memoirs #biography #bibliophile #science #school #socialism #LibertarianSocialism

  16. "He loved science and deeply respected it, but, like many of us, he soon came to the conclusion that to follow the career of a scientific man meant to join the camp of the Philistines, and that there was plenty of other and more urgent work that he could do."
    - Peter Kropotkin, Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)

    theanarchistlibrary.org/librar

    #academia #praxis #theory #kropotkin #anarchism #19thCLit #RussianLit #memoirs #biography #bibliophile #science #school #socialism #LibertarianSocialism

  17. "He loved science and deeply respected it, but, like many of us, he soon came to the conclusion that to follow the career of a scientific man meant to join the camp of the Philistines, and that there was plenty of other and more urgent work that he could do."
    - Peter Kropotkin, Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)

    theanarchistlibrary.org/librar

    #academia #praxis #theory #kropotkin #anarchism #19thCLit #RussianLit #memoirs #biography #bibliophile #science #school #socialism #LibertarianSocialism

  18. Latest reads, The Story of My Dovecot and First Love (both 1925) by Isaac Babel, from Red Cavalry and Other Stories. A Jewish boy strives to enter school in a system that is unfair to his people & culture, and succeeds regardless--only to have his family's livelihood destroyed by Cossacks in a pogrom. While in hiding from the violence, he falls in love with a sympathetic soldier's wife.
    Writing that's comparable, at times, to master-paintings; so richly evocative.
    #Books #ShortStory #RussianLit

  19. Latest reads, The Story of My Dovecot and First Love (both 1925) by Isaac Babel, from Red Cavalry and Other Stories. A Jewish boy strives to enter school in a system that is unfair to his people & culture, and succeeds regardless--only to have his family's livelihood destroyed by Cossacks in a pogrom. While in hiding from the violence, he falls in love with a sympathetic soldier's wife.
    Writing that's comparable, at times, to master-paintings; so richly evocative.
    #Books #ShortStory #RussianLit

  20. Latest reads, The Story of My Dovecot and First Love (both 1925) by Isaac Babel, from Red Cavalry and Other Stories. A Jewish boy strives to enter school in a system that is unfair to his people & culture, and succeeds regardless--only to have his family's livelihood destroyed by Cossacks in a pogrom. While in hiding from the violence, he falls in love with a sympathetic soldier's wife.
    Writing that's comparable, at times, to master-paintings; so richly evocative.
    #Books #ShortStory #RussianLit

  21. Latest reads, The Story of My Dovecot and First Love (both 1925) by Isaac Babel, from Red Cavalry and Other Stories. A Jewish boy strives to enter school in a system that is unfair to his people & culture, and succeeds regardless--only to have his family's livelihood destroyed by Cossacks in a pogrom. While in hiding from the violence, he falls in love with a sympathetic soldier's wife.
    Writing that's comparable, at times, to master-paintings; so richly evocative.
    #Books #ShortStory #RussianLit

  22. Latest reads, The Story of My Dovecot and First Love (both 1925) by Isaac Babel, from Red Cavalry and Other Stories. A Jewish boy strives to enter school in a system that is unfair to his people & culture, and succeeds regardless--only to have his family's livelihood destroyed by Cossacks in a pogrom. While in hiding from the violence, he falls in love with a sympathetic soldier's wife.
    Writing that's comparable, at times, to master-paintings; so richly evocative.
    #Books #ShortStory #RussianLit

  23. Hi, Mastodon folks – my name is Ethan.

    I live in Brooklyn, NY. I’m an English professor at The King’s College, where I teach all kinds of writing and literature, from Shakespeare to Russian novels to Southern lit. Most of my published writing is about medieval literature, namely from 14th-century England (Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, John Wyclif, etc.). I also like to write fiction.