Podcasts about Ivan Turgenev

It's time for another publisher-centric episode, and it's another stunner—we're heading to Latin America (via Scotland!) to talk about the brilliant Charco Press! We dive into what makes Charco Press such a standout: their dedication to bringing contemporary Latin American literature to English-language readers, their thoughtful support of authors and translators, and, yes, their absolutely gorgeous books.We each share three Charco titles we love and three more we can't wait to get our hands on. There's something for everyone—from the surreal to the political, the tender to the explosive. Plus, we announce the winner of our March giveaway and introduce an amazing new prize for April: a 2025 bundle of Charco Press books! You do not want to miss this one.Join the Mookse and the Gripes on DiscordWe're creating a welcoming space for thoughtful, engaging discussions about great novellas, starting with First Love by Ivan Turgenev in April. Whether you want to share insights, ask questions, or simply follow along, we'd love to have you. The discussion will unfold gradually, so you can read at your own pace and jump in whenever you're ready. It's a great way to connect with fellow readers, explore new works together, and deepen your appreciation for the novella form.For the first book, the schedule will be as follows:* April 6: Start of the book through Section 9* April 9: Section 10 through Section 16* April 13: Section 17 through the endShownotesBooks* On the Calculation of Volume I, by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara Haveland* The Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher* Fated, by Benedict Jacka* Cursed, by Benedict Jacka* First Love, by Ivan Turgenev* The Wind That Lays Waste, by Selva Almada, translated by Chris Andrews* Dead Girls, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott* Brickmakers, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott* Not a River, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott* Catching Fire: A Translation Diary, by Daniel Hahn* Never Did the Fire, by Diamela Eltit, translated by Daniel Hahn* Homesick, by Jennifer Croft* The Cemetery of Untold Stories, by Julia Alvarez* The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka* An Orphan World, by Giuseppe Caputo, translated by Sophie Hughes and Juana Adcock* Dislocations, by Sylvia Malloy, translated by Jennifer Croft* Elena Knows, by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle* A Little Luck, by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle* Fish Soup, by Margarita García Robayo, translated by Charlotte Coombe* The Distance Between Us, by Renato Cisneros, translated by Fionn Petch* Time of the Flies, by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle* Two Sherpas, by Sebastián Martinez Daniell, translated by Jennifer Croft* Trout, Belly Up, by Rodrigo Fuentes, translated by Ellen Jones* Fresh Dirt from the Grave, by Giovanna Rivero, translated by Isabel Adey* The Adventures of China Iron, by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Fiona Mackintosh and Iona Macintyre* A Perfect Cemetery, by Federico Falco, translated by Jennifer Croft* Cautery, by Lucía Litmaer, translated by Maureen Shaughnessy* The Delivery, by Margarita García Robayo, translated by Megan McDowell* The Forgery, by Ave Barrera, translated by Ellen Jones and Robin Myers* Restoration, by Ave Barrera, translated by Ellen Jones and Robin Myers* Die, My Love, by Ariana Harwicz, translated by Sarah Moses and Carolina Orloff* Feebleminded, by Ariana Harwicz, translated by Annie McDermott and Carolina Orloff* Tender, by Ariana Harwicz, translated by Annie McDermott and Carolina OrloffOther* The Book Club Review Podcast* Charco Press Website* Episode 74: Canadian Literature, with Jerry Faust* Episode 88: Women in Translation, with Robin MyersThe Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a bookish conversation hosted by Paul and Trevor. Every other week, we explore a bookish topic and celebrate our love of reading. We're glad you're here, and we hope you'll continue to join us on this literary journey!A huge thank you to those who help make this podcast possible! If you'd like to support us, you can do so via Substack or Patreon. Subscribers receive access to periodic bonus episodes and early access to all new episodes. Plus, each supporter gets their own dedicated feed, allowing them to download episodes a few days before they're released to the public. We'd love for you to check it out! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode of The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast, we're joined by Rohan Maitzen to explore the multifaceted world of historical fiction. Rohan guides us through the genre, unpacking its many layers and surprising complexities. From timeless classics to unexpected gems, we share some of our favorite examples from the genre and discuss how historical fiction challenges our perceptions of the past and sparks conversations about the present, all while whisking us away to another time. Whether you're drawn to sweeping epics or intimate character studies, tune in for a thought-provoking discussion that will enhance the way you think about historical fiction!Join the Mookse and the Gripes on DiscordWe're creating a welcoming space for thoughtful, engaging discussions about great novellas, starting with First Love by Ivan Turgenev in April. Whether you want to share insights, ask questions, or simply follow along, we'd love to have you. The discussion will unfold gradually, so you can read at your own pace and jump in whenever you're ready. It's a great way to connect with fellow readers, explore new works together, and deepen your appreciation for the novella form.For the first book, the schedule will be as follows:* April 6: Start of the book through Section 9* April 9: Section 10 through Section 16* April 13: Section 17 through the endShownotesBooks* Widening the Skirts of Light: Essays on George Eliot, by Rohan Maitzen* Middlemarch for Book Clubs, by Rohan Maitzen* Middlemarch, by George Eliot* Daniel Deronda, by George Eliot* Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen* The Lymond Chronicles, by Dorothy Dunnett* My Lady Jane, by Cynthia Hand* Stone Yard Devotional, Charlotte Wood* All Fours, by Miranda July* Mrs. Death Misses Death, by Salena Godden* Telephone, by Percival Everett* Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend, by Rebecca Romney* Evelina, by Frances Burney* Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen* The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe* The Snow Child, by Eowyn Ivey* Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry* Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since, by Walter Scott* Adam Bede, by George Eliot* Romola, by George Eliot* The Cater Street Hangman, by Anne Perry* The Whitechapel Conspiracy, by Anne Perry* Kindred, by Octavia Butler* An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, by P.D. James* The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas* Burial Rites, by Hannah Kent* The Young Mary Queen of Scots, by Jean Plaidy* Murder Most Royal, by Jean Plaidy* Lives of the Queens of England, by Agnes and Elizabeth Strickland* Year of Wonders, by Geraldine Brooks* Siege of Krishnapur, by J.G. Farrell* Troubles, by J.G. Farrell* The Singapore Grip, by J.G. Farrell* Hamnet, by Maggie O'Farrell* A Long Long Way, by Sebastian Barry* Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson* Birdsong, by Sebastian Faulks* The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara* Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson* My Lady Of Cleves, by Margaret Campbell Barnes* Child of the Morning, by Pauline Gedge* The Eagle and the Raven, by Pauline GedgeOther* Episode 64: Victorian LiteratureThe Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a bookish conversation hosted by Paul and Trevor. Every other week, we explore a bookish topic and celebrate our love of reading. We're glad you're here, and we hope you'll continue to join us on this literary journey!A huge thank you to those who help make this podcast possible! If you'd like to support us, you can do so via Substack or Patreon. Subscribers receive access to periodic bonus episodes and early access to all new episodes. Plus, each supporter gets their own dedicated feed, allowing them to download episodes a few days before they're released to the public. We'd love for you to check it out! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe

Senior Curator of Film at the Museum of the Moving Image, Eric Hynes, is my guest in the first segment. Eric and I discuss the Museum's upcoming First Look festival to take place Wednesday, March 12th through Sunday, March 16th. First Look, MoMI's annual festival showcasing adventurous new cinema, returns for its 14th edition, offering a diverse slate of major New York premieres, work-in-progress screenings and sessions, gallery installations, and fresh perspectives on the art and process of filmmaking. This year's festival introduces New York audiences to more than three dozen works from around the world, encompassing feature and short films; fiction and nonfiction; performances and experiments. The guiding ethos of First Look is openness, curiosity, discovery, aiming to expose audiences to new art, artists to new audiences, and everyone to different methods, perspectives, interrogations, and encounters. For five consecutive days the festival takes over MoMI's two theaters, as well as other rooms and galleries throughout the Museum—with in-person appearances and dialogue integral to the experience. Each night concludes with one of five selected Showcase Screenings in MoMI's Sumner Redstone Theater.  In my segment I am joined by the film producer Jack Piatt and singer songwriter journeyman Chris Smither. They are part of the team behind a new short film, "The Singers" which premieres this weekend at SxSW. "The Singers" is a genre-bending film adaptation of a 19th-century short story written by Ivan Turgenev, in which a lowly pub full of downtrodden men connect unexpectedly through an impromptu sing-off. The film explores the complexities of masculinity and the power of vulnerability through art. Chris Smither makes his acting debut in this film directed by Sam Davis.

Introducing the Mookse and Gripes Novella Reading Group! Through this year, we're reading three novellas about love, longing, and leadership gone slightly off the rails. In this episode, we kick things off with some bookish banter before unveiling our new novella reading group on Discord. We have a short intermission for a special new game with a giveaway and then share the three novellas we'll be reading in 2025, diving into why we chose these books.Join us as we celebrate the art of the novella. We hope you'll read along!Join the Mookse and the Gripes on DiscordWe're creating a welcoming space for thoughtful, engaging discussions about great novellas, starting with First Love by Ivan Turgenev in April. Whether you want to share insights, ask questions, or simply follow along, we'd love to have you. The discussion will unfold gradually, so you can read at your own pace and jump in whenever you're ready. It's a great way to connect with fellow readers, explore new works together, and deepen your appreciation for the novella form.For the first book, the schedule will be as follows:* April 6: Start of the book through Section 9* April 9: Section 10 through Section 16* April 13: Section 17 through the endShownotesBooks* Lesser Ruins, by Mark Haber* Melvill, by Rodrigo Fresán, translated by Will Vanderhyden* Like a Sky Inside, by Jakuta Alikavazovic, translated by Daniel Levin Becker* The Case of Cem, by Vera Mutafchieva, translated by Angela Rodel* Your Absence Is Darkness, by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, translated by Philip Roughton* Small Rain, by Garth Greenwell* Command Performance, by Jean Echenoz, translated * Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf* To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf* The Waves, by Virginia Woolf* The Voyage Out, by Virginia Woolf* Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel, by Mark Hussey* Trafik, by Rikki Ducornet* We're Safe When We're Alone, by Nghiem Tran* Cecilia, by K-Ming Chang* Small Things Like These, by Claire Keegan* Chess Story, by Stefan Zweig, translated by Joel Rotenberg* The Guest Cat, by Takashi Hiraide, translated by Eric Selland* The Stepdaughter, by Caroline Blackwood* Great Granny Webster, by Caroline Blackwood* So Long, See You Tomorrow, by William Maxwell* Fever Dream, by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell* Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson* The Body, by Stephen King* The Long Walk, by Stephen King* First Love, by Ivan Turgenev, translated by Isaiah Berlin* Giovanni's Room, by James Baldwin* The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark* The Turn of the Screw, by Henry JamesOther* Episode 27: Short Books, Fiction* “Ten haunting, atmospheric novellas I highly recommend”: JacquiWine's JournalThe Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a bookish conversation hosted by Paul and Trevor. Every other week, we explore a bookish topic and celebrate our love of reading. We're glad you're here, and we hope you'll continue to join us on this literary journey!A huge thank you to those who help make this podcast possible! If you'd like to support us, you can do so via Substack or Patreon. Subscribers receive access to periodic bonus episodes and early access to all new episodes. Plus, each supporter gets their own dedicated feed, allowing them to download episodes a few days before they're released to the public. We'd love for you to check it out! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe

1878, "The Sparrow" by Ivan Turgenev

The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The "boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her" story is universal but not, I think, banal - despite a surprise ending which notoriously turns out to be very little of a surprise.First Love is given its originality and poignancy by Turgenev's mastery of the piercing turning-point (akin to Joyce's "epiphanies") that transforms the character's whole being, making a tragic outcome inevitable. Even the nature symbolism is rescued from triteness by lovely poetic similes - e.g. "but at that point my attention was arrested by the appearance of a speckled woodpecker who busily climbed up the slender stem of a birch-tree and peeped out uneasily from behind it, first to the right, then to the left, like a musician behind the bass-viol." Translated by Constance Garnett.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The "boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her" story is universal but not, I think, banal - despite a surprise ending which notoriously turns out to be very little of a surprise.First Love is given its originality and poignancy by Turgenev's mastery of the piercing turning-point (akin to Joyce's "epiphanies") that transforms the character's whole being, making a tragic outcome inevitable. Even the nature symbolism is rescued from triteness by lovely poetic similes - e.g. "but at that point my attention was arrested by the appearance of a speckled woodpecker who busily climbed up the slender stem of a birch-tree and peeped out uneasily from behind it, first to the right, then to the left, like a musician behind the bass-viol." Translated by Constance Garnett.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The "boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her" story is universal but not, I think, banal - despite a surprise ending which notoriously turns out to be very little of a surprise.First Love is given its originality and poignancy by Turgenev's mastery of the piercing turning-point (akin to Joyce's "epiphanies") that transforms the character's whole being, making a tragic outcome inevitable. Even the nature symbolism is rescued from triteness by lovely poetic similes - e.g. "but at that point my attention was arrested by the appearance of a speckled woodpecker who busily climbed up the slender stem of a birch-tree and peeped out uneasily from behind it, first to the right, then to the left, like a musician behind the bass-viol." Translated by Constance Garnett.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Our fourth Great Political Fiction is Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons (1862), the definitive novel about the politics – and emotions – of intergenerational conflict. How did Turgenev manage to write a wistful novel about nihilism? What made Russian politics in the early 1860s so chock-full of frustration? Why did Turgenev's book infuriate his contemporaries – including Dostoyevsky?Tomorrow: George Eliot's Middlemarch Parts 1 & 2Find out more about Past Present Future on our new website www.ppfideas.com where you can also join PPF+ to get bonus episodes and ad-free listening. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Review of Diary Of A Superfluous Man a novella written in 1850 by the Russian author Ivan Turgenev. Read on Becoming The Muse:

Leadership Lessons From The Great Books #103 - Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev w/Libby Unger---00:00 Welcome and Introduction - Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev. 04:00 The Challenges of InterGenerational Communication During Social Unraveling.11:03 The Literary Life of Ivan Turgenev.12:31 Serfdom in Russia and American Slavery: A Comparative Analysis.17:51 Turgenev's Attempts to Balance Progressivism and Traditionalism in Russia.25:14 Barazov, Arakdy, Nikolai, and Pavel Confront Chaos and Uncertainty.31:34 Leaders and the Revolutionary Moment in the US in 2020.35:15 Leadership Tips: Question Beliefs, Seek Deeper Understanding, Awaken Realization.41:19 Moving the Overton Window: Iran-Israel Tensions and New Conversation Dynamics.48:11 Pavel Petrovich Versus Eugene Bazarov: Maturity versus Youth.49:51 Russian Nihilism and InterGenerational Communication in the US in the 21st Century.58:28 Youth idealism gives way to maturity.01:04:22 Corporate client seeks diversity training, company criticized.01:10:01 Startups funded by VCs lack accountability, value.01:16:34 Cash flow allows innovation, attract talent, accountability.01:22:00 Man becomes infatuated with shy, young woman.01:26:07 Arkady's Perspective Impacts Russian State Policy.01:29:47 Questioning beliefs, planting seeds for open-mindedness.01:34:06 People change when they're ready, with awareness.01:40:01  Staying on the Path with Insights from Fathers and Sons.---Opening and closing themes composed by Brian Sanyshyn of Brian Sanyshyn Music.---Pick up your copy of 12 Rules for Leaders: The Foundation of Intentional Leadership NOW on AMAZON!Check out the Leadership Lessons From the Great Books podcast reading list!---Check out HSCT Publishing at: https://www.hsctpublishing.com/.Check out LeadingKeys at: https://www.leadingkeys.com/Check out Leadership ToolBox at: https://leadershiptoolbox.us/Contact HSCT for more information at 1-833-216-8296 to schedule a full DEMO of LeadingKeys with one of our team members.---Leadership ToolBox website: https://leadershiptoolbox.us/.Leadership ToolBox LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ldrshptlbx/.Leadership ToolBox YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@leadershiptoolbox/videos.Leadership ToolBox Twitter: https://twitter.com/ldrshptlbx.Leadership ToolBox IG: https://www.instagram.com/leadershiptoolboxus/.Leadership ToolBox FB: https://www.facebook.com/LdrshpTlbx.

On today's show, Rachael and I discuss George Saunders's discussion of seven short stories by Russian authors. Since Saunders's book is the result of teaching these stories in MFA craft courses over multiple decades, this book and today's discussion simulates an important part of the MFA experience, for those who wonder what that might be like. The stories: Anton Chekhov's "In the Cart" (1897) Ivan Turgenev's "The Singers" (1852) Anton Chekhov's "The Darling" (1899) Leo Tolstoy's "Master and Man" (1895) Nikolai Gogol's "The Nose" (1836) Anton Chekhov's "Gooseberries" (1898) Leo Tolstoy's "Alyosha The Pot" (1905)

Tessa Hadley (winner of a 2016 Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction) joins Michael Kelleher for the final episode of this winter mini-season to talk about Ivan Turgenev's First Love, translated by Isaiah Berlin. Reading list:  First Love by Ivan Turgenev, tr. by Isaiah Berlin • The Odyssey by Homer • "A Nest of Gentlefolk" by Ivan Turgenev • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Tessa Hadley is the author of three previous collections of stories and eight novels. She was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction, the Hawthornden Prize, and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize and has been a finalist for the Story Prize. She contributes regularly to The New Yorker and reviews for The Guardian and the London Review of Books. She lives in Cardiff, Wales. The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast is a program of The Windham-Campbell Prizes, which are administered by Yale University Library's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

This week's Great Political Fiction is Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons (1862), the definitive novel about the politics – and emotions – of intergenerational conflict. How did Turgenev manage to write a wistful novel about nihilism? What made Russian politics in the early 1860s so chock-full of frustration? Why did Turgenev's book infuriate his contemporaries – including Dostoyevsky?More from the LRB:Pankaj Mishra on the disillusionment of Alexander Herzen '"Emancipation", he concluded, "has finally proved to be as insolvent as redemption".'Julian Barnes on Turgenev and Flaubert ‘When the two of them meet, they are already presenting themselves as elderly men in their early forties (Turgenev asserts that after 40 the basis of life is renunciation).' Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Show Notes:  https://wetflyswing.com/546 Presented By: Daiichi, Virginia Fly Fishing & Wine Festival If someone says the word fly fishing, where do you go in your head? In today's episode, New York Times writer Peter Kaminsky takes us on a journey through the pages of his latest book The Catch of a Lifetime. We hear captivating stories from Peter's fly fishing adventures and writing career. Stick around because Peter also dishes out some mouthwatering cooking techniques that are bound to tantalize your taste buds. Show Notes with Peter Kaminsky on Catch of a Lifetime.  01:44 - Peter first got into fly fishing during a vacation from working at the National Lampoon in the mid-'70s. He stumbled upon a fishing camp in Boca Paila, witnessing fly fishermen in action. 02:52 - When he returned to New York, he went on a Catskills trip with Jeff Norman.  There, he encountered Doug Swisher and attended his clinic for two days. 03:50 - After getting fired at the National Lampoon, Peter started writing for outdoor magazines like Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, and Sports Afield. 04:35 - Peter also had the chance to build a connection with Nick Lyons through his work. This led to a remarkable opportunity when, in the early '80s, Nick recommended Peter to write for the outdoors column at The New York Times. 11:50 - Peter and his brother created the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center, overseeing its production for two decades. The Works of Peter Kaminsky 17:20 - One of Peter's most famous works, which overlaps into the outdoors realm, is the book Seven Fires with Francis Mallmann. He also did a book with John Madden called John Madden's Ultimate Tailgating. 21:43 - Peter Kaminsky shared the story behind his new book The Catch of a Lifetime. The book features short pieces from various contributors like Nick Lyons, John McPhee, and Rachel Maddow. 32:45 - Peter also talks about his connection with Flylords, which he discovered during COVID-19. He recently worked with them on a new video series called Flavor on the Fly. 35:24 - Peter shares a simple and effective cooking technique for fish from his book How to Dress an Egg with Ned Baldwin. 48:20 - Some of Peter's literary influences include Nick Lyons, A.J. McLean, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, and Ivan Turgenev. Check out our episode featuring The Life and Works of Ernest Hemingway with Mark Cirino. Show Notes:  https://wetflyswing.com/546  

This week, we’re heading off to jolly ol’ Russia for a bit of nineteenth century whimsey titled “Clara Militch” or “Klara Milich” or any number of permutations. It’s by Ivan Turgenev and it’s a real cracker! By which I mean, we were utterly confused by it.

For many of us, reading is like taking a holiday. But this week, we dive into true literary holidays as we discuss some of our favorite bookish destinations, as well as a few that are on our bucket lists. Where are your top literary destinations?ShownotesBooks* Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, by Heather Clark* The Bridge of Beyond, by Simone Schwarz-Bart, translated by Barbara Bray* Shady Hollow, by Juneau Black* The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Michael R. Katz* War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Anthony Briggs* Divorcing, by Susan Taubes* Transit, by Anna Seghers, translated by Margaret Bettauer Dembo * Lies and Sorcery, by Elsa Morante, translated by Jenny McPhee* The Expendable Man, by Dorothy B. Hughes* Thus Were Their Faces, by Silvina Ocampo, translated Daniel Balderston* Motley Stones, by Adalbert Stifter, translated by Isabel Fargo Cole* Rock Crystal, by Adalbert Stifter, translated by Elizabeth Mayer and Marianne Moore* Temptation, by János Székely, translated by Mark Baczoni* Mary Olivier: A Life, by May Sinclair* Hons and Rebels, by Jessica Mitford* Virgin Soil, by Ivan Turgenev, translated by Constance Garnett* The Selected Works of Cesare Pavese, translated by R.W. Flint* The Moon and the Bonfire, by Cesare Pavese, translated by R.W. Flint* Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole* The Shining, by Stephen King* Carrie, by Stephen King* ‘Salem's Lot, by Stephen King* Centennial, by James Michener* Augustus, by John WilliamsOther* PEG the Book Prize Addict's YoutubeAbout the PodcastThe Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another.Please join us! You can subscribe at Apple podcasts or go to the feed to import to your favorite podcatcher.Many thanks to those who helped make this possible! If you'd like to donate as well, you can do so on Substack or on our Patreon page. Patreon subscribers get regular bonus episode and early access to all episodes! Every supporter has their own feed that he or she can use in their podcast app of choice to download our episodes a few days early. Please go check it out! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe

Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary. It is the first in a series of three novels and is followed by Boyhood and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, the book was an immediate success, earning notice from other Russian novelists including Ivan Turgenev, who heralded the young Tolstoy as a major up-and-coming figure in Russian literature. Childhood is an exploration of the inner life of a young boy, Nikolenka, and one of the books in Russian writing to explore an expressionistic style, mixing fact, fiction and emotions to render the moods and reactions of the narrator. (From Wikipedia.)Translated by Charles James Hogarth.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary. It is the first in a series of three novels and is followed by Boyhood and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, the book was an immediate success, earning notice from other Russian novelists including Ivan Turgenev, who heralded the young Tolstoy as a major up-and-coming figure in Russian literature. Childhood is an exploration of the inner life of a young boy, Nikolenka, and one of the books in Russian writing to explore an expressionistic style, mixing fact, fiction and emotions to render the moods and reactions of the narrator. (From Wikipedia.)Translated by Charles James Hogarth.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Support me by becoming wiser and more knowledgeable – check out Isaiah Berlin's collection of books for sale on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/43JSBdO If you purchase a book through this link, I will earn a 4.5% commission and be extremely delighted. But if you just want to read and aren't ready to add a new book to your collection yet, I'd recommend checking out the ⁠⁠⁠Internet Archive⁠⁠⁠, the largest free digital library in the world. If you're really feeling benevolent you can buy me a coffee or donate over at ⁠https://ko-fi.com/theunadulteratedintellect⁠⁠. I would seriously appreciate it! __________________________________________________ Sir Isaiah Berlin (24 May/6 June 1909 – 5 November 1997) was a Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas. Although he became increasingly averse to writing for publication, his improvised lectures and talks were sometimes recorded and transcribed, and many of his spoken words were converted into published essays and books, both by himself and by others, especially his principal editor from 1974, Henry Hardy. Born in Riga (now the capital of Latvia, then a part of the Russian Empire) in 1909, he moved to Petrograd, Russia, at the age of six, where he witnessed the revolutions of 1917. In 1921 his family moved to the UK, and he was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. In 1932, at the age of twenty-three, Berlin was elected to a prize fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford. In addition to his own prolific output, he translated works by Ivan Turgenev from Russian into English and, during World War II, worked for the British Diplomatic Service. From 1957 to 1967 he was Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at the University of Oxford. He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1963 to 1964. In 1966, he played a critical role in creating Wolfson College, Oxford, and became its founding President. Berlin was appointed a CBE in 1946, knighted in 1957, and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1971. He was President of the British Academy from 1974 to 1978. He also received the 1979 Jerusalem Prize for his lifelong defence of civil liberties, and on 25 November 1994 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at the University of Toronto, for which occasion he prepared a "short credo" (as he called it in a letter to a friend), now known as "A Message to the Twenty-First Century", to be read on his behalf at the ceremony. An annual Isaiah Berlin Lecture is held at the Hampstead Synagogue, at Wolfson College, Oxford, at the British Academy, and in Riga. Berlin's work on liberal theory and on value pluralism, as well as his opposition to Marxism and communism, has had a lasting influence. Audio sources ⁠here⁠⁠ and here Full Wikipedia entry ⁠here⁠ Isaiah Berlin's books ⁠here --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theunadulteratedintellect/support

Crime And PunishmentCrime And Punishment Full Book Introduction This is the story of Raskolnikov, an impoverished and lonely university student. To improve his family's living conditions and support himself, he robs and murders a selfish old woman. She is predatory and exploitative, amassing wealth and valuables as a loan shark. After the crime, he suffers excruciating remorse and inner torment. Raskolnikov becomes anxious and delirious. Finally, Sonia, a kindly and compassionate prostitute, inspires him to surrender to the authorities, and thus he experiences a tumultuous rebirth of the soul. Author : Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky was a Russian realist writer born in 1821. He completed his first novel, Poor Folk, in 1845 and it received widespread acclaim. This early success paved the way for a brilliant literary career. His most renowned works include The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Insulted and the Injured, The Idiot, and The House of the Dead. Dostoevsky's writings often focus on the inner dilemmas and suffering of underprivileged individuals from the lower strata of society. Dostoevsky uses in-depth psychological descriptions to create convincing character portraits. Overview | Chapter 1Hi, welcome to Bookey. Today we will unlock the novel Crime and Punishment. Fyodor Dostoevsky, the work's author, was a realist writer. Alongside Leo Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev, he was one of the three towering figures of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Crime and Punishment is one of his most celebrated works and is widely acknowledged as a masterpiece. The novel explores social psychology as well as telling the story of crime and detection. It takes place in Saint Petersburg around the middle of the nineteenth century. The narrative concerns Raskolnikov, a university law student. After committing a murder, he is wracked by inner torment. Finally, he experiences a spiritual rebirth, but not until he has been inspired to turn himself in by Sonia, a kindly Christian soul. In the book, Dostoevsky masterfully details the psychological changes that occur after the murderer commits their crime. In 1864, Fyodor Dostoevsky, with his brother Mikhail founded the literary magazine Epokha. The magazine published Fyodor's and other authors' works. After the death in the same year of both Fyodor's first wife, Maria, and Mikhail, Dostoevsky fell into financial difficulty, running up huge debts with his creditors. It forced him to stop publishing the magazine and commit to an unfair contract with another publisher for his work. However, this unfavorable agreement led to the completion of this novel, Crime and Punishment. Many of Dostoevsky's writings are introspective and discreet. His dissection of the human psyche is simultaneously comprehensive and profound, barbed and unforgiving, expansive and detailed. The Austrian writer Franz Kafka once said, “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.” Dostoevsky's works can be considered as such axes. If Tolstoy has shown us the breadth of Russian literature, then it can be said that Dostoevsky represents its depth. Through his writings, Dostoevsky, having himself experienced life's hardships, attempts to expose society's darkness and criminality. He describes the living conditions and sufferings of the underprivileged and expresses his heartfelt sympathy for their plight. He articulates the need for social change. As the Russian poet Merezhkovsky once said, Dostoevsky is sometimes closer to us than our loved ones. In sickness, he is a fellow patient. In both good and evil deeds, he is an accomplice. Nothing brings people...

Mario Caramitti"Alla vigilia"Ivan TurgenevCarbonio Editorehttps://carbonioeditore.itNel 1853, alla vigilia della guerra di Crimea, la giovane e testarda Elena, figlia di aristocratici russi, si innamora di Dmitrij Insarov, un rivoluzionario bulgaro che sogna di liberare la sua patria dalla dominazione ottomana. Decisa a sposarlo contro il volere della sua famiglia, Elena abbandona la casa paterna e la sua terra natia per seguirlo in un viaggio che la porterà lontano, rincorrendo un sogno d'amore, rivoluzione e ideali. Nel racconto di un'estate in dacia, tra gite, schermaglie e motteggi, sogni e paure, sfociata in un ardimentoso viaggio in Europa, si snoda una narrazione serrata e avvincente, dalla quale emergono i temi essenziali per l'autore e i suoi contemporanei: la contrapposizione fra la Russia e l'Europa analizzata da molteplici angolazioni, i compiti dell'intelligencija di fronte alla società, la nuova centralità del ruolo della donna. Turgenev lascia palpitare il cuore in quello che è uno dei classici più amati dell'Ottocento, reso qui in una nuova traduzione, vivida e pulsante, che ne restituisce tutto l'impeto moderno e l'indomabile forza giovanile.Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) è considerato uno dei padri della letteratura russa. Nato a Orël, si specializzò in studi classici alle Università di Mosca e Pietroburgo, per poi trasferirsi all'Università di Berlino per proseguire gli studi di filosofia. Tornato in patria, si distinse per le sue posizioni progressiste e filo-occidentali, schierandosi a favore dell'abolizione della servitù della gleba. Visse gran parte della vita tra la Germania e Parigi, dove strinse una salda amicizia con Gustave Flaubert. Conobbe anche Tolstoj e Dostoevskij, con i quali ebbe un rapporto a tratti burrascoso e conflittuale.Tra le sue opere ricordiamo Memorie di un cacciatore (1852), Nido di nobili (1859) e Padri e figli (1862).Mario Caramitti, professore associato, insegna letteratura russa alla Sapienza. Divide le sue forze tra la ricerca (Letteratura russa contemporanea. La scrittura come resistenza, 2010; Classici alla finestra, 2020) e la traduzione (oltre venti libri), che considera il più prezioso strumento ermeneutico. Scrive regolarmente di letteratura russa su “Alias” e ha curato antologie sulle avanguardie postsovietiche (Schegge di Russia) e storiche (Fuoco e Sogni), fino a Voci russe contro la guerra (con Massimo Maurizio, open access, 2022).IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.itQuesto show fa parte del network Spreaker Prime. Se sei interessato a fare pubblicità in questo podcast, contattaci su https://www.spreaker.com/show/1487855/advertisement

(NOTAS Y ENLACES DEL CAPÍTULO AQUÍ: https://www.jaimerodriguezdesantiago.com/kaizen/164-marta-fernandez-confesiones-embarazosas-mentiras-valientes-y-un-texto-erotico-casi-mortal/)La entrevista de esta semana es seguramente diferente a la mayoría de las que he hecho hasta ahora. Por distintos motivos, además.El primero es que esta grabación fue una especie de experimento porque tenía muchas ganas de retomar las entrevistas presenciales, porque creo que se genera una química especial. Aunque, dado que ahora en mi casa manda una pequeña dictadora, que no respeta mucho los horarios ni los silencios necesarios para grabar un podcast, hacerlo era un poco reto. Así, confieso que le eché un poco de morro y pregunté en twitter si alguien me dejaría un espacio para grabar y resulta que la gente es maravillosa. Me ofrecieron como 10 o 12 sitios en Madrid y algunos más fuera. Muchas gracias desde aquí a todos y, en especial a mi admirado José Luis Antúnez, porque a través de él surgió la posibilidad de grabar donde acabamos haciéndolo: en el Instituto Tramontana, uno de los lugares más especiales que conozco. Allí se respira el gusto por el diseño y la comunicación en cada rincón. Así que para allá me fui yo con la grabadora, los micros, trípodes y un par de móviles; porque el experimento consistía también en grabarlo en vídeo. Y creo que ha quedado inesperadamente bien para ser la primera vez que lo hacía así. Si te animas a verlo en YouTube ya me contarás. Pero esta entrevista es diferente también por otra razón. Por lo general, cuando invito a alguien al podcast tengo bastante claro por qué lo hago y de qué quiero que charlemos. En esta ocasión, sin embargo, de lo único de lo que estaba seguro era de que me apetecía hablar con mi invitada, aunque no sabía muy bien sobre qué. Si no sabía cómo abordar la conversación fue, en parte, por una anécdota muy tonta que le cuento al principio de nuestra charla y que no te voy a desvelar aún. Pero, sobre todo, el motivo por el que no tenía claro cómo enfocar la charla era que Marta Fernández no es fácilmente clasificable. Porque la primera tentación es, sin duda, hablar con ella de su experiencia en los medios. ¿O no querrías tú hacerle preguntas a una persona que ha estado más de 20 años trabajando en algunos de los principales informativos de España? Marta fue la cara visible de los informativos de CNN+, Cuatro y Telecinco y tuvo que dar noticias de todo tipo, incluídos algunos momentos fundamentales de nuestra historia moderna, como los atentados del 11S, y otros que son fundamentales para mí y cuatro más, como la demanda que las empresas de autobús puso a BlaBlacar. Por dar, Marta llegó a dar hasta unas campanadas de fin de año. Y, sin embargo, por apasionante que pueda ser ese mundo periodístico y televisivo, creo que la Marta más interesante no es esa. Porque hay otra. O, mejor dicho, hay otras muchas. Detrás de quien nos contaba las noticias estaba, para empezar, una escritora. Alguien que necesita escribir para ser ella misma y que lo ha hecho en libros y en artículos de los que se desprende un enorme amor por la literatura, el cine, la música y el arte, en general. Su último libro, además, se titula La mentira y lo ha dedicado a historias de grandes mentirosos y embaucadores. Entre otros, curiosamente, aquel Gregor McGregor del que te hablé en el capítulo 152, en la que es una de mis historias de timos e irracionalidad colectiva favorita. En el mundo de las mentiras, de los cobardes, de la escritura, de los medios, de nuestros recuerdos de adolescencia y en otras muchas cosas nos sumergimos en nuestra charla. Incluso, a lo largo de la conversación con Marta yo hago un par de confesiones un poco embarazosas, que quise mantener en secreto para ella hasta que habláramos, para ver cómo reaccionaba durante la entrevista y de las que nos reímos juntos. Ahora, dicho todo esto, vamos a lo importante de verdad: espero que disfrutes mucho de esta conversación con Marta Fernández. 

First Love by Ivan Turgenev audiobook. The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The 'boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her' story is universal but not, I think, banal - despite a surprise ending which notoriously turns out to be very little of a surprise. First Love is given its originality and poignancy by Turgenev's mastery of the piercing turning-point (akin to Joyce's 'epiphanies') that transforms the character's whole being, making a tragic outcome inevitable. Even the nature symbolism is rescued from triteness by lovely poetic similes - e.g. 'but at that point my attention was arrested by the appearance of a speckled woodpecker who busily climbed up the slender stem of a birch-tree and peeped out uneasily from behind it, first to the right, then to the left, like a musician behind the bass-viol.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Childhood by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Childhood, published in 1852, is the first novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, which also includes Boyhood, and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was twenty-three, the book gained immediate notice among Russian writers including Ivan Turgenev, and heralded the young Tolstoy as a major figure in Russian letters. Childhood is an expressionist exploration of the internal life of a young boy, Nikolenka, and was a new form in Russian writing, mixing fact, fiction and emotions to render the moods and reactions of the narrator. Childhood is Tolstoy's first published work. Translated into English by C. J. Hogarth.

Poet, novelist, translator, journalist, crime fiction writer, children's book author, teacher, math tutor: now here is a man who contains multitudes. Jerry Pinto joins Amit Varma in episode 314 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about his life and learnings. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out: 1. Jerry Pinto on Instagram, Amazon and his own website. 2. Em and the Big Hoom -- Jerry Pinto. 3. The Education of Yuri -- Jerry Pinto. 4. Murder in Mahim -- Jerry Pinto. 5. A Book of Light -- Edited by Jerry Pinto. 6. Baluta -- Daya Pawar (translated by Jerry Pinto). 7. I Have Not Seen Mandu -- Swadesh Deepak (translated by Jerry Pinto). 8. Cobalt Blue -- Sachin Kundalkar (translated by Jerry Pinto). 9. The Life and Times of Shanta Gokhale -- Episode 311 of The Seen and the Unseen. 10. ‘Sometimes I feel I have to be completely invisible as a poet' -- Jerry Pinto's interview of Adil Jussawalla. 11. A Godless Congregation — Amit Varma. 12. The Rooted Cosmopolitanism of Sugata Srinivasaraju — Episode 277 of The Seen and the Unseen. 13. The Big Questions — Steven E Landsburg. 14. Unlikely is Inevitable — Amit Varma. 15. The Law of Truly Large Numbers. 16. The Gentle Wisdom of Pratap Bhanu Mehta — Episode 300 of The Seen and the Unseen. 17. Young India — Episode 83 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Snigdha Poonam). 18. Dreamers — Snigdha Poonam. 19. The Loneliness of the Indian Man — Episode 303 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Nikhil Taneja). 20. The History Boys -- Alan Bennett. 21. The Connell Guide to How to Write Well -- Tim de Lisle. 22. Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut -- Marcus Du Sautoy. 23. Dead Poet's Society -- Peter Weir. 24. A Mathematician's Apology -- GH Hardy. 25. The Man Who Knew Infinity -- Robert Kanigel. 26. David Berlinski and Martin Gardner on Amazon, and Mukul Sharma on Wikipedia.. 27. Range Rover -- The archives of Amit Varma's column on poker for The Economic Times. 28. Luck is All Around -- Amit Varma. 29. Stoicism on Wikipedia, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Britannica. 30. House of the Dead —  Fyodor Dostoevsky. 31. Black Beauty -- Anna Sewell. 32. Lady Chatterley's Lover -- DH Lawrence. 33. Mr Norris Changes Trains -- Chistopher Isherwood. 34. Sigrid Undset on Amazon and Wikipedia. 35. Some Prefer Nettles -- Junichiro Tanizaki. 36. Things Fall Apart — Chinua Achebe. 37. Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy on Amazon. 38. Orientalism -- Edward Said. 39. Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Kurt Vonnegut on Amazon. 40. Johnny Got His Gun -- Dalton Trumbo. 41. Selected Poems -- Kamala Das. 42. Collected Poems -- Kamala Das. 43. In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones — Pradip Krishen. 44. Dance Dance For the Halva Waala — Episode 294 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Jai Arjun Singh and Subrat Mohanty). 45. Tosca -- Giacomo Puccini. 46. Civilisation by Kenneth Clark on YouTube and Wikipedia. 47. Archives of The World This Week. 48. Dardi Rab Rab Kardi -- Daler Mehndi. 49. Is Old Music Killing New Music? — Ted Gioia. 50. Mother India (Mehboob Khan) and Mughal-E-Azam (K Asif). 51. A Meditation on Form — Amit Varma. 52. Sara Rai Inhales Literature — Episode 255 of The Seen and the Unseen. 53. Collected Poems — Mark Strand. 54. Forgive Me, Mother -- Eunice de Souza. 55. Porphyria's Lover -- Robert Browning. 56. Island -- Nissim Ezekiel. 57. Paper Menagerie — Ken Liu. 58. Jhumpa Lahiri on Writing, Translation, and Crossing Between Cultures — Episode 17 of Conversations With Tyler. 59. The Notebook Trilogy — Agota Kristof. 60. Amitava Kumar Finds the Breath of Life — Episode 265 of The Seen and the Unseen. 61. The Blue Book: A Writer's Journal — Amitava Kumar. 62. Nissim Ezekiel on Amazon, Wikipedia and All Poetry. 63. Adil Jussawalla on Amazon, Wikipedia and Poetry International. 64. Eunice de Souza on Amazon, Wikipedia and Poetry International. 65. Dom Moraes on Amazon, Wikipedia and Poem Hunter. 66. WH Auden and Stephen Spender on Amazon. 67. Pilloo Pochkhanawala on Wikipedia and JNAF. 68. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra on Amazon, Wikipedia and Poetry Foundation. 69. Amar Akbar Anthony -- Manmohan Desai. 67. Ranjit Hoskote on Amazon, Instagram, Twitter, Wikipedia and Poetry International. 71. Arundhathi Subramaniam on Amazon, Instagram, Wikipedia, Poetry International and her own website. 72. The Red Wheelbarrow -- William Carlos Williams. 73. Mary Oliver's analysis of The Red Wheelbarrow. 74. A Poetry Handbook — Mary Oliver. 75. The War Against Cliche -- Martin Amis. 76. Seamus Heaney on Amazon, Wikipedia and Poetry Foundation. 77. The world behind 'Em and the Big Hoom' -- Jerry Pinto interviewed by Swetha Amit. 78. Jerry Pinto interviewed for the New York Times by Max Bearak. 79. Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh and GV Desani on Amazon. 80. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen on the creator ecosystem with Roshan Abbas, Varun Duggirala, Neelesh Misra, Snehal Pradhan, Chuck Gopal, Nishant Jain, Deepak Shenoy and Abhijit Bhaduri. 81. Graham Greene, W Somerset Maugham and Aldous Huxley on Amazon. 82. Surviving Men -- Shobhaa De. 83. Surviving Men -- Jerry Pinto. 84. The Essays of GK Chesterton. 85. The Life and Times of Nilanjana Roy — Episode 284 of The Seen and the Unseen. 86. City Improbable: Writings on Delhi -- Edited by Khushwant Singh. 87. Bombay, Meri Jaan -- Edited by Jerry Pinto and Naresh Fernandes. 88. The Life and Times of Urvashi Butalia — Episode 287 of The Seen and the Unseen. 89. Films, Feminism, Paromita — Episode 155 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Paromita Vohra). 90. Wanting -- Luke Burgis. 91. Kalpish Ratna and Sjowall & Wahloo on Amazon. 92. Memories and Things — Episode 195 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Aanchal Malhotra). 93. Ashad ka Ek Din -- Mohan Rakesh. 94. Anna Karenina -- Leo Tolstoy (translated by Constance Garnett). 95. Gordon Lish: ‘Had I not revised Carver, would he be paid the attention given him? Baloney!' -- Christian Lorentzen.. 96. Sooraj Barjatya and Yash Chopra. 97. The Life and Times of Mrinal Pande — Episode 263 of The Seen and the Unseen. 98. Don't think too much of yourself. You're an accident — Amit Varma. 99. Phineas Gage. 100. Georges Simenon on Amazon and Wikipedia.. 101. The Interpreter -- Amit Varma on Michael Gazzaniga's iconic neuroscience experiment. 102. The Life and Times of Abhinandan Sekhri — Episode 254 of The Seen and the Unseen.. 103. Madame Bovary -- Gustave Flaubert. 104. Self-Portrait — AK Ramanujan. 105. Ivan Turgenev, Ryu Murakami and Patricia Highsmith on Amazon. 106. A Clockwork Orange -- Anthony Burgess. 107. On Exactitude in Science — Jorge Luis Borges. 110. Playwright at the Centre: Marathi Drama from 1843 to the Present — Shanta Gokhale. 111. Kubla Khan -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 112. Girish Shahane, Naresh Fernandes, Suketu Mehta, David Godwin and Kiran Desai. 113. The Count of Monte Cristo -- Alexandre Dumas. 114. Pedro Almodóvar and Yasujirō Ozu. 115. The Art of Translation — Episode 168 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Arunava Sinha). 116. The Lives of the Poets -- Samuel Johnson. 117. Lives of the Women -- Various authors, edited by Jerry Pinto. 118. Lessons from an Ankhon Dekhi Prime Minister — Amit Varma. 119. On Bullshit — Harry Frankfurt. 120. The Facts Do Not Matter — Amit Varma. 121. Beware of the Useful Idiots — Amit Varma. 122. Modi's Lost Opportunity — Episode 119 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Salman Soz). 123. Kesavananda Bharati v. 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Not Dark Yet (official) (newly released outtake) -- Bob Dylan.. 140. How This Nobel Has Redefined Literature -- Amit Varma on Dylan winning the Nobel Prize.. 141. The New World Upon Us — Amit Varma. 142. PG Wodehouse on Amazon and Wikipedia. 143. I Heard the Owl Call My Name -- Margaret Craven. 144. 84, Charing Cross Road -- Helen Hanff. 145. Great Expectations, Little Dorrit and Bleak House -- Charles Dickens. 146. Middlemarch -- George Eliot. 147. The Pillow Book -- Sei Shonagon. 148. The Diary of Lady Murasaki -- Murasaki Shikibu. 149. My Experiments With Truth -- Mohandas Gandhi. 150. Ariel -- Sylvia Plath. 151. Jejuri -- Arun Kolatkar. 152. Missing Person -- Adil Jussawalla. 153. All About H Hatterr -- GV Desani. 154. The Ground Beneath Her Feet -- Salman Rushdie. 155. A Fine Balance -- Rohinton Mistry. 156. Tales from Firozsha Baag -- Rohinton Mistry. 157. Amores Perros -- Alejandro G Iñárritu. 158. Samira Makhmalbaf on Wikipedia and IMDb. 159. Ingmar Bergman on Wikipedia and IMDb. 160. The Silence, Autumn Sonata and Wild Strawberries - Ingmar Bergman. 161. The Mahabharata. 162. Yuganta — Irawati Karve. 163. Kalyug -- Shyam Benegal. 164. The Hungry Tide -- Amitav Ghosh. 165. On Hinduism and The Hindus -- Wendy Doniger. 166. I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Dĕd — Lal Dĕd (translated by Ranjit Hoskote). 167. The Essential Kabir -- Arvind Krishna Mehrotra. 168. The Absent Traveller -- Arvind Krishna Mehrotra. 169. These My Words: The Penguin Book of Indian Poetry -- Edited by Eunice de Souza and Melanie Silgardo. This episode is sponsored by CTQ Compounds. Check out The Daily Reader and FutureStack. Use the code UNSEEN for Rs 2500 off. Check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. And subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It's free! Episode art: ‘He is Reading' by Simahina.

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev audiobook. The fathers and children of the novel refers to the growing divide between the two generations of Russians, and the character Yevgeny Bazarov has been referred to as the "first Bolshevik", for his nihilism and rejection of the old order. Turgenev wrote Fathers and Sons as a response to the growing cultural schism that he saw between liberals of the 1830s/1840s and the growing nihilist movement. Both the nihilists (the "sons") and the 1830s liberals sought Western-based social change in Russia. Additionally, these two modes of thought were contrasted with the conservative Slavophiles, who believed that Russia's path lay in its traditional spirituality. Fathers and Sons might be regarded as the first wholly modern novel in Russian Literature (Gogol's Dead Souls, another main contender, is sometimes referred to as a poem or epic in prose as in the style of Dante's Divine Comedy). The novel introduces a dual character study, as seen with the gradual breakdown of Bazarov's and Arkady's nihilistic opposition to emotional display, especially in the case of Bazarov's love for Madame Odintsova and Fenichka. This prominent theme of character duality and deep psychological insight would exert an influence on most of the great Russian novels to come, most obviously echoed in the novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. The novel is also the first Russian work to gain prominence in the Western world, eventually gaining the approval of well established novelists Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, and Henry James, proving that Russian literature owes much to Ivan Turgenev. 

Andrew Meehan talks about Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Amy Bloom, Joan Didion, Ivan Turgenev and much more as he discusses love, endings and sadness with Ruth McKee, choosing the books he would save if his house was on fire. Andrew Meehan's debut, One Star Awake was longlisted for the 2018 Desmond Elliott Prize, the UK's most prestigious award for debut novelists. His second book, The Mystery of Love, is a moving and unique reimagining of the relationship between Oscar and Constance Wilde. His latest novel, Instant Fires, is out now with New Island.

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Ivan Turgenev began his novel, Fathers and Sons, with a father, Nicholai Kirsanov, as he awaits the arrival of his son, Arcady, who after years of study in St. Petersburg, is paying a visit to the family estate. When Arcady arrives, he has with him his best friend and mentor, Evgeny Bazarov, a medical student--and nihilist.  Bazarov is skeptical about everything with the exception of science. It is a position that played well in cosmopolitan St. Petersburg, but which seems a bit out of place in farm country. Dr. Tiffany Schubert has taught the novel to our Wyoming Catholic College juniors and tells us a bit more about the book.

Fathers and Sons is a novel written by the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. It was published in 1862. The story centres around Bazarov—a self-proclaimed nihilist. In this episode, we discuss some of the perils of being a nihilist! 

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready, we shall never begin. – Ivan Turgenev

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready, we shall never begin. – Ivan Turgenev

In this episode, the Spine Crackers discuss Ivan Turgenev's legendary 1862 novel of family, friendship, generational difference, philosophy, and love Fathers and Sons. Enjoy!

This week we will survey nihilism in Russian literature with Maya Slater and Nicolas Pasternak Slater, translators of a new edition of Ivan Turgenev's https://bookshop.org/a/82618/9781681376356 (Fathers and Children). Turgenev's novel introduced nihilism as an idea to an entire generation of Russian dissidents - including Kropotkin. Join me as the Slaters show how nihilism is portrayed in this epoch-making novel, as well as famous depictions of nihilism in Russian writers from Gogol to Dostoevsky.

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Audio Transcript: This media has been made available by Mosaic Boston Church. If you'd like to check out more resources, learn about Mosaic Boston and our neighborhood churches, or donate to this ministry, please visit mosaicboston.com.Good morning. I don't know if you've heard, but Christ is risen. Christ is risen. Christ is risen. Praise God. I'm Jan, one of the pastors, and we're going to preach the word today, because there's power in the word of God. Would you pray with me over the preaching of God's holy word? Heavenly Father, we thank you that you are a great God and a holy God, blazing holiness. Not one of us can stand in your presence apart from the shielding of the righteousness of Jesus Christ. Jesus, we thank you that you lived a perfect life. Impeccable, no sin, perfect life of love toward God and love toward neighbor itself. And you loved us to the end, of going to a cross, bearing, excruciating physical anguish, and that was just the surface level of the pain as you bore the wrath of God on our behalf. We thank you, Jesus, that you didn't stay dead. Praise God. We thank you that you came back from the dead, and in the death of Christ, you dealt death a death blow.We praise you for that, and we thank you that you are the Great Conqueror, the Great Victor over Satan, sin, and death. And that when we trust in you by grace through faith, we are in you, shielded, protected. Your shield of favor covers us. We thank you for that. And I pray, Holy Spirit, you are with us, you are heavy in the room. I pray today for those who feel dead inside, for those who have experienced death of relationships or death of marriage. I pray today bring your resurrection power from the inside out, speak life to dry bones so that they come alive. In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen.My dear wife, Tanya, told me that in a suit I look like a funeral home director, which is appropriate because the title of sermon is Your End is Near, and we're all going to die. How much money do you have? You know the bottom line. You think about it all the time. Order magnitude. How much time do you have left? We have no idea. I don't have to be a mystic or a profit to know that every single one of us, our end is near, and on Good Friday we establish the fact that we're all sinners and we're guilty before a righteous and holy God. Ivan Turgenev said the following. He's a Russian poet writer. He says, "I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like, but I do know what the heart of a good man is like, and it's terrible." It's just terrible. The physical life is not all there is. We know that there's something that transcends the material life, that's God. So, the question before us is, how can a just, holy, righteous God accept unrighteous, sinful, unjust people?How can we be saved from the looming just punishment that's coming? Is there a way to get mercy? Mercy is when you say, "God, have mercy on me. Please forgive me of my sins." Not guilty. There's no punishment. All of your sins are forgiven. You're free to go home. You're free to live your life. Is that just why Jesus Christ died? To forgive us our sins and give us mercy? No, it's not just why he died. If you pause there, you only have half the gospel, and half the gospel is no gospel. Jesus Christ didn't just die to give you mercy. Jesus also died to give you grace. Well, what's the difference between mercy and grace?Mercy is when you are not given the punishment you deserve. Grace is when you are given something on top. Grace is when you get what you don't deserve. You're declared just. You're justified by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Just as if I'd not sinned. Justification by grace through faith. That's what we're talking about. We're talking about grace, and every single one of us needs grace. God's unmerited favor. Roman's 3:21-31. Would you look at the text with me, either in your Bible or in your app or on the screen? By the way, we're in the Sermon Series through Romans. And if this is your first time, it's been one of the most powerful sermon series ever at this church. You can get it in the app. You can get all the sermons online, on the website. Today, we're in Romans 3:21-31."But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it - the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and false short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.""Then what becomes of our boasting? It's excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith. For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law. Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, since God has one - who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law."This is the reading of God's holy and infallible authoritative word. May you write these eternal truths upon our lives. St. Paul begins this stream of thought in verse 20. "For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin." We talked about this last week that God gave the 10 commandments. It's a moral law. It's written on every single one of our hearts. We know that it's true. And every single one of us, we've broken the commandments. Therefore, we are guilty. We can't be justified through obedience because no one's been obedient except for Jesus Christ. So, the question before us is, how are sinners justified? Martin Luther, the great reformer in the 16th century, he coined this phrase. By the way, he said that this text, this is the greatest text explaining the gospel, because if you don't understand this text, you most likely do not understand the gospel. He coined the phrase called "Simul justus et peccator," in Latin.'Simul,' we get the word 'simultaneously' from it. 'Justus,' 'just,' 'simultaneously just.' 'Et,' E-T, 'and.' 'Peccator' means sinner. We get the word 'impeccable.' That's someone without sin. That's why I don't like the word 'impeccable,' because only Jesus is impeccable. Not your car. And we're sinners. But, we can be simultaneously just. How? That's the question before us. Thanks to Jesus Christ, life, death, and resurrection, we can be judiciously declared just by God while still sinners. This is the very heart of the gospel. That you are a wicked sinner, that's the bad news. You're so much worse than you ever even thought. Just ask your mom. You're terrible. We are all sinners, just terrible, but we don't have to clean ourselves up before we come to God.You don't have to clean up your sin before you come to God. You don't have to be righteous in order to be accepted by God. You need to come to God the way you are. Just the way you are. Come just as you are to Jesus Christ and say, "Jesus, you promised I can be justified even as a sinner. You promised. I name and claim your word. I believe your word. I can be just, I can be declared just because of Jesus Christ."Romans 3:21. "But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it." Righteousness of God, apart from the law? Paul, what are you talking about? You just made the case that the law, the law, the law, it's still enforced. We need to obey the law. And then, you're telling us that we can't do it. We can't make ourselves righteous. We need a righteousness apart from the law. Whose righteousness is that? It's the righteousness of God. It's the righteousness of Jesus Christ.Jesus Christ is the only person who lived a life good enough to get into heaven. No one else comes even close. Not even Mother Teresa. Nobody comes close. No one can get into heaven on their own merit, on their own work. This isn't a Christian idea, as the verse tells us. It wasn't something made up by Jesus Christ. It wasn't something made up by the Apostle Paul or any of the other apostles. He said that it was in the Law and the Prophets, the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it. He's talking about the Hebrew scriptures. He's talking about the Jewish sacred scriptures, that the doctrine of justification by grace through faith from the reformation. He's saying it was in the Hebrew Bible the whole time. It was in the Torah the whole time. He's like, "Yeah."When God comes to Abraham, a pagan, and says, "You're mine. I choose to pour my life and my love out on you. You are mine." And Abraham believed. That's all it took. And this is Genesis 15:6. "And he believed the Lord, and he, the Lord, counted it to him as righteousness." Was Abraham righteous the rest of his life? No, he made mistake after mistake, but this is the beauty of why you can bounce back when you sinned. You can repent and immediately receive grace from God and you can keep going. The righteous person falls down seven times and keeps getting up because of this.By the way, you can't have any relationship unless you understand grace. You can't understand any relationship, in particular, marriage. I've been thinking of marriage a lot recently, because it's springtime in Boston, the best time of the year, and there's a lot of weddings happening at Mosaic. Praise God, praise God. And by the way, if you're single, today's a tremendous time to meet a godly person. To all the single people, there's going to be a mixer in the foyer or on the steps afterwards. Just be bold. The righteous are as courageous as lions. Ask someone out for a coffee at Tatte. Go to brunch.I've been rethinking how I am doing marital counseling and how I'm going to weddings upcoming. I don't want to say, "Are you going to love each other?" I don't want to say that because to love each other means that you are going to bear with this person's sin until death do you part. That's what we should be saying. "Do you, groom, take the bride with all of her baggage and carry-ons and you're going to carry them the rest of your life?" "Are you going to take his sin too?" And when you sin against each other, you give each other grace and you repent, but you start by repenting to the Lord. The law was given as a standard by which we will be held accountable. It was given to drive us to God and say, "God, have mercy on me, a sinner."And this is why the blood sacrifices are so important in the Old Testament, because it was a reminder to every single person every single time it was done that we cannot be made righteous by our works because our works have never enough. So, how do I get the righteousness of God? How can I be declared righteous? That's verse 22. "The righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe." All you need is faith in Christ. But, here I've got to pause, because we have to define what faith is. Let's talk about faith in Jesus Christ for a bit. Saving faith. Who is Jesus Christ? He's the second person of the Trinity, he's fully God, he's fully man. And Jesus Christ is the word, the word of God incarnate.John 1:1-5. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." Jesus Christ is the word. He is the light, and he shines this light into darkness, but we hate the light because the light exposes our sin. It's impossible to sin with the lights on, the light of God. The light, when you're in darkness and you're sinning, the lights come on and it's unpleasant. It's blinding. It's disorienting. You're shocked. People in Boston live in darkness, people in the whole world live in darkness. We're like hormone-disoriented middle schoolers.I'm thinking seventh and eighth grade at a school dance in the gym. Lights are off. You're having a good time. Just learned to dance. There're girls. And then, the gym teacher turns the lights on at 8:00 PM, tells everyone to go home. Oh no, you're crestfallen. The light comes into darkness. Unbelief is the darkness. It's the core division in our country, in our society, in our workplaces, in our homes. Faith was and is the core of Western civilization. It shaped the modern world, and you can see that faith in unbelief division. You can see it playing out in every single major debate and argument that we see in the world. Popular society has done everything it possibly can to banish Jesus, just getting rid of Jesus Christ from everything. Every single public space, you're trying to squeeze Jesus out completely. And how's that going for us? How's the reconstruction of a better morality working for us? It's not.We're living in darkness, and in darkness, you don't know what's true. We search for truth. Can we find truth without Jesus Christ? No, of course not. We deny the truth, and it's led to a whole manner of wickedness and perversion in our world. Moral corruption, and blindness, and lawlessness. Calling evil good and good evil. This is the darkness, and in the darkness, you can't tell which way is up or out. Disbelief is the darkness, and it leads to destruction and confusion, because all we have gone astray like sheep. We search for truth, is that search genuine? Because, when we find the truth, it's inconvenient, because now we have to orient our lives around the truth if we're going to be honest.Pontius Pilate searched for truth, genuinely or rhetorically, when he asked what is truth before letting the mob decide the answer to that question. John 18:37-40. "Then Pilate said to him, 'So you are king?' Jesus answered, 'You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world - to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.' Pilate said to him, 'What is truth?' After he said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, 'I find no guilt in him. But you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?' They cried out again, 'Not this man, but Barabbas!' Now Barabbas was a robber."Pilate says, "What is truth?" And then, he says, "I see nothing wrong with this man. That's my truth," and then the mob comes at him and he cowers like a coward to the mob. He doesn't even stand... You want to know the truth? You don't even stand for your own truth. Because when the mob comes after you, it takes courage to stand in the truth. By the way, this is why some of you, perhaps, are not as open about your faith as you should be. You're afraid of what people might think. You're afraid of the loss. You're afraid of not being liked. Jesus Christ said, "I'm the way and the truth and the life." His life and words speak the truth he's meaning itself. Picture Jesus has a bridge between the physical world and the immaterial meaning of the world. We live in the material world, but it's not all there is. We know that. We know that there are things that transcend the material. We all know that, but Jesus Christ is the only one that can speak meaning into this world, makes sense of things.Yesterday was my sister's birthday, and her second favorite place in the world... Her first favorite place in the world is Mosaic, because this is a house of prayer for all nations. Her second favorite in the world is Gillette stadium. So, yesterday we went to Gillette stadium. I took three of my daughters and we drove to Gillette stadium and we had some Five Guys. It was delicious, grabbed some ice cream. And then, we went to the Hall of Fame, the Patriots Hall of Fame. I saw this painting of Bill Belichick, and it moved me. That's the only way I can explain it. It moved me. It stirred my heart. I'm standing... Bill... It's just ugly. It's so ugly, like he's just pissed at you. He's like cussing you out without even saying anything with just his face. He's got the hoodie and he's just... And I'm staring at it and it's just moving me. I'm like...It's just a canvas with some paint. That's all it is. It looks nice, but why does art move us? Why does beauty move us? Because, it transcends the material. Truth transcends the material. Goodness transcends the material. And you take Jesus out, you banish him from society, well, that's why we can't make sense of any- that's why we have no idea what's true anymore. I stopped watching the news. I got no news. I'm off of social media. I go on Instagram because my sisters post my nieces and nephews. That's nice. I don't want to know anymore news. It's all terrible all the time, so I look to the word of God, which is truth. Michael Gazzaniga in The Consciousness Instinct, he's one of the leading experts in the human mind, and he says the metaphor is built into human consciousness. Human consciousness has an instinct for creating symbols to represent experiences to ourselves.In school, we were taught that simile is a comparison using 'like' or 'as.' Metaphor, which is so important to the human consciousness, doesn't use 'like' or 'as.' It uses 'is.' Jesus is the truth. He is the symbol of truth in a fallen world. But more than just a symbol, he is truth. Everything Jesus did was wholly true. He really historically lived. He really historically died, and he really historically physically came back from the dead. That's true. Now, because that's true, we can draw meaning from it. And the meaning is this, this is how wicked we are. The one time God decided to come into the universe to break through, break in, the immaterial becomes material, divine becomes human, the only time he did that, we killed him.And it wasn't just because back then they were more sinful than we are now. Yes, they were sinful. The Roman leaders killed him because they were Roman leaders and there was too much to lose if they were to allow him to speak the truth. The religious leaders killed him because they were religious leaders, because they were going to lose too much if he were true. The people killed him because he proclaimed the truth about their sin. If Jesus Christ came back today to the world, we would do the same exact thing. We would kill him. Sinful people would figure out a way to kill him, and probably make it look like a suicide. Why? Because, he exposes sin. He exposes the truth. He knows every single one of our dark secrets. He can speak it out loud. That's a dangerous, dangerous person. That's why they killed him. It still is the same way. It would happen all the same this very day.Do you believe in Jesus Christ? That's what we're talking about. Saving faith, and I don't mean, do you believe that Jesus Christ really lived as a human being? I don't mean, do you believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God? And I don't mean, do you believe that everything Jesus taught is true? What I do mean is, have you submitted every single aspect of your life to Jesus Christ, who is king? Is Jesus Christ on the throne of your heart and your life, not just on the throne in heaven? I'm not saying you do it perfectly, but I am saying that you strive to do it perfectly. A true Christian strives to be perfect as your Heavenly father is perfect, as Jesus has told us in the Sermon on the Mount.A lot of modern American Christians have been inoculated from true saving faith with a vaccine of cheap grace. "Oh, you're a sinner? Come, here's your first shot of forgiveness. Now go, live anyway you want, and come back for boosters." No. True faith in Christ is knowing him and doing the hard work of reorienting every single aspect of your life around the truth of Jesus Christ and his word. Some of you have been baptized, maybe members of churches, but one day you'll stand before Christ and hear Matthew 7:21. "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,'" words of Christ, "will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?' And then I would declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.'"Saving faith is when you realize that you have not kept the law, the 10 commandments, you've broken them, and then you turn to Christ and say, "Christ, I need to be forgiven and also I need your righteousness," and by grace through faith, he gives it to you. And then, you do everything you possibly can to do the will of God and follow the way of God as you read in the word of God. So, back to Gillette stadium. My daughter, Milana, she's four. She didn't take a nap yesterday because she was so excited to go to Gillette stadium. And as soon as I got there, I saw my sister. I was like, "We're going to have a meltdown at 5:00 PM." And it was 5:47, she's got a meltdown. We're walking back to the vehicle. She got a meltdown because her sister, Ekaterina, who's seven, went to spend the night at her cousin's house, and Milana started weeping. And I told her, "Baby, you just broken the commandment. Number 10. Thou shalt not covet your sister's sleepover. You wicked little sinner. You are to repent."Instead of repenting, she took a nap. Didn't get to the repentance. We've broken the law, Jesus has fulfilled the law, paid the penalty for our breaking the law. We believe in him, his righteousness gets counted to us, judicially, legally, and then we are to set out to live a life of obedience. That's true saving faith. That's Romans 1:5, that he wrote everything he wrote, Paul wrote everything he wrote for the obedience of faith.Matthew 7:24-27. "Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it."Andrew Klavan in The Truth and Beauty writes the following. "If you do not believe that life is more than life, it would be sadness to do anything but seize the day and live from pleasure to treasure. Better to kowtow tell to the money man and make your pile. Better to kill an inconvenient unborn child and live unfettered. Better to silence your opponents and seize their fortune than to live in mutual freedom. Better to ditch your promises to your spouse and have a sweet new affair. Better to trade your integrity for success and its trappings. Better to keep your head down and your mouth shut in times of danger. To choose instead the tragedy of love is to proclaim with your whole life that this kingdom of heaven within you is a kingdom that never ends. When your cross looms in front of you, it won't be enough to act as if there were a God. You will have to believe, or you will crater."That's saving faith. Saving faith is when we place our trust in Jesus Christ, his righteousness, and not our own, because we don't have enough, we'll never have enough to meet the holy demands of God. And when you trust in Jesus Christ, God judicially transfers the righteousness of Jesus to you. Our sins transferred to Christ, his righteousness is transferred to us. He takes off our sinful rags and he clothe us in his robe of righteousness.A few years ago, I went to buy a shirt at T.J.Maxx, a preaching shirt. It was white. I never do the fitting room, it's a waste the time. And I walk by faith, not by sight. So, I bought the shirt and I go home. I put it on and my wife's like, "What's that written on the back?" And I didn't even see. And it was like embroidered, gangster calligraphy. I don't know. And it said "King of Kings." I had to go preach and I was like, "Well, I don't have a shirt so let's do some theology." It's kind of arrogant to wear a shirt like this. I can pretend it doesn't say anything on the back, but people are observant. And then, I realized that this is what happens in the double exchange. He who knew no sin, Jesus, becomes our sin, our dirty rags are transferred to him. And then, his righteousness, we become his righteousness, so he clothe us in his robe of righteousness.Let's change the way you live. If you know that you are saved, that you are a Christian, that you are robed in the righteousness of Jesus, it changes the way you live. You walk around with a righteousness that is not your own and you want to do everything you possibly can to not dishonor it with sin. Romans 3:22-24. "For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus."We have all sinned. We've all missed, this is what sin means. It means you missed the mark. Hamartia. You missed the mark. The problem... What's the mark? The mark is the glory of God. God created us in his image so that we image forth his glory. We are created to live for God's glory, God's honor, God's reputation, not our own. And you know that you are a child of God, a follower of Jesus Christ, when God's glory is more important to you than your own, or God's reputation, God's honor is more important to you than your own. Here I've got to pause and ask the following. Dear Christian, are you paralyzed by the idol of being liked? That's why you're so nice to people and you're only nice to people. It's good to be nice to people, but once in a while, you have to speak truth in love because you love them, but you have to speak truth and that truth might come as a rude awakening like this."Dear friend, I love you so much. I want the best for you. I want you to meet God. And what's in the way? Your sin, your selfishness, your self absorption, your virtue signaling, your sin. You've broken the law. Oh, you don't believe me? Let's look through the 10 commandments. Oh, you don't even know them? Then, you definitely broken them. But Jesus Christ, God incarnate, came, lived, paid the price for your sin, died, rose from the dead. And all you have to do is place your faith and trust in him and then commit the rest of your life to him. And that is the only hope for you to be saved from the wrath of God for all of eternity, from hell, for all of eternity. So, receive the gift."That's not impolite. That's not rude, because you want the best thing for the person. Grace is a gift. What's the best gift you've ever received? If you're married, you better say it's your spouse. You have to, you have to, you have to. My wife and I have been married, coming up on sweet 16, praise God. We love going Ukraine, but we can't go there. Might go to Colorado. Grace is a gift. It's the greatest gift God gives, because if you receive grace, you get God. This one is infinity times better than any other gift. Verse 24. "And are justified by the grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins."Propitiation, do you know that word? Well, we learn stuff at church here at Mosaic because we love the word of God so we learned stuff. And if you can figure out how to order coffee at Starbucks, you can learn theology. Propitiation means to satisfy the demands of justice. In the biblical terms, is to satisfy the demands of God's wrath, the penalty for law breaking is God's wrath. When holy scripture talks about being saved, we're not saved from just Satan. We're saved by God from God. We're saved by God, Jesus Christ, from the Father's wrath on us. We're saved by God from God for God. And Christ is the substitute who took upon himself the wrath that we deserve by his blood to be received by faith. And God will only pass over your sins of Jesus has paved for them.Jesus Christ didn't die in the cross for everyone's sins. Did you know that? Not everyone's sins. Not everyone sins. Jesus Christ died for the sins of the elect, whom he had chose. I don't know who the elect are, so whenever anyone listens to my sermons, I just assume everyone's elect. You should just assume you're elect and repent your sins and follow Jesus. But if you reject Jesus Christ, know your sins are not paid for. You will pay for your own sins for all eternity. So, repent, receive the gift of justification by grace through faith. Romans 3:26. "It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus."The gospel isn't just pardon of sin because God can't just forgive sin. If God could just forgive sin, Jesus Christ wouldn't have to die in the cross. God is just and he does not forget his holiness when he forgives us. He's not just some congenial old guy in the clouds, lonely and wants us to spend eternity with him. No. God is holy and he never negotiates his holiness. He demands and requires that sin be punished. So, how can a just God forgive us? Well, the justice of God and his love and mercy, they mean for God's wrath is poured out on his son. His son is on that cross because he loves us and gave himself for us, and he absorbs the wrath of God. So, God remains just and the justifier. Repent, receive the gift of justification by grace through faith, and then what? Well then, humbly follow Jesus Christ daily.Romans 3:27. "Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith." There is not one thing that you have added to your salvation if you're saved other than your sin. That's the only thing. You did nothing to be justified by God. You did nothing. That why it's called grace. It's a gift. You did nothing. You can't do a thing. What do we have to be proud of? Nothing. That's why Christians and followers of God should be the most humble of people. "I am nothing. I am wicked sinner. I'm saved by grace through faith." But, we're also the most confident. We should be. Because, your identity is secure in Jesus Christ. You are a child of God by grace through faith, and the righteous shall be as bold as lions. So, stay humble. Do God's will.Verse 28. "For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law. Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, since God is one - who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law." He talked about the Jewish people in the text on last Sunday, and now here he says, look, God is one. There's not a God of the Jews and a God of the Muslims and a God of the Buddhist and the God of the Christians and the Catholics and the Orthodox. There's only one God. And if you do not have the Son, you do not have the Father. And if you do not have the Son or the Father, you do not have the spirit of God, because God is one. That's what he say.What does he do with the law? Do we get rid of the law? Do we overthrow it? No, by no means. On the contrary, we uphold the law. Faith doesn't overthrow the law. We don't get rid of the 10 commandments. Faith actually reestablishes the law. Do you know the 10 commandments are still enforced on every single one of us? That's why Jesus Christ, when he summarized what the law is and he pointed the 10 commandments and he said, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength and mind. Love your neighbor as yourself." That's how you summarized the 10 commandments, but the 10 commandments are still enforced. Read the oracles of God, that's what the Bible calls the Bible. Study, understand, believe, and obey.Matthew 5:17-20. "Do not think that I've come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not in iota, not a dot, will pass away from the Law until all is accomplished. Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."Do you want to be great in the kingdom of heaven? Follow the Lord. And again, community with other followers of Jesus Christ. We need each other. We need each other to fight the good fight of faith, together to fight sin. And I'm not just talking about Christian friends. A lot of people come to Mosaic saying, "I have no friends. Give me friends." And I'm like, "That's why no one wants to be friends with you. You're desperate. I can smell it." We need brothers and sisters. We need spiritual family that will help us grow as followers of Christ. So, join the church as a coveted member, commit, and allow yourself to be held accountable, officially accountable, and share the gospel. The tremendous news that we can be justified by grace through faith in Christ, and share the gospel with your family, friends, neighbors.If you are not concerned about their eternal souls and their faith, are you even saved? And we have a responsibility to proclaim the truth in a world that hates it and insists that we all have our own truth. Jesus Christ didn't just come to save you from the wrath of God. He also came to give you life, true life, and the fullness of life. Imagine living life without guilt, without shame. Imagine living life with a clean conscience. I slept the soundest I've ever slept in my whole life last night, which is a miracle because before Easter I always get nervous and I'm like, "I'm out of emotions, no more." And then, I woke up today, it was like the most tremendous sleep in my life. And then, a verse came to mind and it says, "God gives sleep to whom he loves." I was like, "Thank you, Lord. You love me. Praise God. Can we do it again tomorrow?"Imagine living a life where the spirit of God courses through you. Imagine living a life of eternal meaning, purpose, significance. Is this life easy? No, it's not. I'm actually 25. This life is not easy. This is the hardest thing you will ever do, but you get God, and God is with you. And the spirit of God is with you. And that's all that matters. Jesus lived, Jesus died, Jesus came back from the dead to show us the way, to tell us the truth, and to give us life. And also, don't forget, love. Everything he did, he did because he was motivated by love for God and love for people. The last supper, right before he gets on his knees and washes the dirty feet of his disciples, it said having loved his own who were in the world. He loved them to the end. That's true love.The love of this world does not love to the end because the love of this world is in love. It chews you up and spits you out when it's done with you. The love of this world is transactional. You're used for what you're good for. And when the time comes, you're done, you're canceled. There's no grace. There's no forgiveness. There's just perpetual confession and reparation. That's our culture. There's no grace, because there's no Christ. His story was a life that was beset on all sides by pain and suffering. He's a man of sorrows, emotional, mental, spiritual suffering. He was tired, hungry, misunderstood, mistreated, even by his friends and family. Betrayed, denied by those closest to him. But, he was obedient to the will of the Father.And because he was obedient to the will of the Father, that's why he died. It wasn't just the physical pain that killed Jesus Christ. Jesus died because the Father withdrew his love. "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Instead of love, all he got in the cross was wrath and hatred. Our Lord, though he died on the cross, did not die of the cross. He died of a broken heart, suffering for you. I'll never forget a sermon by Pastor Andy Davis who texted me right after I said this in my first sermon. He texted me. He's like, "Huh? Spirit of God, baby." Pastor Andy Davis, one of my mentor. I remember a sermon on Colossians where it says, the text is, "In Christ, all things hold together," and he said, "On the cross, Jesus Christ was keeping the nails together." The nails that were nailed through his hands and his feet, he was keeping them together. And he was keeping the cross together. He was keeping Golgotha together, he was keeping it all together, because he's God and God is love. So, Christ is love.Love is what keeps everything together, and love is the heart of the gospel. It's the greatest story ever told. It's the most tremendous news. That's what the gospel is. When you placed your trust in this man, Jesus Christ, who is God, God who chose to come down into the filth, into the dirt, into just the heartbreak of life, the human existence, and he died a criminal's death on a cross, the very moment you trust in him, your sins are all forgiven. You're loved. You're welcomed into the family of God. You're no longer spiritual orphan. You're adopted, and you are free and you will be transformed to bring that story of love into the lives of every person you'll ever encounter in this world, through your life, through your words, through your deeds, sharing Jesus' life and story.This is meaning, this is fulfillment. This is Jesus. That's truth. That's beauty. That's life. So yes, your end is near, but thanks be to God, your eternity is secure. When you die, you are just in heaven for all of eternity by the grace of God, because he will love you to the end and you can't even squirm out of his grasp. He's already proven his love for you, by living, by dying, and by rising from the dead. He is risen. He is risen. He is risen. Now live like it. And love like it. Let's pray.Lord Jesus, we thank you that you are the Great Conqueror. Our Lord, our Savior, our King, our Substitute, our Propitiation, our Shepherd, the word of God, the light of God. You are the truth. Lord, we repent that often we've rejected the truth. It's too inconvenient. We've rejected the light because we like our sins. We repent of all this Lord and we pray. Cleanse our mind and our heart. Purify our souls. Fill us with the Holy Spirit, and make us a people fervent for you, living for your glory, sharing your gospel, building your kingdom. And we pray all this in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

It's been a while since I've done a speed dating bonus episode, and this one is all about Russian novels for the Reading Envy Russia novel quarter. I discuss books I tried, what I think of them, and books I read previously. We might be moving on to non-fiction officially, but that doesn't mean we have to leave Russian literature behind forever. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 243: Russian Novel Speed Date Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed:An Evening with Claire by Gaito Gazdanov, translated by Bryan KaretnykThe Sentence by Louise ErdrichFirst Love by Ivan Turgenev, translated by Richard FreebornEugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Leo TolstoyOblomov by Ivan Goncherov, translated by Stephen PearlLolita by Vladimir NabokovZuleikha by Guzel Yakhina, translated by Lisa C. HaydenThe Time of Women by Elena Chizhova, translated by Simon Patterson and Nina ChordasUntraceable by Sergei Lebedev, translated by Antonina W. BouisOblivion by Sergei Lebedev, translated by Antonina W. BouisBrisbane by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated by Marian SchwartzLaurus by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated by Lisa C. HaydenAnna K.: A Love Story by Jenny LeeAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Constance GarrettThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by David McDuffThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyA Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony MarraThe Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony MarraCity of Thieves by David BenioffA Gentleman in Moscow by Amor TowlesThe Bookworm by Mitch SilverA Terrible Country by Keith GessenFardwor, Russia! by Oleg Kashin, translated by Will EvansRelated episodes:  Episode 228 - Full of Secrets with Audrey Episode 135 - Speed Dating 2018, Round 5Episode 113 - Speed Dating 2018, round 1Episode 117 - Speed Dating 2018, round 2Episode 120 - Summer Reading; Speed Dating 2018, round 3   Episode 128 - Poetry and Whale Guts (Bonus episode; Speed Dating 2018, round 4)Episode 063 - Desolation Road (book speed dating and books on grief)Episode 059 - Are you Inspired Yet? bonus book speed datingEpisode 047 - Sex with Elvis: Bonus Book Speed Dating EpisodeEpisode 035 - Speed Dating Books   Stalk us online:Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

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Watch youtubeSupport MeFathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev introduced one of the greatest and most famous Russian characters of all time. Bazarov personified the philosophy of Russian nihilism that started in 19th century and culminated in the 20th century with the Bolshevik revolution in 1917. Fathers and Sons influence on Dostoevsky is apparent, specially in the Brothers Karamazov, Notes from Underground and Crime and Punishment, all three I have reviewed here. Also, note that Fathers and Sons was published in 1862, 4 years before Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and 7 years before Tolstoy's War and Peace, so it is a pioneer of Russian literature. In this video, I will summarise the story, discuss Russian nihilism, why Bazarov is called the greatest nihilist, and how Turgenev masterfully builds, develops, and transforms his characters so devastatingly skilfully like a true artist that breaks your heart. I have broken down the novel into five major conflicts depicted by Turgenev, a master of show, don't tell. But first let me give you a quick overview of Russia at the time.

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Joie and I talk about Smoke, by Ivan Turgenev and about her book, An Unofficial Marriage.Buy Smoke:https://www.amazon.com/Smoke-Alma-Classics-Ivan-Turgenev/dp/1847493165/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3QD34D4CD6BW6&dchild=1&keywords=smoke%2C+ivan+turgenev&qid=1634162167&sr=8-1Buy The Unofficial Marriage:https://www.amazon.com/Unofficial-Marriage-Novel-Joie-Davidow/dp/1950691780/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=the+unofficial+marriage&qid=1634162261&sr=8-2

Today we welcome 'Isle and Empires: Romanov Russia, Britain and the Isle of Wight' author Stephan Roman to the History with Jackson Podcast. Today in the podcast we explore the relationship between the two royal families and nation whilst also dropping in and looking at the history of the Isle of Wight. To read Stephan's book 'Isle and Empires' head to: https://medinapublishing.com/books/isle-and-empires-romanov-russia-britain-and-the-isle-of-wight/ To keep up to date with Stephan Roman on Goodreads head to: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/177383.Stephan_Roman Head to @IsleandEmpires on Facebook and Instagram to keep up to date with Stephan and his book To read Simon Sebag-Montefiore's 'The Romanovs' head to: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Romanovs-1613-1918-Simon-Sebag-Montefiore/dp/1474600875/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1627839785&sr=8-1 To Douglas Smith's 'Former People' head to: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Former-People-Destruction-Russian-Aristocracy/dp/0330520296/ref=sr_1_2crid=OB9G6KRDD86Q&dchild=1&keywords=douglas+smith+former+people&qid=1627839840&sprefix=Former+people+Douglas+%2Caps%2C178&sr=8-2 To read Helen Rappaport's 'The Race to Save the Romanovs' head to https://www.amazon.co.uk/Race-Save-Romanovs-Russias-Imperial-ebook/dp/B07613V8BJ/ref=sr_1_1crid=3NP6BSTNTSRN1&dchild=1&keywords=the+race+to+save+the+romanovs&qid=1627839941&sprefix=The+Race+to+save+the+r%2Caps%2C181&sr=8-1 To Read Orlando Figes' 'A People's Tragedy' head to: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Peoples-Tragedy-Revolution-centenary-introduction/dp/1847924514/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1627840022&sr=8-1 To read Ivan Turgenev's 'Fathers and Sons' head to: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fathers-Sons-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486400735/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1627840107&sr=8-1 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/history-with-jackson/message

Listen on Patreon and find links to this week's and next week's readings. This week we move on to a gem of a short story by Ivan Turgenev. We  enjoy a vicarious summer in the German countryside and follow in the first footsteps of the narrator's lover for the enigmatic Asya. A thanks to Lewis Wright, our reader for this week! And check out Street Orchestra Live here. This episode is part of our 19th century Russian literature cycle.

Perry and David nominate their best reads in the year so far and then go on to discuss their recent reading, ranging from children's books to a strange novel by a Japanese author Locus Awards (03:25) Arthur C. Clarke Award (01:37) Other Awards (01:03) David's top 5 books of the year so far (02:51) Clarissa Harlowe by Samuel Richardson (00:56) The Women in Black by Madeleine St John (00:10) The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (00:13) Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (00:08) Lavengro / Romany Rye by George Borrow (00:25) Perry's top 5 books of the year so far (04:11) Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula K. Le Guin (01:24) Dune by Frank Herbert (00:54) The Yield by Tara Jane Winch (00:11) First Love by Ivan Turgenev (00:51) The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa (00:17) Emails and Tweets of Comment (01:57) Why You Should Read Children's Books by Katherine Rundell (04:32) The Scarecrow and His Servant by Philip Pullman (06:08) The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa (07:15) Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell (07:08) The Labyrinth by Amanda Lowrey (06:26) Lavengro, Romany Rye by George Borrow (06:08) Interlibrary Loan by Gene Wolfe (05:46) Windup (01:11) Illustration: rooftops of Paris.

“A nihilist—that's from the Latin "nihil", nothing, so far as I can judge. Therefore, the word denotes a man who doesn't recognize anything?” Sadly, it does. The word's etymology, should you be so fearless as to trace it to its root, shan't lead you astray. It will, however, lead you to dark, morbid, and unnatural places, to a chthonic world out of which you'll not easily climb. It'll lead you to a realm emptied of meaning, and an existence stripped of life. The materialist, utilitarian, unpoetic, brooding Bazarov will welcome you to this ghastly terrain. When you return, as I hope you do, I'll offer you my warmest Father's Day wishes.

Ralston College presents a lecture by Dr Anthony Daniels (aka Theodore Dalrymple) on Ivan Turgenev's 1862 “Fathers and Sons”, followed by a conversation about the novel with Dr Stephen Blackwood. Daniels illuminates the depth of Turgenev's insight into the revolutionary mindset, and its relevance to the nihilism of our own time and culture. This event was held live on January 14th, 2021 and includes questions from participants around the world.The music mentioned is Schubert's “Litanei auf das Fest Allerseelen, D.343” played by Deborah Pae (cello) and Misha Namirovsky (piano), available at https://bit.ly/3a8UoO6.

It's the battle of the generations with Ivan Turgenev's work Fathers and Sons!