Books bringing us back home - what are you reading these winter days?
In this episode, Dolli and I discuss one of our favourite topics, books. What books we love, what books inspire us, fascinate us, irritate us, it's all here in this fun episode where we touch upon authors from Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to popular Swedish authors to the works of famous German writers in the 20th century. We also read passages from works of literature we love. The Christmas season is here, and what better way to get through the dark night and short days than with literary company. So the question is, what are you reading these winter days?
Зимний пейзаж (Winter Landscape), c. 1890, Alexei Savrasov
Time Topic
1:40 Bookmesse - Leipzig, Frankfurt
2:50 Gothic Wave Festival Leipzig
3:20 Stephen King, American bestselling author of horror; Edgar Allen Poe, 19th century author, poet
3:30 T.S. Eliot, 20th Century American poet, famous for ‘The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock’ and ‘The Wasteland’
3:50 Charles Baudelaire, 19th century French poet, critic and translator of Edgar Allen Poe
4:10 ‘The Purloined Letter’, Edgar Allen Poe story, one of the first detective tales
4:30 Sherlock Holmes, famous detective created by 19th century English author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4:50 Wilkie Collins, 19th Century English writer of sensationalist novels, The Woman in White and The Moonstone; friend of Charles Dickens
5:30 Lady Audley’s Secret, famous 19th Century sensationalist novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
5:45 The Thirteenth Tale by British author, Diane Sutterfield
6:05 The Rock and the Bird by Chew Chia Shao Wei
7:05 Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
7:20 The Alchemist by Brazilian author, Paolo Coelho
7:30 The Prophet by Kahil Gibran
8:05 Nelson Mandela’s Favourite African Folk Tales
10:50 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
11:10 Jorge Luis Borges, 20th Century Argentinian author, poet and critic
11:15 Love in the Time of Cholera by 20th Century Colombian writer, Gabriel García Márquez
11:50 Isabel Allende, famous 20th and 21st Century Chilean writer, author of The House of the Spirits
12:15 Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
15:10 The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
18:30 Siegfried Lenz, 20th Century German author. His books include The Turncoat and The German Lesson
20:10 Joseph Roth, 20th Century Austrian author, journalist, famous for The Radetsky March and Job
22:00 Irving D. Yalom, author of When Nietzsche Wept, The Schopenhauer Cure, and The Spinoza Problem
25:10 Arthur Schopenhauer, 19th Century German philosopher, author of the monumental and influential, The World as Will and Representation. Schopenhauer was also a great influence on the works of composer Richard Wagner, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and authors as diverse as Thomas Hardy, Thomas Mann and Joseph Conrad.
25:45 The Bible, The Book of Job, Book of Daniel
26:15 The Song of Songs
29:10 Ecclesiastes
30:10 Leo Tolstoy, 19th Century Russian novelist famous for War and Peace and Anna Karenina
31:20 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, influential 18th and 19th Century German author, poet, statesman, scientist and thinker. He is most famous for his poetic retelling of the Faust legend.
31:00 Rainer Maria Rilke, 20th Century German poet
34:00 Im Westen Nichts Neues, or in English, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
35:10 Ernst Jünger wrote about war in his book, Storm of Steel, the German: Im Stahlgewittern
35:50 Afrikanische Spiele - Ernst Jünger
36:30 A Rumor of War by American author, Philip Caputo
37:30 Diego Maradona, beloved Argentine footballer who played in Europe for Barcelona, Naples and Seville.
38:40 Fever Pitch and High Fidelity by Nick Hornby, the male counterpart to Helen Fielding and her famous Bridge Jones’ Diary
39:40 One cannot mention Colin Firth in Fever Pitch without thinking of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and the beloved BBC series
40:00 Taboo, game
40:30 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, both the book by Stieg Larsson and the American film version, directed by David Fincher are masterpieces in their respected worlds
41:10 David Fincher also directed Fight Club, based on the book by American writer, Chuck Palaniuk
41:40 On the topic of film, The Passion of the Christ as a poignant and painful film
42:15 Thieves on the cross
42:40 The Twelve Caesars by Roman author Suetonius
44:00 Ovid, Roman Golden Age poet exiled by Caesar Augustus in the first century
44:10 Scandinavian literature of today
44:30 A Man Called Ove by Swedish author, Fredrik Backman
45:15 Karin Fossum, popular Norwegian crime novelist, author of numerous books including The Indian Bride
45:30 Raymond Chandler, American author, penned The Big Sleep while Dashiell Hammet wrote The Maltese Falcon
46:20 Marianne Frederiksson, author of Simon’s Family and numerous novels
48:10 Buddenbrooks, family saga by the great 20th Century German author, Thomas Mann
49:10 20th Century French classic multi-volume novel, In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust will keep most readers busy for months
50:10 Elizabeth Gaskell, 19th century Victorian novelist acquainted with Charles Dickens
50:20 Marselio Ficino, 15th century philosopher and Christian theologian