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Fiction Beast 70 Episodes Oct 28, 2025

This podcast explores great novels from a philosophical or psychological perspective, aiming to uncover the emotional truths of human existence. Each week, the host selects a classic work of fiction and provides an in-depth summary and analysis. The show is dedicated to bringing listeners the best of literature from around the world.

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The blind owl by Sadegh Hedayat Oct 28, 2025 1287 Support the podcast► Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/fictionbeast► Get perks on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fictionbeastWHERE TO FIND ME:► Website: https://fictionbeast.com►Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fictionbeastofficial/►Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fictionbeast?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc► E-mail: fictionbeastofficial {at} gmail.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://re

Emil Cioran Genius Philosophy Jun 30, 2025 1431 Support the podcast► Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/fictionbeast► Get perks on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fictionbeastWHERE TO FIND ME:► Website: https://fictionbeast.com►Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fictionbeastofficial/►Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fictionbeast?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc► E-mail: fictionbeastofficial {at} gmail.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://re

Walter Benjamin: This genius failed in everything Apr 25, 2025 1340 Support the podcast► Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/fictionbeast► Get perks on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fictionbeastWHERE TO FIND ME:► Website: https://fictionbeast.com►Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fictionbeastofficial/►Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fictionbeast?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc► E-mail: fictionbeastofficial {at} gmail.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://re

Is this the most disturbing novel? No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai Mar 28, 2025 1169 Support the podcast► Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/fictionbeast► Get perks on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fictionbeastWHERE TO FIND ME:► Website: https://fictionbeast.com►Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fictionbeastofficial/►Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fictionbeast?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc► E-mail: fictionbeastofficial {at} gmail.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://re

Who was Yukio Mishima? Feb 27, 2025 1888 Support the podcast► Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/fictionbeast► Get perks on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fictionbeastWHERE TO FIND ME:► Website: https://fictionbeast.com►Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fictionbeastofficial/►Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fictionbeast?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc► E-mail: fictionbeastofficial {at} gmail.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://re

The purpose of humanity Jan 23, 2025 1139 Support the podcast► Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/fictionbeast► Get perks on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fictionbeastWHERE TO FIND ME:► Website: https://fictionbeast.com►Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fictionbeastofficial/►Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fictionbeast?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc► E-mail: fictionbeastofficial {at} gmail.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://re

Kafka vs Camus: Who is more absurd? Oct 2, 2024 845 Support the podcast► Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/fictionbeast► Get perks on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fictionbeastWHERE TO FIND ME:► Website: https://fictionbeast.com►Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fictionbeastofficial/►Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fictionbeast?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc► E-mail: fictionbeastofficial {at} gmail.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://re

What led Dostoevsky to write about lonely men? Jul 26, 2024 1147 If you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Are these the best war novels? May 9, 2024 1171 If you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

How Did the Germans Dominate (and Kill) Philosophy? Mar 8, 2024 1245 If you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Why Dostoesvky Hated Intellectuals Feb 1, 2024 905 If you enjoy my content, you can buy me a coffee Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Was Nikolai Gogol Russian or Ukrainian? Dec 23, 2023 1312 Watch on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Jorge Luis Borges - Mind-blowing Stories Sep 1, 2023 1322 Watch on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Milan Kundera Aug 1, 2023 1585 Watch the Full Podcast on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Clarice Lispector: The Brazilian Kafka Jul 22, 2023 1404 Watch the Full Podcast on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

How to read more productively in 9 steps Jun 20, 2023 549 Watch the Full Podcast on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

6 Philosophical Answers to Modern Existential Crisis of Meaning Apr 26, 2023 1279 Watch the Full Podcast on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Ayn Rand Philosophy: Life is a heroic journey Mar 23, 2023 3264 Watch the Full Podcast on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Hermann Hesse's Genius Philosophy - Life's meaning is found in nature Mar 2, 2023 2518 Watch the Full Podcast on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

carl Jung - psychological reason behind storytelling Jan 16, 2023 3000 Watch the Full Podcast on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Anton Chekhov - the revolutionary storyteller Jan 1, 2023 1954 Watch the Full Podcast on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Soren Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling Summary Dec 23, 2022 484 Watch the Full Podcast on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Soren Kierkegaard - Either/Or Summary Dec 16, 2022 814 Watch the Full Podcast on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Soren Kierkegaard - A brief life Dec 12, 2022 1203 Watch the Full Podcast on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

10 Philosophical Lessons from Jean-Paul Sartre Dec 8, 2022 1136 Watch the Full Podcast on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Jean-Paul Sartre's Philosophy Explained Dec 4, 2022 650 Watch the Full Podcast on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness Summarised Nov 30, 2022 939 Watch the Full Podcast on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea Summarised Nov 27, 2022 900 Watch the Full Podcast on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Who was Jean-Paul Sartre? Nov 23, 2022 948 Watch the Full Podcast on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Schopenhauer's Genius Philosophy Nov 16, 2022 1888 Watch on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Kurdish Love Epic of Mem and Zin by Akhmad Khani Nov 3, 2022 1035 Watch on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Louis-ferdinand Celine - Journey to the End of the Night Oct 28, 2022 2108 Watch on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Egyptian Book of the Dead and Tibetan Book of the Dead Oct 19, 2022 1544 Watch on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Annie Ernaux - 2022 Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature Oct 9, 2022 974 Watch on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray Oct 1, 2022 1165 Watch on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Ryunosuke Akutagawa--Japanese Genius Short Story writer Sep 24, 2022 1824 Watch on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Genius philosophy of Albert Camus Sep 17, 2022 3065 Watch on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Dostoevsky's White Nights Sep 10, 2022 714 Watch on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground Aug 24, 2022 1566 Watch on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

the great gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald Aug 17, 2022 1429 Watch on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov Aug 10, 2022 1295 Watch on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

The moon and sixpence by Somerset Maugham Jul 30, 2022 1217 Watch on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Why short men become writers Jul 20, 2022 697 Watch on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Dostoevsky's The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Jul 13, 2022 823 Watch on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - Summary and Analysis Jun 29, 2022 2068 Watch on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

huckleberry finn by mark twain (summary and analysis) Jun 22, 2022 1223 Watch on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Charles Dickens vs Leo Tolstoy: A Tale of Two Giants Jun 15, 2022 2596 Watch on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

How to read Marcel Proust's Novel In Search of Lost Time (10 tips and 10 Signs afterward) Jun 8, 2022 1249 Watch on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Tao Te Ching by Laozi (the book of Taoism) Jun 1, 2022 3774 Watch on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger May 25, 2022 1729 Watch on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Dostoevsky's Demons (summary and analysis) May 18, 2022 1854 Watch on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Nietzsche vs Dostoevsky: The battle of Good vs Great May 11, 2022 2414 Watch on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Mikhail Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time Summay May 4, 2022 1606 Watch on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls and The Nose Apr 27, 2022 2021 You can Watch on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please feel free to Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Pushkin's Eugene Onegin - Masterpiece of Russian Literature Apr 20, 2022 1654 You can Watch on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please feel free to Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Dostoevsky's The Idiot -Summary and Analysis Apr 13, 2022 1749 You can Watch on YoutubeIf you enjoy my content, please feel free to Support MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time (Full Summary) Apr 6, 2022 2410 Watch on YoutubeSupport MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne Mar 30, 2022 1093 Watch on YoutubeSupport MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Hamlet vs Don Quixote (Shakespeare vs Cervantes) Mar 22, 2022 909 Watch on YoutubeSupport MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Franz Kafka vs Marcel Proust - A Poet of Time vs Space Mar 15, 2022 1267 Watch youtubeSupport MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Don Quixote by Migeul de Cervantes (full summary and analysis) Mar 8, 2022 1929 Watch youtubeSupport MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Gustave Flaubert - A Master of Style (6 Lessons) Mar 1, 2022 1102 Watch youtubeSupport MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Ivan Turgenev - A Giant in the Shadows of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky Feb 22, 2022 1417 Watch youtubeSupport MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche (full summary and analysis) Feb 15, 2022 2287 Watch youtubeSupport MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Leo Tostoy vs Fyodor Dostoevsky (Two Giants compared) Feb 8, 2022 1564 Watch youtubeSupport MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (full Summary and Analysis) Feb 1, 2022 1428 Watch youtubeSupport MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

8 Lessons from Leo Tolstoy (Life philosophy) Jan 25, 2022 875 Watch youtubeSupport MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (full summary and analysis) Jan 18, 2022 1389 Watch youtubeSupport MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (full summary and analysis) Jan 11, 2022 2159 Watch youtubeSupport MeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (Full Summary and Analysis) Jan 5, 2022 1496 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 Unde

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