Tatiana and Niko meet together to discuss great literature of the past and present. In each episode they read a book of contemporary world literature and pair it with a canonical western classic to delve into shared literary themes and questions that writers keep returning to across space and time.
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Sound recording and editing by Niko and Tatiana
Opening music by Seth Thomsen
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Tatiana and Niko meet together to discuss great literature of the past and present. In each episode they read a book of contemporary world literature and pair it with a canonical western classic to delve into shared literary themes and questions that writers keep returning to across space and time.
Follow us on Instagram: @desperatereaderspod
and Twitter: @DesperateReads
Sound recording and editing by Niko and Tatiana
Opening music by Seth Thomsen
XLIX. The Most Righteous and Appalling: Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist
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5 months ago
XLIX. The Most Righteous and Appalling: Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist
This week welcomes back to the pod Heinrich von Kleist and perhaps his most famous novella, "Michael Kohlhaas"! Niko and Tatiana discuss justice, certainty, and doubt in a story that even Kafka read with "true piety"
Desperate Readers
Tatiana and Niko meet together to discuss great literature of the past and present. In each episode they read a book of contemporary world literature and pair it with a canonical western classic to delve into shared literary themes and questions that writers keep returning to across space and time.
Follow us on Instagram: @desperatereaderspod
and Twitter: @DesperateReads
Sound recording and editing by Niko and Tatiana
Opening music by Seth Thomsen