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Writers' Tavern
Great twentieth-century writers and their inner worlds
Completed · 44 episodes
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Xu Zhiyuan: Truly Getting to Know the Great Writers Li Jingze: A Conversation with Writers Adrift in the Same World Leung Man-tao: What Consolation Does Literature Offer? Whatever You Encounter, You Can Find Consolation in Literature Writer 1: F. Scott Fitzgerald—Can True Love Survive beneath the Glamour? | The Great Gatsby Writer 2: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry—Does Mediocrity Deserve Compassion? | The Little Prince Writer 3: Stefan Zweig—How Do We Face Our Regrets? | Decisive Moments in History Writer 4: Cesare Pavese—How Can an Introvert Live with the Self? | The Moon and the Bonfires Writer 5: Elias Canetti—How Can We Escape the Shadows of Childhood? | Confusion Writer 6: Joseph Conrad—Can We Escape a Pessimistic Sense of Fate? | Heart of Darkness Writer 7: Tomas Tranströmer—What Is the Best Way to Resist Loneliness? | 17 Poems Writer 8: Viktor Astafyev—What Is the Truth of Life? | The Tsar Fish Writer 9: François Mauriac—Can the Captivity of Family Affection Be Broken? | The Desert of Love Writer 10: Albert Camus—How Do We Emerge from Desperation? | The Plague Writer 11: Andrei Platonov—If I Were the Last Human Being | The Fierce and Beautiful World Writer 12: Doris Lessing—How Can a Woman Live as Herself? | The Golden Notebook Writer 13: Primo Levi—What Is Courageous Cowardice? | If This Is a Man Writer 14: Patrick White—Can Someone Who Keeps Everyone Away Still Find Love? | Happy Valley Writer 15: Yuri Bondarev—How Do We Face Loss? | Hot Snow Writer 16: Christa Wolf—Should You Stay in or Leave a Disgraced Country? | Divided Heaven Writer 17: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa—How Does the Last Aristocrat Live? | The Leopard Writer 18: Bohumil Hrabal—How Do We Escape Too Loud a Solitude? Writer 19: Philip Roth—How Do We Face the Sordid Side of Human Nature? | The Human Stain Writer 20: Mahmoud Darwish—What Can I Do When My Homeland Is Ravaged? | At Night's End Writer 21: Zbigniew Herbert—What Does Exile Feel Like? | Study of the Object Writer 22: Joseph Roth—How Does One Become a Passing Traveler on Earth? | The Radetzky March Writer 23: D. H. Lawrence—What Lies inside an “Obscene Writer”? | Sons and Lovers Writer 24: Boris Pasternak—Whose Shadow Appears in Doctor Zhivago? Writer 25: Harper Lee—How Do You Face Pursuit after Fame? | To Kill a Mockingbird Writer 26: Bernard Malamud—Can Poverty Forge Success? | Idiots First Writer 27: August Strindberg—What Is High-Latitude Arrogance? | The Red Room Writer 28: Kōbō Abe—What If You Forget Who You Are? | The Ruined Map Writer 29: Hermann Hesse—Can a Person Escape Becoming a Commodity? | Siddhartha Writer 30: Isaac Babel—Is Escape a Form of Cowardice? | Red Cavalry Writer 31: Milan Kundera—Must We Pursue Perfection? | The Joke Writer 32: Virginia Woolf—What Is the Meaning of Illness? | To the Lighthouse Writer 33: Heinrich Böll—May Faith Be Questioned? | The Clown Writer 34: Isaac Bashevis Singer—How Do We Face Temptation? | The Spinoza of Market Street Writer 35: Jean-Paul Sartre—What Is Fame? | The Words Writer 36: Dylan Thomas—Is Drinking a Profound Spiritual Act? | Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Writer 37: Saul Bellow—How Much Can One Person Bear? | More Die of Heartbreak Writer 38: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn—What Is the Smallest Happiness? | The Gulag Archipelago Writer 39: Fernando Pessoa—How Does a Poet Live On? | Message Writer 40: Anne Frank—How Can We Explore Our Potential? | The Diary of Anne Frank