Which of these two author would you have a beer with?
I don't drink and both are buzzkills.
>Tolstoy sits there and judges you while you drink>Dostoevsky takes one sip and breaks down crying like Jordan Peterson neither
Would've hugged Tolstoy and punched Dostoevsky in the face. And if you want to have a drink with Russian writer, you need to find a poet: Pushkin, Blok, Yesenin, etc.
>>24090500You’re a faggot who has read only one of these writers
>>24090500what if i want to have a drink with your mom
>>24090432I'm the equivalent of a mujik so Tolstoy.
>>24090432Tolstoy. Dostoevsky seems like a doomer who would barely talk and drink himself till he starts crying.
>>24090549I've read both. Ha языкe opигинaлa, пpичeмъ нѣкoтopыe пpoизвeдeнiя Toлcтaгo дaжe въ дopeфopмeннoмъ издaнiи. I absolutely abhor Dostoevsky, his smugness, his neuroticism, his perverse melodramatic sentimentality. A sick author for sick people, and this blind infatuation by him is a shining example of the decline of the West.
Dostoevsky feels like a much more interesting fellow. We could talk about the Jews.
>>24090432Tolstoy literally thought alcohol was evil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1y9A7sCLUc&t=58s
>>24090432If you are alluding to Dostoevsky’s worst novels, then, indeed, I dislike intensely The Brothers Karamazov and the ghastly Crime and Punishment rigamarole. No, I do not object to soul-searching and self-revelation, but in those books the soul, and the sins, and the sentimentality, and the journalese, hardly warrant the tedious and muddled search. Dostoyevsky’s lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity – all this is difficult to admire. I do not like this trick his characters have of ”sinning their way to Jesus” or, as a Russian author, Ivan Bunin, put it more bluntly, ”spilling Jesus all over the place." Crime and Punishment’s plot did not seem as incredibly banal in 1866 when the book was written as it does now when noble prostitutes are apt to be received a little cynically by experienced readers. Dostoyevsky never really got over the influence which the European mystery novel and the sentimental novel made upon him. The sentimental influence implied that kind of conflict he liked—placing virtuous people in pathetic situations and then extracting from these situations the last ounce of pathos. Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoevsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist. He was a prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. I admit that some of his scenes, some of his tremendous farcical rows are extraordinarily amusing. But his sensitive murderers and soulful prostitutes are not to be endured for one moment—by this reader anyway. Dostoyevsky seems to have been chosen by the destiny of Russian letters to become Russia’s greatest playwright, but he took the wrong turning and wrote novels.
>>24090432oh yeah, me and ol' Lev, kicking it back with a couple of brewskis; maybe get a couple of broads in, dance a mazurka, listen to some Rachmaninoff, have a nice meal (service à la russe); we'd really chat it up about high culture and all that jazz.
>>24090624I assume he is the Russian equivalent of boomer self-improvement /lit/ there or something like.Only writer officially endorsed by the Russian orthodox church, ridiculous.
>>24090500>Would've hugged Tolstoyhe would punch you.
>>24090773and i would forcefully kiss him for that
>>24091945And if he escalates in his reaction are your going to escalate in yours? Are you saying you want to rape Tolstoy? Is that where you are going with this?
>>24091956may that be left for imagination
Of all the artist types in the world , the writer is the last I would want to drink with . And of all the writers , a prose writer is the last I would want to drink with . And of all the prose writers , the depressive realists are the last . I would prefer some near-suicidal low-inhibition extremely high passions Poet or actor to drink with , if you have ever spent time around writers , you would know that in spoken word they are (very usually) incredibly dull and stuttering , strange phenomenon
>>24090432If i choose to drink alone will i get two beers?
difficult to say. Dosto would be more low and depressed, but with Tolstoy you risk a full blown psychotic episode where he leaves for a train station while rambling about Jesus
>>24091981Yes, and a vocation.
>>24090432i'd rather drink with puskin. he will probably even help me get laid with some russian rich bitch.
>>24090624>ToлcтaгoIt's Toлcтoгo, actually.
>>24090447Kek
>>24090432Tolstoj.I'll ask him about his opinion on the current state of the art.
would do with lermontov to drinkwith dosto id go to the casino, roulettewith tolstoy a cup of tea and a joint
>>24092021this pic goes unbelievably hard.
>>24090432Honestly, I like them both. Interesting that when Tolstoy attempted to write in a Dostoyevskian mode (Resurrection) he completely flopped..Though ultimately I think Tolstoy the greater artist I'd probably rather hang out and have a beer with Dostoyevsky, the more approachable (human?) of the two
>>24090641Pretty sure he backpedaled on the quote you’re sharing. He was vegan his last years of life lol.
>>24091956>>24091965Hearty kek
>>24092045He hated all art except children's fairy tales so I mean he probably wouldn't like much.
>>24090432Both, I like beer mate
>>24090641what a fag
Tolstoy isn't even that bad. I don't get why you would need to rage-bait people just to not let him be mogged by Dostoevsky
>>24093739>I like beer>posts Extra DryThe nature of man is contradiction.
Alcohol is really bad for you.https://www.foxnews.com/health/im-neurosurgeon-heres-what-alcohol-does-bodySo drink up, pseuds!
>>24094518>..is a contradictionAgree, though unsure if I'm supposed to
>>24090432Neither. I like to drink by myself.
I got a secret to tell you but I don't actually drink alcohol neither do drugs yet people still think I do those
>>24090432Gogol
