Now don't be a meanie and spoil it.I bought it after having read Anna Karenina- well it's been some years since I've read it. I don't know if it's the specific book I've gotten but I'm already faced with a bunch of French passages and translations in the footnotes. A bunch of despicable boring nobles. I should know better than to ask, but it gets better right? And when it does, it's not simply about war, is it? There ought to be some peace as well?How does it compare to Anna Karenina is what I'm asking.
>>24733325>Anna Karenina. Incomparable prose artistry. The supreme masterpiece of 19th-century literature.>War and Peace.A little too long. A rollicking historical novel written for the general reader, specifically for the young. Artistically unsatisfying. Cumbersome messages, didactic interludes, artificial coincidences. Uncritical of its historical sources.
>>24733355I don't mind the length. I wouldn't say that your criticisms are what I thought to be the case but I welcome them and thank you for your input. I suppose AK started with a bunch of nobles frolicking around just as well, but there's something about high class dinner parties wherein the author doesn't ridicule the characters which turns me off from reading.
He's actually dead the whole time
>>24733355>look guys! guys look I've just read those quotes where Nabokov talks about writers look!
>>24733384This. A homeless man named. Fydoor-Hodor is flapping the cadaver’s mouth up and down and speaking the words from behind the coffin.
>>24733560How did you know that about me, and that it was me?
