What is the greatest Russian novel and why is it A Hero of Our Time?
>What if airpot lit... but sigma!Groundbreaking idea Lermontov, bravo.
>>24963824A lot of airports around in 1840
>>24963813I've read Pushkin, Gogol, Goncharov, Lermontov, Turgenev and Dostoevsky. A Hero of Our Time is among the weakest things I've encountered in that tradition; less compelling than almost everything except Dostoevsky at his absolute worst. That's partly on me, as I have a strong aversion to Romantic aesthetics and melodrama, and this piece of shit leans heavily on both!
>>24963813It's obvious choice but Anna Karenina, Yevgeniy Onegin, Brothers KaramazovI read them Russian
>>24963813I'll throw in Devil's because Stavrogin is literally me, also obviously Oblomov
Anna Karenina and it’s not even remotely close.
>>24963813it's still anna karenina
>>24964764Romanticism just doesn't hit as hard today when desire and emotions are given such great precedence over reason. Which is why the baroque era seems to us to be more novel in its stoic lasciviousness and stark opulence.
It's Eugene Onegin. I don't think anything like it has been written before or since. The closest thing in English is Byron's Don Juan
>>24966175It really was max comfy and max prose hey, I'm curious to hear what people think is Pushkin's best work if it's not Eugene Onegin
>>24966148Reason only exists to justify desire
>>24966424Without reason, why would desire need to be justified?
Tough choice. Either the master and margarita or the Gambler for me.
>>24966131>>24964976Those Levin passages that go on and on about agriculture are no-joke amazing.
