He really was a much better writer than Dostoyevsky.
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>>25013112No one really disagrees with that in terms of prose. Russians outright find dosto’s prose to be bad.
I found Tolstoy underwhelming to outright bad (Levin sections in AK). Dostoevsky meanwhile ranges from dogshit (Demons) to brilliant (Grand Inquisitor). I think I prefer Dostoevsky, especially since you don't really feel Dostoevsky's bad prose in translation.
>>25013143Russians are psyoped into hating Russian literature by being forced to read it in school at the age of 14 when noone can be bothered with it.
>Has 200 living descendants 4chniggers could NEVER
>>25013269I imagine most of them are frauds
>>25013112He's the greatest ever
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>>25013112I favor Dostoevsky, but that's just objectively true. He was embarrassingly bad with money (reading his letters is like watching Safdie brothers movie) and never had the time to refine his work.
>>25013118Thanks for the tip Twain.
>>25013754That's Joyce
>>25013143i know russian but i read karamazov bros in a different language because what you said lol
>>25013112He was vastly better. His characters actually feel like real human beings and have some of the most complex characters development I have ever seen. He can do that, while also making his books epic in scope and scale, and he does it so effortlessly, it's amazing. He really is the best novelist of all time, and one of the greatest writers to ever walk the Earth.He's so good, he ruins literature for me. Nothing reaches him, in terms of relatability, other than Schopenhauer.
>>25015623read boris godunov by pushkin
>>25015623His characters have predictable russoid depravity and inner weakness while their "development" is typically just one from a set of variations on finding christianity. Permeated with vacuity, never amounting to genuine soul, walltexted ad nauseum.At least Dosto is self-aware of this pattern to strike the lows with greater force and present the phony redemption as an unavoidable last resort instead of self-righteous pedagogy.
>>25015623>His characters actually feel like real human beingsThe only character in literature that felt like a real human being to me is Leopold Bloom. Everything else reeks of artifice, including Tolstoy's characters.
