What makes Russians the best writers?
>>25042498Getting your asshole ran through by an authoritarian government 24/7 does wonders on one's mind
>>25042498Your midwittery
cozy weather and psychopathic women
>>25042498Authors were forced to obfuscate their ideas since saying what you really wanted to say could get you thrown up against a wall and shot. As a reader this means you get to read between the lines. Why did Dostoyevsky become a great writer? Because of ten years of forced labor. What conclusion do I make? We should imprison more people. Our history of art and culture is brought out by either prison or sexual deviancy.
>>25042553I'll take the sex deviancy path
>>25042555we already have enough of that so we need to up the prison quota to get more of both
>>25042553only burgers think dost is a top tier russian novelist
>>25042509sippy bippy
>>25042498The French, Germans, British poets and American novelists are all better.
>>25042612HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>25042553Dosto was not subjected to forced labor.
>>25042612brit poets are mayhaps on par with russian novelists if we're talking pre-WW2. everything else is a lol.
One thing I noticed in Russian books - Why are Russian men and women so different in character? They are like two separate cultures/races. Could it be that the Russian Y chromosome has a different ancestor than the X chromosomes??
>>25042612French lit sounds like essay with proseGerman lit sounds like philosophy dialogue with proseBritish lit sounds like fairy tales for adultsI agree with american one and that's because we lived in american(ized) world
>>25042663>essay with proseKino>philosophy dialogue with proseKino>fairy tales for adultsKINO
>>25042498Unless you read Russian, you have no basis for this opinion.
>>25042612german novels are not outstanding, plays and poems are though
>>25042621>Dostoevsky served four years of exile with hard labour at a katorga prison camp in Omsk, Siberia, followed by a term of compulsory military service.
in the 19th century, the best russians held on to a distinct identity and resisted westernization, which informed their work and imbued it with a sincerity does not exist in western trend-chasers and gave a different perspectivethen suddenly everything came crashing down in the 20th century with the revolution and russians were then able to offer a raw and real perspective on social and political issues and ideology that were still highly romanticized in western literature at the time all and all i would say that what makes them better is that they are european and thus just familiar enough to be relatable, but at the same time literally separate from the west, like their historical and cultural development is detached and branched out parallel to ours, which allows them to give a different perspective. even their "backwardness" allows them to look as things we take for granted in a different light, like an objective observer looking at a trend from a distance vs those of us in the west who are immersed completely and cannot see it from the outside
>>25042498writing sentences longer than most people's first chapters.
>>25042498
>>25042668Did you get lost again?
>>25042593That quote is from Vladimir Zhirinovsky
>>25042778Doesn't he prefer Bahktin
>>25042722Absolute majority of Russian intellectuals were pro-Western. It's not an opinion, it's a fact. Shut the fuck up you кoнчeнный дoлбoёб, въeбaл бы пpямo пo твoeмy тyпoмy eблy пpямo ceйчac. Goofy ass double digit IQ monkey, you belong to /b/ with takes like this
>>25042811hence why i specified "the best", maybe try learning to read before coming to the literature board, faggot
>>25042821The best according to you, monkey? Do you even speak Russian, can you read it at all? The only famous anti-Western author was Dostoevsky.
>>25042498They aren't lol. It's just definitively Tolstoy and then a few others that some people like
>>25042612talking about nationalist literatures as though it were a contest is retarded. Tolstoy is writing novels in a mode of French/English bourgeois novels, he's just as connected with Western Europe as anyone else.
>>25042505Most great art requires suffering Russian rulers have always sought to encourage quality artistry
>>25042734What is the source of this?
>>25043212Art is not made through suffering . The suffering does not make the art it's the healing
>>25042804Alternative version of this joke:British lit: does duty have meaning?French lit: does love have meaning?Russian lit: does suffering have meaning?German lit: no.
I am learning Russian for literatureI have read Tolstoy, Chekhov and Lermontov but haven't gotten into much elseWhat am I in for?>>25042811Are there any slavophile authors that are commonly read?
>>25043509Dostoevsky and Thyutchev. You can see that the list is very short and the only person whom Westerners would know is Dostoevsky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_19th-century_Russian_Slavophiles
