I recently got back into reading, meaning the robots that monitor everything I do put a bunch of shit about reading in all my social media feeds, and I can't help but notice that the majority of it is shilling Dostoevsky. I understand he's been considered one of the greats for a long time now, but why is he TRENDY? How and why did this happen? Recently I made the mistake of clicking on some kind of self help video about different type of chuds, ending with the "redeemed chud", being Dostoevsky himself, conquering doomerism with faith. Something feels slightly off about his current popularity, like it's being shilled to serve an agenda. Has anyone else noticed this? Am I schizophrenic?
>>25161749I have not felt any notable increase in Dostoevsky shilling recently, I think you're probably just noticing it more now that it's something that's on your mind.
>>25161759Nah, he’s right, I think with his popularity growing with younger readers on social media platforms though there’s certainly a trend
I don't have a single fact to back this up, but Dostoyevski is currently pushed hard as a part of a basically two-pronged russian disinfo operation to simultaneously demoralize the west and discredit western institutions, while at the same time playing up russian culture, military, history, etc.
>>25161749Dostoevsky wasn’t trying to be entertaining as many of new writers.His books are philosophical and meant to provoke thought.They also reflect life in the Russian Empire.
>>25161767I assumed it was to push Christianity onto the nihilistic younger generations since it seems a lot of people agree his argument for faith is one of the most compelling
>>25161767When I read Dostoevsky or even Gogol, etc. I get more of an impression that Russia is white trash shithole akin to what you'd see on Jerry Springer, though.
>>25161778you'll love bely then
>>25161749Yes you’re schizo
>>25161749Imagine not having youtube shorts switched off
Dostoevsky is bootleg tolstoy. But its more superficially psychological so it attracts conspicuous social media "readers"
Dosto sucks ass
>>25162257>>25162280Many are saying this.
>>25161749I think it's just kind of a larp basicallyZoomers want to feel like le sophisticated readers so they latched onto DostoevskyI don't think it's anything more than that
>>25162291>Dostoevsky>sophisticatedSurely they could have picked someone better? Actually, never mind, I don’t like Dosto all that much anyway so better him than Gogol or Tolstoy.
>>25162298the Dostoevsky hate on this sub has gone too far
>>25162312>on this subCorrect me if I’m wrong but isn’t that the reddit equivalent of “board”?
>>25162342oh shit, I said sub instead of board. oh shit oh FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK. NOW THESE NIGGERS WILL NEVER PROPERLY LOVE DOSTOEVSKY THE WAY I PERSONALLY FEEL HE DESERVES
>>25162312>sub
>>25162312>on this sub
taking this opportunity to repost one of my favorite /lit/ humor jpegs
Dostoevsky's work is the literary equivalent of American network television. It's schlocky, mass-appealing garbage.
>>25162394Truly, utterly, indubitably, this is ghastly rigamarole.
>>25161749It's a combination of multiple things and he's being shilled by different kinds of people. Keep in mind that I'm a bit of a Dostoyevsky detractor.First, the self-help slop crowd love Dostoyevsky because of Peterson shilling him so much and Peterson's reshaping of the popular self-help market. The short in your pic is an example of that. They see Dostoyevsky not as a great novelist, but as a way to understand psychology while seeming well read. The craft of a novel is irrelevant here. Secondly, the TikTok zoomers love Dostoyevsky because of the Dark Academia trend a while back. As to why he became so popular with zoomers in the first place, I'd argue that a lot of his writing is emotionally indulgent in a way that appeals to the narcissistic zoomer who, like the self-help peddler, also does not care for craft. A lot of Dostoyevsky fans will understandably disagree with me on this, and they may have a point when it comes to his best work, but I have to point to the fact that the most popular Dostoyevsky book on TikTok is White Nights, which is nothing more than cheap sentimental manipulation. If it isn't unreadable, then it is certainly isn't rereadable.
>>25162399not suitable for a man of such literary brilliance such as yourself, certainly not
>>25162424>White NightsReally now? I would have thought them less pathetic if they’d at least enjoyed TBK, I suppose it’s too long for (some of) them though. But yes, all I see him do well is communicates his ideas and spirituality through “characters” who feel less like people and more like mouthpieces for his little psychology lesson. I see little benefit in reading him over other Russian writers; and for those who claim to read his work for psychology, little benefit in reading him over actual psychologists.
>>25162394I just finished Notes from a Dead House, I like the part where the one jew shows up and immediately starts working as a moneylender.
>>25161749A lot of his ideas (which overshadow the other aspects of the book) are relevant and easily intuited today. He and Kafka have a strangely modern sensibility that just makes them easily approachable for people wanting to get into ""smart"" books.
>>25162475Never could get into Kafka and his tales. Perhaps I’m just filtered though, I read in translation after all.
>>25162424do his other books get better? I read white nights only (because I rushed to the book store over a lunchbreak and just wanted something to read that wouldn't be terrible) and it reads like a very long r9k post
>>25161749I don't get it either. Dostoevsky is incredibly overrated, melodramatic, manic, structurally loose, etc. His only masterpiece is TBK and that one doesn't get as shilled as his other works, unsurprisingly.
>>25161749young men have always loved dosto because his stories speak to the life experience and perspectives of young menhe's been trendy for over a century. you just have different groups and sub cultures championing him currently
>>25161749Yes you are a schitzo, but the Dosto popularity peaked when Peterson talked about him and a lot of people grabbed up his books, what you see now is probably just a minor trend on booktube/booktok (not really sure what booktok Is thought it was girls making short videos about YA books on tiktok and I only have instagram so idk), if anything due to the war in Ukraine a lot of people are trying to reduce russian literature in the "popular circles".>>25162919I have not read white nights but I am just gonna go with a Yes. TBK, The idiot, the gambler all are wonderful. most "chuds" and "tiktok zoomers" read white nights as a start (its short), and I guess som also read crime and punishment, and then mentions that they have read Dosto. Which they have but Dostos brilliance truly comes in his written characters, their differences, their choices and how their different philosophies (ideas) change the circumstances that have occured due to their own actions, or actions of relevant characters, belief, love, spite, depression, and anguish are always major points in all his bigger books. This clearly shown in his longer books, especially TBK.
>>25161749Dostoyevsky shilling has been a major thing more than ten years now. It's attached to the Jordan-Peterson-Andrew-Tate thing and the Tradcath meme. Basically this safe edgy christcuck "Counter-Jihad" shit that Likud thought could motivate young White men to support Israel, but has ultimately backfired on them
>>25163281It's also the same reason you always get Jordan Peterson and Peter Hitchens or whatever in your YouTube recommended if you watch something too edgy. It's this pacificistic Christian deradicalization pipeline that's intended to focus on your negativity towards troons, Muslims and muh communist racist left rather than Israel and the bourgeois class
>>25161749Because he perfectly represented modern chuds in the 19th century and the 21th century is the chud age where every single introverted human being has been chuddified by Them.
