I stopped reading after boyhood
All I remember is the scene where he's in the carriage and there's a storm and some beggers under a bridge

So Tolstoy was a whiny bitter bitch? I find that hard to believe

>>25212894
Same but I don't remember that scene. I remember the one of him spying on the holy madman they let into their house

>>25212889
>>25212938
It's not that he was a whiny bitter bitch, but I see where OP is coming from in the sense that Tolstoy gets himself into these situations where he's trying to show off how clever or different he is, lying just because, and all around being incredibly awkward. But then you have to remember he's writing about himself as a teenager, lost his mother when he was very young (and while abroad!), and genuinely was in some sense, well, a genius. Basically he was a moody teenager with ideas way beyond his years and some healthy narcissim, but the Underground Man is like 40 and acting out of spite rather than inexperience so the comparison is a bit flat.
Also, Tolstoy denounced Boyhood and Youth in his later life. I personally also think only Childhood is essential.

This nigga, Tolstoy, is my fucking goat. Dostoyevsky is a chud compared to him.

>>25212988
You have to take Tolstoy's repudiations of his work with a grain of salt. According to his own words, the only 2 things he wrote that he considered good were 2 random short stories he wrote for kids

>>25213003
Yet you speak like a retard. Why?

>>25213982
A faggot who feels a need to reply is very much a Dostoyevsky reader

>>25212988
This book is fiction, anon. Tolstoy's mother died when he was two, his father when he was nine. No doubt it takes parts from Tolstoy's personal life like his other semi-autobiographical characters, but it's more about the "meaning" of the moral development of a young person and isn't a true autobiography.

>>25214995
wow that's nuts, I didn't realize that. He just made up his childhood? was it at least similar to the real thing?