I should have waited more time before I read this because now I know nothing I read after will be as good.
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>>25223459Have you read oh, I don’t know, literally anything written prior to 1800?
i'm halfway through this and so far i am not enjoying it more than hadji murat or war and peace
It was crazy to me after reading this to read that people sympathized with Anna. I felt she was intentionally written to be an annoying ungrateful bitch.
>>25223459Try reading your 2nd book.
>>25223459If you want the ultimate redpill blackpill whitepill combo read his religious and aesthetic nonfiction. I wish I could go back desu
>>25223513NTA but though it’s not the best thing ever written, there aren’t a lot of books in prose better than it.
>>25223465You're a pretty trash poster. What is something you think is good?>>25223495I'm guessing you just hate women in general?
>>25223587>You're a pretty trash poster. What is something you think is good?Infinite Jest
>>25223538>RedpillAnna Karenina>BlackpillPart 1 of A Confession, The Kreutzer Sonata>WhitepillResurrection, The Kingdom of God is Within You
We need to ban this Tolstoy obsessed psycho
>>25223619Better Tolstoy than Dostoevsky I say.
>>25223465I wish. Too bad half the novel dela with that cringe lord levin
>>25223619>it's less gay to fuck a tranny than fucking a twinkI guess
>>25223744Meant for>>25223667
>>25223465Despite the title and way it’s marketed the novel is really more about Levin and Scherbatsky with Anna as a B plot
>>25223754The book should’ve been called “Family Happiness.” But he already used that title for an earlier novella which he later disavowed.
>>25223459I thought it was overrated and bloated. For instance the race scene has no bearing on the plot whatsoever. The prose isn't even that great compared to the likes of Gogol and Kuprin.
>>25223459Petersburg. Read Petersburg.
>>25223820>For instance the race scene has no bearing on the plot whatsoever.I dislike the book too, but you're retarded if you can't see the horse=Anna analogy, it's as blatant as it gets.
>>25223459This is why I do pallet cleansers after every great work (read some enjoyable slop like a murder mystery or anything written by HG Wells). Then once you crave something profound again read something great.>>25223495>"I felt she was intentionally written to be an annoying ungrateful bitch."This. My take is that the book is Leo trying to explain to why women should be more like Kitty. Personally, though, my favorite character is Oblonsky for the mere fact that I feel myself becoming Oblonsky more as I age.>>25223820>"the race scene has no bearing on the plot whatsoever."The race scene is to show Anna's growing disinteterst in her husband and how he's seemingly oblivious to this fact.
>>25223825Are you that Andrej Belyj poster? I saw you around...liking Belyj.
>>25223842There’s another anon I think but I’ve shilled it a few times here recently.
>>25223842You mean the dumbass who skipped like 4 volumes of in search if lost time and jumped straight to the last volume and still has the gall to recommend him as a great modernist?Tell him he's a fag if so
>>25223820Literally every thread about Tolstoy on this board devolves into some pompous faggot dismissing his work for stupid reasons and then flaunting their superiority by mentioning other less-read authors as being better.
>>25223848I mean, as long as he doesn't pretend to have read the ones he hasn't read...what's the big deal
>>25223848Better than me, I only read swanns way and found it really boring and gay.
>>25223873At least you know you got filtered
>>25223746No one cares who your gay stupid joke was meant for>>25223754Whaat? You mean the guy posting stupid buzzword worthless shit posts hasn't actually read the book and has no clue what he's talking about, but thinks his stupid comment is just so good he has to chime in anyways? That's crazy man you're off the rails.>>25223820The race scene stuck with me and I can still feel it in my stomach. Books aren't just about what drives the plot directly, although yes it does contribute to it still.
>>25223852That's because tolstoi is dreadfully overrated. Moralizing soap-opera drivel.
>>25223852Usually in response to OP praising Tolstoy to high heavens, calling him the GOAT. I don't think Tolstoy is a bad writer, but putting him above Melville/Joyce is bizarre to me.
If you think MELVILLE is better than Goncharov or Turgenev, much less fucking TOLSTOY, you are clinically retarded and should not be allowed to voice your opinion on literature. Entire thread is bad though. Irony poisoned teenage shithole
>>25224105What a silly, immature post. You’re giving a bad name to all the Tolstoy enjoyers out there, stop it, faggot.
>>25224105> x better than yBoring and ignorant
>>25224105>nooo you can’t just like an author I don’t like over an author I like!!!!You’re fucking pathetic lol
>>25223838>HG Wells>slopit's weird how what you enjoy matters less than proper assessment sometimes
>>25224034>this retard again
what edition of "the death of ivan Ilyich" would anon's recommend ?I'm assuming that similarly to dostoevsky, there are multiple english translations and not all are made equal.
>>25224493Maude for everything by Tolstoy except AK (Bartlett) and W&P (Edmonds, or Maude revised by Mandelker)
>>25224562danke
>>25224562Why Bartlett for AK? I only read her Tolstoy biography
>>25223667based
>>25224493>what edition of "the death of ivan Ilyich" would anon's recommend ?The Criterion Collection BluRay. ;^)
>>25223611i think kreutzer is both red and black
>>25224105you want to sound smart so bad lmao. kill yourself vermin.
>>25227403True
