Dostoevsky:>"Russian Russianovich opened the door, crossed the living room and kitchen, smelled some faint fragance in the air, went up the stairs and entered his bedroom. There was tea and bread, put there by Maria Russianova."Any English language writer ever:>"John J. Johnson (Jack was his nickname, sometimes Johnny; yeah, he felt like Johnny that day) opened the door; it was dirty. Filthy, like the devil's foreskin. Crossed the livingroom ('More like death row', thought he), from the kitchen he smelled the puignant odor of roasted chicken, probably way too roasted, like his soul. Went up the stairs; old, cranky staircase; he could his own emptiness step by step. Finally opened his bedroom; slowly, carefully, methodically, religiously, faithlessly. There she was, Mary Jo Johnson, or was it the husk of her; black, dark, bitter coffee, some crackers too. 'Cracker' he recalled... his dead best friend's last words..."What's with anglos and their bloated attempts at self-importance
Horrible pastiche. Read Moar.
Reading Dostoevsky for the first time, I am surprised by how minimal his prose is. Always thought those old authors were all ridiculously verbose. He feels closer to Kafka.
>>25480539Kafka did call Dostoevsky his blood brother.
>>25480539Dostoevsky is incredibly verbose. Just wait until all the characters become obnoxiously manic and/or sentimental and you spend 100-200 pages waiting for it to end.
Pilgrim's Progress > All Russian icon-kisser lit
>>25480068Holy shit this is spot on kek
>>25480068All I ever felt reading his works was "holy shit this is literally TLC" with how schizo his characters act and how dramatic everything is, like a reality TV show.
>>25480068>DostoevskyHow it reads in English is not a true representation of how it reads in Russian. RU->EN is difficult without the translator adding in a bunch of additional words to convey meaning that wasn't stated explicitly, but the Russian reader would understand. Hence why you get lots of criticism such "you're reading Constance Garnett not X,Y,Z".Also, plenty of Russian writers criticised the quality of Dostoevsky's prose>Any English language writer ever / What's with anglos and their bloated attempts at self-importanceLow quality bot posting for yousYou could have just made an interesting post about the first point (and probably have gotten more engagement than you low quality bait)
>>25480909no, it isn't...
>>25480068Compare one russian dude to "every english writer ever", but it's actually only a few english writers that you remember.And the one russian writer that you've "read" was an english writer's russian>English translation.Explode, retard.
>>25480699>Just wait until all the characters become obnoxiously manic and/or sentimental and you spend 100-200 pages waiting for it to end.Ivan's outbursts in TBK are some of the best chapters in the novel
