Thread 24531276

>Oh, you're really into reading?
>You love the Russians?
>You've only read Dostoevsky
>The Brothers Karamazov, Notes from the Underground
>You've never read Pushkin, Tolstoy or Lermontov?
>Don't have time?
>But you know Dostoevsky's the best, intuitively?
>You love how internal his characters get?
>He's just really really good?
I see I see

>>24531276 (OP)
I don't like the russians nor their misery porn slop

>>24531356
Not sure if I am missing the joke here, but Anna Karenina isn't misery porn. I think Dostoevsky is the only one of those guys known for writing misery porn.

>>24531276 (OP)
that vid is hilarious

>>24531276 (OP)
Why don't you recommend him a book from one of those authors instead of being such an antisocial FAGGOT

Actually, the greatest Russian epic by far is Quiet Flows the Don, but you'd have to be a native (or an extremely proficient) speaker to truly appreciate (or even comprehend, really) the language which is a huge part of its appeal, entirely lost in translation.

>>24532324
You can't even get the full thing in English. Only an abridged translation thats pretty shit. Makes me sad because I really want to read it.

I speak a little roosky yazik but not enough to read cool shit like this.

>>24531356
people just say this because putin went full retard. same as the anti-german sentiment in the US during ww1.

>>24532324
Wuthering heights is the same only without the war part.

>>24533129
no, we say this because we don't like their misery porn slop

>>24532324
>Quiet Flows the Don
Only became Idi i Smotri is Ukraine.

>>24531276 (OP)
Yeah I guess no not really no feel free to stop speaking to me whenever

tolstoy is crap there I said it
Ivan Ilyin bros let's goooooooooo

...but but but i read them all, even gontscharow turgenjev and gogol, so pleeease just one crumb of pussy maam

Russian stuff I’ve read:

> at least 100 of Chekov’s stories.
> Hadji Murad by Tolstoy
> Private Ivan Chonkin by Voinovich
> Monday starts on Thursday by the Strugatsky brothers

Am I a Russian literary intellectual, lit?

>>24531276 (OP)
I've read Anna Karenina, I've read Dead Souls, I've read Fathers and Sons. Dostoevsky's better.

>>24532324
No sweat. I'll just have Chat translate it for me.

>>24533096
This is not true, my grandmother has this unabridged English edition in 4 volumes from Foreign Languages Publishing House.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/127196497327
It was only sold in the USSR.
>>24532150
Tolstoy is regularly discussed here (only his novels, the rest can get really preachy and political, if you want some of this stuff then e.g. The Kreutzer Sonata or "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" are good examples of this).
A Hero of Our Time used to be a regularly discussed /lit/ classic.
People talk about Chekhov's short stories sometimes but his plays (Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull) are where his genius really shines.
Pushkin wrote some decent short stories but he's primarily a great lyric and epic poet, unfortunately all translations of him into non-Slavic languages are terrible. Same with Lermontov, also amazing poet, bad in translation, and /lit/ does not like poetry even if their translations were good.
>>24534064
Go read Chekhov's plays and The Good Soldier Švejk (better than Chonkin) right now
>>24531356
Fair but Chekhov is an exception to this IMO, very life-affirming and gentle vibes (shockingly, he grew up in sunny seaside Taganrog)

>>24533339
no, you say this because it's trendy.

>>24531276 (OP)
gogol da best