Has there ever been a more savage literary dismantling?

https://twain.lib.virginia.edu/projects/rissetto/offense.html

Nabokov ruined Dostoevsky for me by exposing his cheap tricks to elicit emotion in the reader. I can't take him seriously after that

>>24567504
Where can I read this? I'm interested in using these cheap tricks for evil acts and seduction

>>24567506
"Lectures on Russian Literature"
some quotes:
>Dostoyevsky never really got over the influence which the European mystery novel and the sentimental novel made upon him. The sentimental influence implied that kind of conflict he liked—placing virtuous people in pathetic situations and then extracting from these situations the last ounce of pathos

>Dostoyevsky’s lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human English words expressing several, although by no means all, aspects of poshlost are, for instance, ”cheap,” ”sham,” ”smutty,” ”highfalutin,” ”in bad taste.” dignity – all this is difficult to admire. I do not like this trick his characters have of ”sinning their way to Jesus” or, as a Russian author, Ivan Bunin, put it more bluntly, ”spilling Jesus all over the place""

>He seems to have been chosen by the destiny of Russian letters to become Russia’s greatest playwright, but he took the wrong turning and wrote novels

>>24567491 (OP)
Empty whining

>>24567504
You needed someone to explain that to you?

there's not a lot there per-word in dosto, he's someone you read through more quickly than other 'good' authors

>>24567491 (OP)
>Counting these out, what is left is Art. I think we must all admit that.