All the russian names are throwing me off. I keep forgetting who is who.

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east asians have honorifics for every occasion
slavs have 20 different versions of their name for every different context
meanwhile westerners use their first name for everything.
i don't care if it makes me look extremely autistic - every time i meet a westerner, i address them as "mister [surname]" and progress the names i use according to the development of the relationship. i will respect nietzsche's ethics of distance no matter how much you may make familiarity the norm!

Whatever you say, anon-kunosha.

>>24574103 (OP)
I think I had similar feelings early on when I started reading Dostoyevsky's works, but you get used to it after a while. If need be, write a small note with short descriptions of the characters and use it as a bookmark.

Yeah I can only imagine how hard and annoying it must be for non Russian readers. I think what you could do is try and only memorize the first names since the middle names aren't particularly important anyway. So, for example, you would only memorize "Stepan" and not "Trofimovich", "Nikolai" and not "Vsevolodovich", etc. Simply ignore the middle names. Surnames should be relatively easy since some of the major characters share them and others are fairly short, stuff like Shatov or Stavrogin shouldn't be hard to remember. While for us Russians all these names are very common and natural and we don't have any trouble remembering them, there's no reason you should exert yourself over something that's honestly pretty trivial and unimportant. These middle names are basically the Russian version of honorifics, they don't matter much at all.

>>24574146
where are you from sperg-sama?

>>24574103 (OP)
Jot them down in a page.

>>24574103 (OP)
yeah this filtered be hard. i had to come back to it a few times, but in the end, it became my favorite dosto novel. most of the characters in the beginning will fade out pretty quickly. just remember the name of out narrartor, his friend who makes something of an ass of himself, and his wife. those three are the only important characters from the start. after that the focus will quickly shift the to characters beloning to the next generation down, whom i found much more memorable.
still no fucking idea what that scene with the sugar loves meant.

>>24574103 (OP)
Just keep reading, the names are repeated so often, it's impossible to not know them at the end of the book

That's what the blank page at the beginning of a novel is for. Just write it down

for example who even remembers mavriky nikolaevich drozdov in these times

>>24575622
You don't have to remember every single character's name, the most important ones are enough

>>24574146
Shit's complicated. There is also a plural (You) that you are supposed to use when addressing a stranger, a superior or an older person, also using the apt honorific and the patronymic. It's a bloody minefield, this name system.

that's to make you think you are reading some complex book and you're intelligent for that.

>>24575922
yes, that pretentious cunt shouldve used american names
fucking commie