You do own a copy of Dostoevsky's collected works, right?

>>24580488 (OP)
What gibberish is that? I cant undetstand any of it

>>24580492
German

>>24580488 (OP)
So 'The Devils' is called 'Die, Demons' in German. Interesting.

>>24580488 (OP)
Is that polish?
Anyways ,ofcrs i do collect doetoevsky novels.
I own 4 everyman edition of novels that contains 4 of his greatest works (devils,notes from underground,brother karamazov,C&P and the idiot).Next I bought a Wordsworth classics edition of his collected short stories. I will humiliated and insulted + gambler someday.

>>24580510
>Is that polish?

>>24580488 (OP)
I like buying his work one at a time and only buy a new one when I'm done with what I currently have. I'm done with Demons and C&P, next up is gonna be the Idiot and probably some short stories and I'll save the brothers karamasov for last. I only read 1 Dosto novel per year, so it'll take me a while to get the full collection.

>>24580504
Well that’s an old title, the newest translation uses the title „Böse Geister“ (Evil Ghosts/Spirits)

>>24580488 (OP)
>You do own a copy of Dostoevsky's collected works, right?
No, I used my public library.

>>24580567
Library copies are dirty most of the time

>>24580544
never mind, it was a bad joke

>>24580574
>Library copies are dirty most of the time
I aimed to miss when ejaculating.

>>24580578
Explain the joke

t. humorless German

>>24580488 (OP)
>dostoJEWsky
Huh, so that was his real name after all and not a 4chan joke.

Reading Dostoevsky in German is quite a simulacrum of a morbid reading session.

>>24580634
Why is that?

>>24580504
>'Die, Demons' in German
Maybe germans are too stupid to understand Dostoyevsky criticized revolutionary endeavors.

>>24580658
Ah now I got the joke

Didn't Dostoevsky despise germans?
Also that's not his whole bibliography anon... Where's Bobok???

>>24580634
Why would it be a simulacrum of that rather than just being the thing itself? It is indeed a reading session, and if it's morbid then it's a morbid reading session. It's not a simulacrum of one because that's what it is.

I have three of his books, and that's three too many.

>>24580827
>Also that's not his whole bibliography anon..
It is, some of those contain more than one of his works. For example Bobok is included in the book "Der Spieler. Späte Romane und Erzählungen" (Late novels and novellas).

>>24580488 (OP)
If you are alluding to Dostoevsky’s worst novels, then, indeed, I dislike intensely The Brothers Karamazov and the ghastly Crime and Punishment rigamarole. No, I do not object to soul-searching and self-revelation, but in those books the soul, and the sins, and the sentimentality, and the journalese, hardly warrant the tedious and muddled search. 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 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." Crime and Punishment’s plot did not seem as incredibly banal in 1866 when the book was written as it does now when noble prostitutes are apt to be received a little cynically by experienced readers. 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. Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoevsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist. He was a prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. I admit that some of his scenes, some of his tremendous farcical rows are extraordinarily amusing. But his sensitive murderers and soulful prostitutes are not to be endured for one moment—by this reader anyway. Dostoyevsky 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.

Just his top 7

>>24580488 (OP)
No, the only one I've enjoyed is The Brothers Karamazov.

>>24580488 (OP)
>picrel

>>24581080
You need to get off porn

>>24580529
>I like buying his work one at a time and only buy a new one when I'm done with what I currently have.
Same here. I always take lengthy breaks between reading series/books from the same author. Finished Crime and Punishment, and currently reading Notes from the Underground. Will probably read The Brothers Karamazov next.

>>24581347
>Heh! Heh! Heh! To watch pornography... to watch a woman, with God's soul in her, have sexual intercourse! Heh, heh, heh. To do so and to enjoy it.. truly, yes, that is twisted. Yes, yes, that is a sick thing. Yes, it is.

Dosteov—BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM

>>24581080
>"every dosty novel"
>actual dosty novels never depict anything sexual like that

>>24581366
Why not read them chronologically?

>>24580634
Expand on that

>>24580488 (OP)
Bro is legit proto soap opera, fuck this normie shit.

>>24580488 (OP)
how the fuck am i suppose to read the titles?

>>24581390
This is great literature.

>>24580488 (OP)
ew, an attention seeking/obsessed pseud who likes to show off books as an object rather than show off its content