Thread 24803001

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Anonymous 10/15/2025, 6:10:36 PM No.24803001 [Report] >>24803006 >>24803018 >>24803020 >>24803079 >>24803394 >>24805709 >>24805792

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>mfw when I'm reading a classic and there's heckin' racism and misogyny in it
How do you deal with this, /lit/?

Anonymous 10/15/2025, 6:14:36 PM No.24803002 [Report] >>24803077

There are many better reasons to ditch a Dostoevsky novel than this.

Anonymous 10/15/2025, 6:18:27 PM No.24803006 [Report]

>>24803001 (OP)
I read it?
Just read it.

Anonymous 10/15/2025, 6:23:53 PM No.24803018 [Report] >>24803027 >>24803073

>>24803001 (OP)
Bear in mind that if a modern reviewer makes it clear they disagree with certain views of the author, or with such views expressed in the text, the rest of their criticism can be safely ignored. It's just an embellishment they think they need to write to stop you reading a book they don't agree with politically.

Anonymous 10/15/2025, 6:25:16 PM No.24803020 [Report]

>>24803001 (OP)
I laugh at yet another Pinecone gag

Anonymous 10/15/2025, 6:29:30 PM No.24803027 [Report]

>>24803018
no, actual literary criticism deals with this too. this just isn't that

Anonymous 10/15/2025, 6:56:10 PM No.24803073 [Report] >>24804988

>>24803018
>the rest of their criticism can be safely ignored
There's usually very little other criticism.

Anonymous 10/15/2025, 6:58:02 PM No.24803077 [Report]

>>24803002
Name a few, champ.

Anonymous 10/15/2025, 6:58:52 PM No.24803079 [Report] >>24803215

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>>24803001 (OP)
Philistines should be banned from reading. What even constitutes as "overwrought" nowadays?

Anonymous 10/15/2025, 8:12:44 PM No.24803215 [Report]

>>24803079
Let them read. What they should be banned from is reviewing. The democratic review model of Goodreads makes it an even worse cesspit of useless personal opinion and whatever-signaling than 4chan.

Anonymous 10/15/2025, 9:42:12 PM No.24803394 [Report] >>24804926

>>24803001 (OP)
You haven't read a book

Anonymous 10/16/2025, 1:08:04 PM No.24804926 [Report]

>>24803394
Who, me? (OP)

Anonymous 10/16/2025, 1:57:13 PM No.24804988 [Report] >>24805173

>>24803073
Can anything positive they say be trusted either?
If their literary critique is just things they politically disagree with how can you expect their literary praise to not just be things they politically agree with?

Anonymous 10/16/2025, 3:51:46 PM No.24805173 [Report]

>>24804988
No, you're correct.

Anonymous 10/16/2025, 9:12:52 PM No.24805709 [Report]

>>24803001 (OP)
What the fuck is even racist or misogynistic about Crime and Punishment? One or two mentions of Jewish people being Jewish? The fact that some women get beaten? What?

Anonymous 10/16/2025, 9:51:51 PM No.24805792 [Report]

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>>24803001 (OP)
>how
grow the fuck up