Thread 24843892

Why have so many great historical authors come from Russia? They are clearly overrepresented.

They're all fucking shit and miserable.

>>24843892 (OP)
Russia is one of the main protagonists of human history and thus Russian intellectuals have more soul

>>24843900
Is that the key to producing good literature?

>>24843900
>they're all fucking miserable
t. has never read russian literature

actually, if you look at the numbers even ireland is more overrepresented per capita in terms of great writers than russia is

>>24843916
Name me ten russian classics that aren't miserable.

>>24843918
bruh what, theres no way

>>24843920
Poetry from Pushkin to Mayakovsky
Chekhov's Short Stories
Krylov's fables
Basically all of Gogol (Dead Souls is not a "miserable" work)
The Twelve Chairs
The Master and Margarita

And then even something like The Death of Ivan Ilyich still has some comedic elements in it.

>>24843892 (OP)
All the suffering. Too bad the Revolution drove out all the smart ones

>>24843892 (OP)
>They are clearly overrepresented
Mein nigger nobody can name a single Russian before Pushkin. They had a golden age then basically nothing before or after.

>>24843960
>Gogol
>not a miserable work
Nigga...

>>24844102
They dominated the 19th and 20th century.

>Pushkin
>Gogol
>Turgenev
>Dostoevsky
>Tolstoy
>Chekhov
>Bulgakov
>Nabokov
>Solzhenitsyn

>>24843900
>>24843916
>>24843920

What's wrong with miserable literature? Are you just a ditzy plowhorse that ignores bad stuff and prefers to read books about gay college student mystery novels?

>>24844225
>>Chekhov
And that is where their golden age ends. And even then they didn't "dominate" anything. They never created a literary movement, as opposed to the French during the same century. Realism? French. Naturalism? French. Symbolism? French. Even Russian Romanticism was greatly inspired by the French one. All of this makes sense considering how close culturally the two countries are (and how Russian nobility all spoke French), but they clearly lived in the shadows of the French at best. And I'm not even French, but thinking the Russians are anywhere close is simply stupid.


>>Bulgakov
>>Nabokov
>>Solzhenitsyn
>dominated the 20th century
lol, lmao even

Anyways gotta go now

>>24843892 (OP)
>Solzhenitsyn
Their last great writer, and haven't produced anything of value in some....40 years? the fetalAlcoholism and Chechnya destroyed their sense of poetic suffering, now they are just bitter and rapist.

>>24843920
War and Peace wasn't miserable despite the tragic events.

>>24843900
Filtered, the Russian classics like to revel in misery porn but they're also so hopelessly sentimental and optimistic that their worst sin is being dreadfully saccharine.

>>24844992
Barring a few clever but insubstantial sci-fi writers, every noteworthy Russian writer of the last century was a victim and bitter opponent of Bolshevism either living in exile or completely ostracised from mainstream life. The Bolsheviks set out to destroy Russian culture, and they succeeded.

>>24844259
Nabokov was very influential, you braindead twit.

I want to learn Russian for literature one day
What's the poetry like?
Obviously we don't really care about it in the anglosphere but there's quite a lot of it right?
Anyway the only Russian authors I've read so far is Tolstoy and Lermontov
I've read A Hero or Our Time 6 times

>>24843960
>Mayakovsky
>killed himself
>Checkhov
>a story about abused orphan strangles a baby to get some sleep

>>24844259
>Naturalism? French.
This trash counts as a minus.
Being forced to read this crap in highschool made me a worse reader since I got the habit of skipping paragraphs and made me think "wow, serious literature is boring and meaningless"

>>24845041
>Nabokov was very influential, you braindead twit.
Lolita came out in 1955 anon, WTF have they been doing since then? Nabokov was also American and living in the west since 1919. Surely when we talk about him it is the American soul not Russian in discussion.

>>24843900
>Russia = le sad
Peak midwittery and a sign you haven't actually engaged with anything apart from maybe a Dostoevsky novel (and even he fucking wrote some funny ones).