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Anonymous
02/01/26(Sun)12:22:24 No.25060103 He was so unpretentious
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Anonymous
02/01/26(Sun)13:37:03 No.25060184 I dont think crime and punishment was 10/10
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Anonymous
02/01/26(Sun)13:39:53 No.25060185 >>25060184
more like GR/10
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Anonymous
02/01/26(Sun)14:15:04 No.25060219 Was discussion of Dostoevsky always as shallow as the usual threads on /lit/ on him are? I only read a few of his books after Peterstein went mainstream, and I know he refers to him a lot.
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Anonymous
02/01/26(Sun)17:50:49 No.25060511 >>25060184
neither do most dostoevsky appreciators
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Anonymous
02/01/26(Sun)18:10:10 No.25060549 >>25060103
I… sort of enjoyed The Brothers Karamazov. I just can’t get behind his prose, I don’t think it’s bad as everyone says it is, but it bores me. I prefer Gogol, Dead Souls felt more idiosyncratic in its style and I suppose that’s what grips me
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Anonymous
02/01/26(Sun)19:18:46 No.25060696 >>25060549
One of the most famous translators of Dostoyevsky's books famously translated the meaning but didn't bother trying to emulate the style at all, so her translations are often criticised for making every Russian author's books feel the same.
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Anonymous
02/01/26(Sun)19:38:02 No.25060737 >>25060549
gogol and bely mog dost free
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Anonymous
02/01/26(Sun)20:35:55 No.25060870 >>25060696
Constance Garnett?
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Anonymous
02/01/26(Sun)22:45:25 No.25061180 I'm going to read White Nights
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Anonymous
02/02/26(Mon)18:09:54 No.25062792 too bad he wasn't very smart
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Anonymous
02/03/26(Tue)11:16:48 No.25064332 >>25060870
I'm reading her translation of The Karamazov Brothers. Seems good so far, and i can tell it doesn't sound/feel the same as The Idiot.
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Anonymous
02/03/26(Tue)20:54:13 No.25065176 >>25060103
But we was manic.
>>25060184
It's not. It's a 8/10 at best. Brothers Karamazov are a 9/10 at least, though.
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Anonymous
02/03/26(Tue)22:11:18 No.25065396 >>25060549
Unless you read it in Russian, it doesn’t matter what you think.
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Anonymous
02/03/26(Tue)22:12:19 No.25065400 >>25060549
>I…
Faggot detected
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Anonymous
02/03/26(Tue)22:27:52 No.25065421 >>25060103
No he was very pretentious he just also hated himself so he forcibly wrote in a way that was intentionally trying very hard to be unpretentious
Most writers are naturally very pretentious just FYI
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Anonymous
02/03/26(Tue)22:39:54 No.25065439 >>25060103
Every one of his books tries to be a life lesson. Nothing more pretentious than that.
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Anonymous
02/03/26(Tue)22:42:18 No.25065444 >>25065421
Thanks for enlightening us faggot
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Anonymous
02/04/26(Wed)01:07:49 No.25065710 >>25065396
>>25065400
Just transition already dostoniggers
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Anonymous
02/04/26(Wed)01:38:03 No.25065779 >>25060103
being unpretentious is a form of pretentiousness
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Anonymous
02/04/26(Wed)01:48:38 No.25065812 >>25060103
Petulant moralizer and I believe in God
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Anonymous
02/04/26(Wed)01:51:16 No.25065818 >>25060103
Does anyone have that /lit/ meme that's like "every dostoevsky novel goes like this"
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Anonymous
02/04/26(Wed)02:28:38 No.25065870 No concept needs more than 250 pages
Anyone who writes fat books are pretentious
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Anonymous
02/04/26(Wed)02:36:40 No.25065880 >>25065870
Pleonasm isn’t always pretentious, it’s often a demonstration of someone who has no concept of brevity in the form of a book. Other times pedantry, a grand complex narrative or autistic intricacy leads to doorstoppers.
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Anonymous
02/04/26(Wed)20:25:01 No.25067184 >>25065421
He never said that
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