/lit/ - Literature

>>14925911
This video is clearly satirical but on a serious note I've never been able to extract anything of value from Baudrillard's works. I've read The Spirit of Terrorism, Passwords, and gave up half way through Simulacra because I wasn't following his reasoning and it felt like a waste of time. I'm not exactly well versed in philosophy but I can follow thinkers like Plato or Aristotle fairly well. When I'm reading Baudrillard it feels more like a work of prose than a genuine pursuit of knowledge; he seems to intentionally obscure his writing with inaccessible terminology and when I do feel confident that I've grasped what he's trying to tell me, it's nothing that I haven't read in prior thinkers that were able to express themselves much more succinctly. Is it just me?

>Great Writers of Imperial Russia
Tolstoy
Dostoevsky
Lermontov
Turgenev
Gogol
Pushkin
Goncharov

>Great Writers after the collapse of Imperial Russia
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