/lit/ - Literature

>>17790710
because of this

>picrel
>atheist
Still loved the father Zosima and Alyosha stuff despite not being religious

Holy fuck I didn't know russian lit was this fucking good

ITT post books that have made you cry
>the burial of Ilioucha in Brothers Karamazov

From the prosecutor's speech, Part IV, Book 12, Chapter 8:
>Perhaps so, but what if he lied unconsciously, what if he himself imagined that it happened that way,
his mind precisely being struckfinally by the news of the lackey's sudden death? You did see that scene today, you saw what state the man was in. He stood here and spoke, but where was his mind? Today's testimony from a delirious man was followed by a document, the defendant's letter to Miss Verkhovtsev, written by him two days before he committed the crime, containing beforehand a detailed program of the crime. Why, then, are we looking for the program and its authors? It was accomplished exactly following this program, and accomplished by none other than its author. Yes, gentlemen of the jury, 'accomplished as written!'
Does Dostoevsky imply here that Dmitri could just as well have been the murderer? That Ivan's visit to Smerdyakov might have been a fantasy on account of Ivan's condition? That everything could have taken place exactly as the prosecutor describes?
I have only just read this, I haven't finished the book yet but I'm about to.
But still, this could mean that it is not certain who the murderer is, even to the reader, right?

This book makes me want to become a monk.

just read part 2 chapter 3 where alyosha encounters the school boys. at the end of the chapter alyosha thinks to himself that he must find this boy again as soon as possible, when he has time.
i like this pattern at this point in the book where alyosha is being asked again and again to "come tomorrow" etc., how there are always new tasks for him, how he is being pulled into the world and how father zosima pushes him into the world.
i cant really explain it well but i felt like posting this.

15Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.† 16For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.† 17And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.