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I want to read Dostoievsky. where do I start?

>> No.12227181

>>12227169
White Nights or Crime and Punishment. Just don’t start with Notes from the Underground, I don’t know why the autists here think it is a good starting point.

>> No.12227185

Don't start him at all. He is pedantic and boring

>> No.12227241

>>12227181
why not Notes?
I'm planning to begin with that one, why shouldnt I?
its nice and short so if im getting bored then i atleast wont have to read another 400 pages

>> No.12227248

>>12227241
You know you can just not finish books you find boring, right?

>> No.12227257

>>12227248
>purchasing books you're not going to read
:O

>> No.12227264

>>12227257
>purchasing books

>> No.12227271

>>12227264
>piracy

>> No.12227919

>how to make this arrow green?

>> No.12227994

>>12227169
>I want to read Dostoievsky
Trust me, you really don't.

>where do I start?
Notes from Underground, so that you'll be put off for life.

Dostoevsky believed in redemption through suffering. Starting with his readers.

>> No.12228133

>>12227994

I love Dosto but this was a funny post.

>> No.12228184

>>12227185
>Pedantic
Yes. Yes sir it is.

>> No.12228204

>>12227169
Currently half way through the idiot. All I can tell you is don’t start there. It is dull garbage.

>> No.12228206

>>12227169
Start with the Greeks.

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12228270

>>12227241
no, you shouldn't.

Read C&P first, then NFU.

NFU is a sardonic, cynical, bitter harangue. It's weirdly experimental and artistic and you kind of have to read the whole thing in a day or two to get it's effect. D made the first half deliberately confusing and tedious to make his point. For these reason it is harder to read than C&P in my experience, in spite of it being short.

It is nonsensical to have it be your introduction to him. It doesn't make any sense without the context of his other writing.