/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.22402725]

>Dostoevsky wanted to make a sequel of pic related

How do you imagine it would be like?

[Anonymous No.22402727]

>>22402725
alyosha gets corrupted

[Anonymous No.22402731]

>>22402727
Alyosha gets raped by father zosima

[Anonymous No.22402733]

>>22402731
no, wtf

[Anonymous No.22402734]

>>22402725
there was nothing really left to say after this t bh desu peak lit

[Anonymous No.22402740]

>>22402734
Peak lit for mid wit

[Anonymous No.22402743]

>>22402740
What's your favorite novel?

[Anonymous No.22402745]

>>22402740
you got filtered

[Anonymous No.22402750]

>>22402740
Imagine being this soulless

[Anonymous No.22402937]

>>22402725
If you are alluding to Dostoevsky’s worst novels, then, indeed, I dislike intensely The Brothers Karamazov and the ghastly Crime and Punishment rigamarole. No, I do not object to soul-searching and self-revelation, but in those books the soul, and the sins, and the sentimentality, and the journalese, hardly warrant the tedious and muddled search. Dostoyevsky’s lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity – all this is difficult to admire. I do not like this trick his characters have of ”sinning their way to Jesus” or, as a Russian author, Ivan Bunin, put it more bluntly, ”spilling Jesus all over the place." Crime and Punishment’s plot did not seem as incredibly banal in 1866 when the book was written as it does now when noble prostitutes are apt to be received a little cynically by experienced readers. Dostoyevsky never really got over the influence which the European mystery novel and the sentimental novel made upon him. The sentimental influence implied that kind of conflict he liked—placing virtuous people in pathetic situations and then extracting from these situations the last ounce of pathos. Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoevsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist. He was a prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. I admit that some of his scenes, some of his tremendous farcical rows are extraordinarily amusing. But his sensitive murderers and soulful prostitutes are not to be endured for one moment—by this reader anyway. Dostoyevsky seems to have been chosen by the destiny of Russian letters to become Russia’s greatest playwright, but he took the wrong turning and wrote novels.

[Anonymous No.22402941]

>>22402937
nabokov pls go

[Anonymous No.22402951]

>>22402937
nabokov pls stay

[Anonymous No.22402965]

>>22402951
Dosto is essentially sadomasochistic, he loves dwelling on characters who revel in how depraved they are, but who also prostrate themselves in the just punishment or humiliation of their depravity. Again, sensitive murderers and soulful prostitutes imply the exact situation he adored, all the violence and sexual intrigue he desired so much, but with the approval of his super ego since they ritualistically degrade themselves in a kind of spiritual fetishistic pleasure in confessing, being punished, and then being "redeemed". It's lurid and partakes of a sick kind of gratification in self flagellation.

[Anonymous No.22402985]

>>22402965
You have schizophrenia my man.

[Anonymous No.22403002]

>>22402985
Every single day I go on /lit/ catalogue there are multiple Dosto threads, I know I must do my duty

[Anonymous No.22403007]

>>22403002

[Anonymous No.22403012]

>>22402725
Why are Dostoyevsky threads always just arguing about translations or battlegrounds for christers?

[Anonymous No.22403016]

>>22403012
why are you upset tho?

[Anonymous No.22403019]

>>22403007
/lit/ needs to read another author

[Anonymous No.22403021]

>>22403019
Schizophrenic seethe.

[Anonymous No.22403028]

>>22403012
Dosto is peak cult mindset. The cult takes precedence over reality.

[Anonymous No.22403035]

>>22403028
schizophrenic summerfags apparently drawn to dostoevsky threads like flies

[Anonymous No.22403064]

>>22403035
>If you only use this jpg this summer, you must only have been coming here this summer
Proving once again the average IQ on /lit/ is double digits.

[Anonymous No.22403067]

>>22403064
Schizophrenic cope.

[Anonymous No.22403076]

>>22403067
Use your brain and come up with something original. You are beyond cringe at this point.

[Anonymous No.22403077]

>>22403076
You taking meds buddy? You sound unhinged and mentally unwell.

[Anonymous No.22403081]

>>22403077
Yawn

[Anonymous No.22403082]

>>22403081
Nice meme, schizo. You get that from Facebook? KEK

[Anonymous No.22403093]

>>22403082
>A quote with a picture has to be from facebook
You're not even smart enough to use cliches properly

[Anonymous No.22403095]

>>22403093
Lol you fucking fag you unironically did get it on facebook didn't you

[Anonymous No.22403113]

>>22403095
Keep trying kid, you'll figure out this banter thing eventually.

[Anonymous No.22403116]

>>22403113
fucking kek @ u

[Anonymous No.22403126]

>>22403116
Weak as hell man, never let it show you're that rattled

[Anonymous No.22403129]

>>22403126
is this a comeback from the boomer academy of posting? kek @ u

[Anonymous No.22403208]

>>22402731
This is a leftist btw

[Anonymous No.22403222]

>>22402937
>pre-Freudian complexes
Quite the man of science this Nabokov!