/lit/ - Literature

please help me /lit/, i can't read fiction (well, lengthy fiction) ever since i've finished all of dostoevsky
tried three tolstoy books, dropped all of them, i really want to read but absolutely everything bores me and frustrates me
what i liked about dostoevsky is the diversity of dark/mystical thematics, the abundance of charismatic characters and interpersonal relationships, and of course the amount of emotions, can anybody advise a similar book? the longer the better
thanks in advance

i dont usually get off to books but i found demons/the brothers karamazov incredibly erotic in some weird subtextual sadomasochistic way, also the raw youth
>dat submissiveness/self-humiliation/adoration kink
got to the night/ivan tsarevich chapters in demons and first meeting with Smerdyakov chapter in TBK and i was fucking sold

>>4702230
theres actually a LOT of erotic passages there

>>4704393
>Lord of the Flies
now thats unusual
what part specifically

>don't have a lot of money
>only apply to expense shitty liberal arts schools

STEM master race reporting in

Why are all the best writers STEMfags?

1. How come the best writers (like Tolstoy, Céline, Jünger, etc.) are more often than not conservatives, reactionaries or even fascist?

2. How come the same phenomena is not seen in other art forms such as cinema and painting?

3. How is a leftist supposed to fill his library when most books contradict his political views? On top of my head, the only authors I can think of that don't are Camus and Orwell.

How come this filth is making so much money?
And how come this filth is mostly catering to women?

I read Demons years ago but it still bugs me. Not the book itself, but my reaction to it: the whole thing about Stavrogin's crime felt so damn disproportional. Have all these years of 4chan left me jaded or was Dostoevsky overreacting?

What does /lit/ think of Chekhov? Would you recommend his short stories or plays? Any particular works you would recommend? I am trying to give him a shot but I think he might just not be for me

Who is the best translator of Dostoevsky? Crime and Punishment, specifically.

>>4174345
You think you have problems?

I only have a teeny tiny bit of OCD and I can't properly read fucking ANYTHING because I have to read FUCKING EVERYTHING twice and look at the page numbers A MILLION times when I turn pages. That only among others.

Especially annoying when I'm trying to finish paragraphs or chapters. There it gets really bad.
I'm stuck on the same page for minutes - and then my jaw gets stiff because I tend to move my lips the more nervous I get. And then I also loose my concentration and have to start the sentences again, even though sometimes I'm only stuck on parts of sentences.

And what's the stuff I want to read?
Stuff like Dostoyevski and Tolstoi!

Do you know how much of an effort it is to read shit like that this way?
Do you know how much of an asspain it is everytime I open a book and realize I'm not getting anywhere over 25 pages in HALF A FUCKING HOUR?
Do you know how fucking annoying it is to even realize what kind of condition it is but to be absolutely unable to change it?

So FUCK YOU and your whiny reading comprehension bullshit. Be lucky you're not dealing with this shit instead.

What are the best translators for Dostoevsky? Are they different for different books?

>>4104229

totally agree. here's another author who's pretty unoriginal and uninteresting.

Hey lit

Do you know where I can find those copy pasta 'if only i voted ron paul' green text stories? This should count as literature.

Is crime and punishment really that good?

How is it compared to his other novels?

which notes from underground printing do you recommend? there's a fucking thousand of them.

>The Idiot
>The Brothers Karamazov
>Crime and Punishment

Which book did you enjoy the most? Why?

Is it wrong to try to abandon cynicism? Pic not really all that related

Who is your favourite author?
>Fyodor Doestovsky

Which of their works have you read?
>Crime and Punishment
>The Brothers Karamazov
>Notes From the Underground
>The Idiiot

Why do you love them so?
"There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky"
― Kurt Vonnegut

Whom would you reccomend them to?
>Everyone should read Doestovsky

my face when inventing literary polyphony

>>3636688
>>3636651
new lit may-may?

Dostoevsky thread

>>3522022

I do not care for Tolstoy

>as long as I have my basement corner to become spiteful and bitter and reflect on life before I get sick and die i'm okay

>>3502248

What did you say to me punk?