/lit/ - Literature

>Saint Petersburg, Russia, 15 August 2018
>In a release promulgated early this morning by the office of the Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga, Vladimir Kotlyarov, it has been announced that the "documents and attestations have been filed with Moscow to begin to the process of glorifying (better know in the west as canonization, though that term is limited to Catholicism) writer Fyodor Dostoevsky.
>Long highly respected by Eastern Orthodox believers for his paeans to the power of faith in works such as The Brothers Karamazov, calls for his glorification have intensified following a recent supposed miracle in Saint Petersburg. A teenage student, Vasilisa Nesterova, assigned Dostoevsky's 1868 novel The Idiot in a class was deeply affected by the description of epilepsy, which she also suffered from. Informed by her instructor that the writer was also stricken by the disease, Nesterova studied Dostoevsky's biography and began to feel "a sublime connection" with the author.
>Eventually, Nesterova placed a rose at Dostoevsky's grave and said a short prayer there "that my seizures cease and that Dostoevsky be freed from his earthly troubles, included his seizures, in heaven." She also addressed the dead author directly in the prayer, asking him to advocate for her and all epileptics to God. She claims that she has now gone a longer span than ever before without a seizure, despite no changes in her physical condition or regime of medications. Nesterova posted about her experience on Russian social media after several months, when she "began to become convinced a miracle had taken place."
>This incident, coupled with Dostoevky's novel Demons, which some scholars claim predicted "Lenin, Stalin, the Troika, and the KGB" form the basis of the case for glorification. Referring to Demons, the release from the Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga states: "according to his wife, Dostoevsky wrote key sections of the novel after suffering a severe fit, specifically those parts which display a specific foreknowledge of Stalinism in form of Shigalevism. We hold this to be an instance of divine inspiration."
>Though the final decision will be made by the Church headquarters in Moscow, the high rank of Metropolitan Vladimir and public pressure make the glorification highly likely to be approved. Some critics and scholars both in an outside Russia fear this outcome as it would make negative statements and depictions of the author sacrilegious.

>It's nonsense, there will be no deception in a free marriage! That is only the natural consequence of a legal marriage, so to say, its corrective, a protest. So that indeed it's not humiliating... and if I ever, to suppose an absurdity, were to be legally married, I should be positively glad of it. I should say to my wife: 'My dear, hitherto I have loved you, now I respect you, for you've shown you can protest!' You laugh! That's because you are of incapable of getting away from prejudices. Confound it all! I understand now where the unpleasantness is of being deceived in a legal marriage, but it's simply a despicable consequence of a despicable position in which both are humiliated. When the deception is open, as in a free marriage, then it does not exist, it's unthinkable. Your wife will only prove how she respects you by considering you incapable of opposing her happiness and avenging yourself on her for her new husband. Damn it all! I sometimes dream if I were to be married, pfoo! I mean if I were to marry, legally or not, it's just the same, I should present my wife with a lover if she had not found one for herself. 'My dear,' I should say, 'I love you, but even more than that I desire you to respect me. See!' Am I not right?"

What did he mean by this?

Please rec. best English translation for the following books:

Notes from the Underground
Crime and Punishment
The Idiot
The Brothers Karamazov

Anyone else a big fan of Dostoyevsky despite being deeply unimpressed by his theology?

>Writers who are actually good people

>inb4 muh jews, he fought for their rights and was aware of his own bigotry

Why are russians so much better at writing than everyone else god damn

All this year I've been reading the Russians. Starting with Dostoevsky and moving to Tolstoy. This is what writing should be, does anyone else agree.

(Just started war&peace this morning, can't put it down. whyis tolstoy so based.)

>Protagonist is an idiot
>Author is an idiot also

How different would the world of literature, or the world for that matter, be if Dostoyevsky was actually executed before writing his seminal works?