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Why is he so overrated by younger people? I really like his work but what makes tbe youth love this man so much instead of someone like Tolstoy or Chekhov?

>>14778987
THE more sex partners a woman has the less likely she will be of finding a satisfying relationship also only about 40% of men in the whole world got to breed

ITT: Middlebrow writers

What is the best TBK translation?
>inb4 learn Russian
I've heard good things about the McDuff translation, but people have said the P&V version is good also.

Does anyone else think Fyodor was super cute?

>Subjected to interrogation, mock execution, deportation to Siberia, forced military service and ongoing censorship after his release by Russian conservatives*
>Spends the latter half of his life vigorously defending their ideals

WTF Dosto? Was it Stockholm syndrome? I love his works, and I actually agree with him on much, but I can't see how a man so abused by his state could go on venerating it.
*by which I mean supporters of the Tsar, the Orthodox Church, the Russian imperial status quo in general

Dostoevsky!

Do Russians like their great authors for the same reasons they're admired abroad?

Which Dostoevsky book do I read next. Both sound equally as good.

Which one is more heavy handed in philosophy? I'm more into that type of Dosto, like in TBK.

I love Dostoevsky for lots of reasons, and I'm sure a good number of people have them in common. He was incredible at seeing things from different perspectives and presenting fair arguments, and the very best example of this is The Grand Inquisitor parable. In my opinion, there has never been a more scathing argument against religion or a more beautiful defense of it, and it's all within those two dozen pages. Even as an atheist I can't help but be in love with some of the religious characters he creates and the message behind them, like an evident preference for Alyosha's active love over Ivan's passive, intellectual love.
He writes with a kind of idealism that bleeds through all of his works, even the less philosophical or philosophical works like many of his short stories, all with the unifying theme of love rather than anything else. He doesn't try to use any cheap tricks to sway you over to his side, either. He outright tells you that his faith is exactly that—faith. It's not meant to be understood in any intellectual capacity, it's meant to be leapt into and experienced. Nor does he try to weasel out of the potential negatives of faith, or, more exactly, the negatives of a Christ-like being in the world. There are far more reasons, like his ability to probe the darkest and brightest corners of the mind, creating a mirror through which we view ourselves, or the cast of rich secondary characters and a world, too.

>>7893261

I agree with this, there are as many different driving forces as there are people.

What do you think of the works of this beautiful man? What are your favorites?