/lit/ - Literature

>>14578184
...friendship

>>14464660
>I pretty much exclusively for entertainment, so I mostly read science fiction, fantasy and romance. I've purchased a large quantity of superhero prose novels for Christmas. I haven't touched anything related to philosophy since college.
>I'm currently writing a fantasy romance novel about a tsundere warrior princess and an awkward but loveable knight. The princess is based on various crushes I've had over the years and the knight is an idealized version of myself.
>I was sexually abused by my dad until I was 16 and I was able to move to another state with my mom. Because of this, I have a deep fear of sex and sexuality, which is why the novel is extremely juvenile. The characters just kiss/blush/hold hands, and nothing even approaching sex is even hinted at.

I.. I'm sorry anon.

>‘Father, when my grave is filled up crumble a piece of bread on it so that the sparrows may fly down; I shall hear and it will cheer me up not to be lying alone.’

What is it about Dostoevsky that is so aesthetic despite his prose being lackluster? It’s like he knows the exact symbols and images that are the most sublime and aesthetically moving; the horse murder in Crime and Punishment, The Grand Inquisitor in TBK and the quote above in TBK, it just feels so perfect and impeccable.