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Dostoevsky was a major influence on Kafka, the most blatant was Crime and Punishment’s influence on The Trial. There is one scene in C&P where Raskolnikov is summoned to the police station and he gets there and they say you’re late you were supposed to be here three hours ago, but he just got the summon fifteen minutes ago. Dostoevsky’s melodrama was like Lynch’s technique in Twin Peaks, it’s intended to feel uncanny, bizarre and alienating my making things *too* dramatic and emotional at inappropriate moments. Here is Lynch using a light tough and achieving a Dostoevskyian effect
https://youtu.be/FcsNhIozEPo

Twin Peaks uses scenes and acting vaguely reminiscent of melodrama but does them “off” on purpose just like Dostoevsky did with with novelistic melodrama using tropes from western novels but doing them bizarre and off to achieve an effect. Kafka took this technique even further just like Lynch does with with many of his films. Here is a stronger touch achieving a Kafkaesque effect
https://youtu.be/JamnCWXNsPs

Nabokov was filtered by this, despite being a good aesthete. It just looked like tacky artistry him because he didn’t grasp the point

Anna Karenina. War and Peace. Both feature multiple, highly realistic romances and marriages.

Nietzsche is a wit and Scruton is the middest of mids