/lit/ - Literature

Who are your favorite depressing Christian authors?

>considered the best two novelists of all time
>both mediocre prose stylists in their native language and mediocre in translation

What's the best translations of these lil niggas

Why did they hate each other?

Why the fuck are these authors so highly regarded here? Is half of lit just self improvement soys that get hard to 19th century catholics and father figure Jungians? Why read 300 pages of purple prose that boil down to "boo hoo poor people" written by some defeatist royal snob with the mentality of a 15 year old?

Has literature a greater rivalry?

Unkempt beard. As a good writer you shouldn’t care one jot about your looks pleasing others.

any other books/authors who hit the same notes as these guys? mainly the good wholesome family values, love and meaning vs shallow forms of gratification, stuff like that

What did they think of each other?

Correct?

Who was the greater Christcuck?

Are there any good modern literary realists? That is, like authors like Tolstoy or Dostoevsky who sought to portray their characters hyper-realistically with significant attention to character development. It seems to have dwindled since the greats.

Which is better? Also, who in general is a better writer? Me personally, I think Anna Karenina alone mugs both Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. Thoughts?

Dosto has the squeaky voice physiognomy, Tolstoy has the deep voice physiognomy. You can't refute this.

The great debate

are these guys capable of writing a story without hamfisted proselytizing

Are there any other authors that have some sort of religious theme in their works? After reading Dosto or Tolstoy, I just really want to do something good, or do the right thing.

>McDuff for Dostoevsky
>Maude for Tolstoy
Is this correct?

However, he (doestevsky) thought that Tolstoy was blind to the gulf between the intelligentsia and the People, pouring scorn on Levin’s statement I am also one of the people from Book 8 of Anna Karenina: he’s the son of a Moscow nobleman of the upper middle level whose historian was Count L Tolstoy, critiquing also Tolstoy’s narrow range in focussing only on the upper levels of society in his work. He also attacked Tolstoy for not joining his own side of the debate on the Pan Slavic Movement and the Eastern Question. Tolstoy – like many others- thought the whole thing had been magnified by a hysterical press and could see no benefit for Russia in it. This was a grievous sin in Dostoevsky’s eyes, and placed Tolstoy on the side of Russia’s enemies. Those who were critical of the Pan Slavic movement contributed to the dissociation Dostoevsky saw as the major social ill of the day. He also railed against Tolstoy’s passivism, ranting that Tolstoy, in refusing to support the war against the Turks was thereby condoning the atrocities the Turks had committed against their Slavic populations. Dostoevsky could be pretty unpleasant in print, and had no compunctions against employing the lowest methods of gutter journalism to attack his opponents. In this case, he reported in graphic detail the atrocities committed by the Turks, and then more or less blamed them on Tolstoy.

Why do the most pretentious people always read these 2? Not to mention they cant even read Russian so they have to read English translations so they're not even reading the orginal works but different works by different authors' inspired by the orginal L O L what a fail

When did you realize that Tolstoy is the superior writer?

"dont be depressed and kys, anon, jesus saves"

fucking moralistic cunts

"don't be depressed and kys, anon, jesus saves"

So which one is better /lit/ ??