/lit/ - Literature

>>22589817
Nabokov was a gooner.

:D

>>22433635
Dead Souls, Oblomov and Fathers & Sons get discussed on occasion. I have a fondness for Gogol.

>It is not necessary to say much about this tailor; but, as it is the custom to have the character of each personage in a novel clearly defined, there is no help for it, so here is Petrovitch the tailor.
>...As we have mentioned his wife, it will be necessary to say a word or two about her. Unfortunately, little is known of her beyond the fact that Petrovitch has a wife, who wears a cap and a dress...

>>22295496
Gaddis is more middle era, he was niche before the NYRB reissue and most Gaddis threads were people complaining about how expensive his books were. There are loads of authors/books we talked about which were not pomo doorstoppers, Kafka, Beckett, Calvino, Nabokov, the Russians, early japanese modernists, the beats, magical realism, Hesse, and loads more all had regular threads.

The Russians threads were always fun threads before they got reduced to Dostoyevsky.

is the Bartlett translation good? i fucking hate P&V

>>21332690
Been reading TBK the entire and I’m just gonna be doing exactly that. Currently in Father Zosmia’s second sermon (circa page 360+)

What modern literature should I read if I'm mostly used to classic literature. Most stuff I encounter is either pseud self-help books or fucking Sally Rooney. I especially like classic Russian and Japanese literature and stuff written by cynical New Yorkers

>>20846084
Definitely Dostoevsky could be a good start, the only thing about Tolstoy is that his books can be very long and tedious if you don't understand the russian culture at the time he was writing. I'd start with Pushkin or Gogol before Tolstoy, even though Tolstoy is my personal favorite

>>20804541
>nobody posted Щoыaк version

I will post it, because its silly and makes me laugh. Especially Tolstoy.

>>20568044
Does that mean I will also get a cute Kitty waifu?

>>20121879

>>19990586
gogol, unironically

Have zoomers (and the people preying off them) misinterpreted the word of the old philosophers?

>>19872780
read other russian authors, retard

>>19661915

>>18515211
any author from this chart.