/lit/ - Literature

Tolstoy is massively overrated. I read him in original, and it's shit. Dostoevsky is the only true classical Russian writer, perhaps the only true classical writer at all.

Tolstoy's works are only interesting in context of development of literature, to see how humanity has progressed in terms of writing. Much like Shakespeare - it's overrated garbage otherwise. If someone says they like Shakespeare - they are literary plebs, or liars, or plebs who want to appear 'sophisticated', but ofcourse fail, because Shakespeare is shit. Same goes for Tolstoy. Cheers.