/lit/ - Literature

>I feel like shit because I cant create nothing
Maybe creative work is not your thing, then?

>recently found out that people can unironically visualize what they read as if they were watching a movie
>apparently I have aphantasia and that makes me an NPC
>have read extensively throughout my life and enjoyed books without concerning myself with trifle nonsense such as whether or not I can vividly picture the main character
>still feel like I'm missing out

>The book was bad because I didn't like the characters

>Oh my GOD I just LOVE to read!
>I LOVE Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Rupi Kaur!

>>15092401
holy cringe

> After defending autocracy, serfdom, and the Orthodox Church in his book Selected Passages from Correspondence with his Friends (1847), Gogol came under attack from his former patron Vissarion Belinsky.

So he was for the enslavement of his own people...?

>>15006518
story?

Dostoevsky was a big liberal before his 1849 exile. When he was released in 1854 he clearly stopped doing dissident activity, is it because of being scared or because he agreed with the new more liberal tsar (Alexander II)?

In the 1820s during Pushkin’s time only 3% of the population could sign their first name in the russian empire