/lit/ - Literature

ITT: Authors who had a hard life.

>Notes from Underground
>White Nights
>Crime and Punishment
>The Brothers Karamazov
how does he keep doing it? is there a more "literally me" author?

Is he underrated or overrated?

What is the superior English translation for Dostoevsky? I've flipped through a couple, Garnett, P&V, Penguin's McDuff, and I was surprised with how fundamentally different they are in composition.

I've been reading Garnett's translation of Brothers K., it gets a ton of shit by other translators trying to shill their own translations, but it does the job, reads like a Victorian Dickensian novel, and it's how most historical literary figures were exposed to Dosto.

However, I'm open to opinions, also do we have an info graphic for Ruskie lit in general?

Behold! A soap opera writer

*destroys nihilists before they had barely begun*

*destroys nihilists, materialists, and atheists in the span of a few novels*

>no one has posted pic related yet
Leave your economic critiques aside, for it is the social and metaphysical ills of communism (and the thought that inherently follows it) that are far more dangerous.

When will they learn?

>>11809495
*blocks your path*

*defeats nihilists and socialists in the span of a few novels*
nothing personnel commies..

>>11793824
> "even if someone were to prove to me that the truth lay outside Christ, I should choose to remain with Christ rather than with the truth."

Behold, a soap opera writer

Out of nowhere, Russia blasted onto the literary stage with Pushkin in the early 1800s. There followed a miraculous multitude of brilliant novelists, dramatists and poets with a unique vision, perspective, philosophic acumen and psychological intensity.

For 100 or so years the torch of Russian writing blinded like the noonday sun.

Then it stopped.

While Britain and France continue to produce great writers, Russia has all but vanished from the realm of remarkable writing.

WHAT HAPPENED?????

I can't think of any decent Russian writer after Solzhenitsyn.

>>11332150
>be me
>unworthy follower of Christ
>co-worker asks "What is up?"
>I reply "Suffering"
He said I was weird and depressing. God have mercy on his soul

>>11332587
Why didn't we listen we warned us?

>Survive.

Some people on this board sometimes argue/meme that Dante wrote fanfiction but nobody ever mentions Dostoevsky's pitiful attempts at portraying realism by randomly inserting scenes and objects from his real life. Explain yourselves. How does one not get tired of these constant amateurish references, these literary equivalents of "ya dude do you remember that movie from the 80s?"

Why are so many male authors so terrible at writing female characters? pic related

>>10869358
Si senor, I am ready. Now, Vamanos! We need the padre's holy relics.