/lit/ - Literature

>>10186856
Still better than....this:
https://www.shmoop.com/crime-and-punishment/

>Welcome to the novel whose title sounds like a cross between a game show and an episode of Law & Order: SVU...but is actually one of the most read, most studied, and most (in)famous works of literature in the world.
>No pressure, right?

>Actually, the best way to read Crime and Punishment is to not only feel all that pressure but to revel in it. This is a novel all about the vice grip of intense pressures: the pressures of society, of class, of psychology, of morality, of Christianity, and of what it means to be a human in the world.

>Easy? Ha. Rewarding? Oh, heck yes...if only because you'll get to say, "Oh, Crime and Punishment? Yeah, I've read that one."

>Which is yet another reason to devour this book like your little cousin's Halloween candy stash, in our opinion.
>Ain't no Russian novel like a controversial Russian novel...because you just know that a controversial Russian novel is extra delicious, messed up, and challenging.

>It's also extra psychological. Crime and Punishment—like most Dostoevsky joints—is incredibly fluid and open to a wide variety of interpretations.
>As Simon Karlinsky suggests in his essay "Dostoevsky as Rorschach Test," (cool essay title or coolest essay title?) how we interpret Crime and Punishment might be a reflection of our own psychology.

>I don't like Lovecraft and list criticisms as to why I don't like him
>All of a sudden I'm a piece of shit panzy ass queer who's opinion is shit

Is Lovecraft some sort of God? You guys are fucking autistic or something. I don't like Lovecraft and I don't see why you like him, and the only defense of Lovecraft I've seen in this thread is I'm a piece of shit who knows nothing. Thanks for discussing literature with me /lit/, it was great.