/lit/ - Literature

>used to be Ivan
>now closer to Alyosha
strange

>"M-maybe I can be in the next picture?"
>"Shut up and take the photo, Ivan"

>>21514984
Dostoevsky describes it well

>>21478133
Dostoyevsky was always good at picking up covers

>>21254971
That one's pretty nice, OP. I don't see what's your problem.

>>20914777

>>20871704

>>20276419
Will you read this?

>>19648468
>classical art forms aren't really evolving anymore
This is happening because communications and technologies have evolved beyond the mediums embraced by "classical" (what do you mean by this exactly?) art forms, in the same manner as genres like oral poetry disappeared after printing technologies appeared and gave rise to newer art forms like the novel. An art form does not exist independently of medium. Likewise the shape that the novel or poetry took in modernist times depended on the communications and technologies of that time. Ten centuries prior to the modernist era, most written material that existed was either theological or documentary/historical because most people couldn't even read. Communications affect the medium and art form.

In the XXIst century communication methods have changed so immensely, it is stupid to expect what we call "high culture" to immediately adapt. What you refer to as "pop culture", which has always existed and is really "folk art", is always quicker to adapt, because it is simple and non-referential in nature. Of course new forms of high art will arise, but being more complex high art takes more time to establish its ground. This has nothing to do with "artists aspiring for the future before but not anymore" (kek this is very idealistic), it has to do with the fact that "the world" has changed too much. If you know history of art and humanity you know that newer forms of art will appear.

>I feel that our ancestors aspired for a certain vision of the future and it became warped in the process,
"OUR" ancestors who? Who is we? My (Eastern European) ancestors were busy sacrificing fellow villagers to the local fire god up until the Xth century when they got forcibly evangelised. Then they were busy being fucked in the ass by the autocratic state, suffering famine and tyranny and serfdom. What vision for the future? How can you be so naive?

I know the entire thread was bait for this image, so here you go. The king of /lit/.

What are some of the best works of Russian literature?

>>18847232
It is a journey still. Properly assessing where I want to go and where I’ve been really gives me perspective on the limitations of what you can expect from the outside world, rest aside it is isolating. However, you escape the binary conceptions from the dreadfulness of hollow social life.

the GOAT

> not posting the canon cover

>>18541269

lest we forget, the classic

>>18479927
It was basically the 19th century Drake and Josh

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