/lit/ - Literature

Ohoho, how will atheists ever recover?

Did the character of Nikolai Stavrogin forever BTFO Nietzsche and Stirner?

>>10055253
>not even a single creature with horns and a tail

>tfw boner during Tikhon chapter
I think it was an inappropriate reaction after 600 pages of onslaught on nihilism

>>9761861
How the fuck does one read this? It is even worse to slog through that Brothers Karamazov. I thinkk it's all the fucking retarded russian names. It's like I read the page and have no idea what the fuck I just read about.

>>9691035

>600 pages in
>Not a single demon has appeared, let alone several

I will sue.

I've finished reading demons yesterday but i cannot understand Stavrogin. at first I've thought that he's a "pure" nihilist, without being spooked like kirillov or pyotr, that he was doing everything ranging from self degradation to commiting heinous deeds just to push his limits and to stop the boredom, and at the end of the novel killing himself because of the emptiness and meaninglessness in his life.
But after reading "At Tikhon's" he seems to feel guilt after driving the little girl to suicide, a need to repent and to find forgiveness, yet he still acts like a cunt, screwing lisa, ignoring the obvious threats to his wife or shatov and so on. can someone help me understand this man? Is he a mix of raskolnikov and Svidrigailov?
also
>jesus will forgive you the rape of an innocent child if you forgive yourself, heh, fuck me, he'll forgive you even if you don't
what did Tikhon mean by this?

Call me a pleb, but I'm about 200 pages in and I have to ask...are the remaining ~600 worth reading?
I'm a big JPB fanboy (call me a pleb again if you wish), and I picked it up after he described it as an exhibition of the ethos which eventually led to the Bolshevik Revolution. But so far it's been almost entirely expository material about minor squabbles amongst Russian high society...
Basically it's been fucking boring so far.
Does it ever actually "pick up"? I'm not asking for car crashes or sword fights or anything, but just some conflict that is actually interesting.

>>9544770
>Dosto was a commy,
My god, such ignorance!

Read Demons by Dostoevsky. It's all about how progressivism destroys society and the importance of christian values and tradition.

Very good book!

Was Nikolai the one who was possessed by the Demons in Matthew 8:28-34?

Im gonna start reading Dostoevskys Demons. What Im in for? Will it gave me as much feels as Brothers Karamazov did?

Also Dostoevsky Thread. Talk about his work.

Hey lit, just wanted to say thank you.

You have introduced me into the world of reading. I have found something that I have been missing in my life and have found great happiness through books suggested on this board.

You probably don't hear this enough but thank you for existing and I hope more plebs like me get introduced into the world of reading through this board.

Currently reading Demons.

Share your currently reading, and if any other plebs are like me.

What did he mean by this, /lit/? Is it that every major person involved in shaping the political and ideological landscape is insane?

How did he predict the next 100 years in revolutionary politics, from Leninist vanguardism to Gramsciam cultural hegemony?

Was he a wizard?

Is this worth reading?
I like Notes From Underground and love Crime and Punishment

No one ever talks about this book

wtf I hate liberals now

>>8895986
What's the name of the painting on the cover of demons?

Going to read this, what am I in for? I read that it's "one of humanities finest achivements". I read C&P and its probably my favorite novel ever

>>8612940
Read Demons instead

Chapter 2, I'm bored.

Worth struggling through?

What does /lit/ think about this one?
I loved Crime and Punishment even though I'm generally a lazy ass fucker when it comes to long books. Is this one worth it as well?

>>8311584