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10126926 No.10126926 [Reply] [Original]

Why is it that Russians are endowed with so much heart and soul, which allows them to write such passionate stories, whereas Am*ricans are not?

>> No.10126937

Is there any country with more overrated literature than the Russians?

>> No.10126938

>>10126937
Oui

>> No.10126942

>>10126937
USA desu

>> No.10126962

>>10126937
America

>> No.10127011

>>10126938
This, to no end.

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>>10126926

>> No.10127864

>>10126926
>being this reductive

>> No.10127881

>>10126926
Russia has a much longer history to work with. More history, more blood and pain to work with. The U.S. hasn't had the time to produce a Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Blok, whoever.

>> No.10127882

>>10126938
>>10127011
fpbp

>> No.10128041
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>>10126926
hey man, there are tons of good americans
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Singer
Abraham Cahan
Anzia Yezierska
Elie Wiesel
Sholem Aleichem
Mary Antin

Sure they have their Ayn Rands but you just have to dig a little deeper to find the gold

>> No.10128621

>>10126926
oh yeah. gonna re-read Gorky's "My Childhood", particularly the parts where the adults would get drunk and beat the living shit out of their children because the kids were full of sin, or something.

so much heart!

>> No.10128975

>>10128621
I don't think you know what the word passionate means. You seem to think that it has some inherently good or warm connotation.
I know you're trying to be sarcastic for laughs but what you just described is an extremely passionate scene. So in providing that example that example you actually supported OP's point.

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>>10128041
>All those names
*Cлaвьcя, Oтeчecтвo нaшe cвoбoднoe! Starts playing*

>> No.10129002

>>10128041
Could have been good bait if you hadn't included that last sentence

>> No.10129113

>>10126937
Greece

>> No.10129375

>>10127881
> Russia has a much longer history to work with.

You should probably know that Russian literature (in modern sense) only started to exist in 18th century, and only achieved independence and greatness in the beginning of the 19th century, largely because of Alexander Pushkin who realized it's easier to give noble girls the D if they are wet from your poems, and started twisting his tongue to make those poems cool.

(lol jk, you couldn't perform sexual acts on noble woman who were not your wife or mistress, so he had to praise his beloved, fuck some Mary later, then return to throw bouquets at Unearthly Chosen One)