/lit/ - Literature

>>15684713
Tolstoy vs Dostoevsky anon ?

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>>15684713
How did Anna K make you a better person?

>>15684713
>>15684982
I would also like to know.

crime and punishment

>>15684783
Dostoevsky - artist of the abyss and heights, a man who saw hell, an astronaut, angelically pure, weightless. his "diary" contains merciless mercy, brought to the cold war.

Tolstoy - artist of earthiness, he stands firmly on his feet, he's the prince with peasant thinking. homer of 1812. bearded (a)theistic lu(ci)ther. his "confession" struck with lightning in the body of the tsarist leviathan.

Don quixote

>>15684713
I and thou

>>15684982
>>15685178
I would also like to know. So far I'm calling that OP is full of shit.

>>15684982
Not OP, but it's full of realistic examples of how not to act

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>>15687419
>>15685178
AK is the most soulful and authentic book ever written. You get to understand and empathise with every character in a more intimate way than even they themselves can. It teaches you to love and be forgiving.

>>15684783
The real question is Tolstoy vs Pushkin. Dosto is not on the same level.

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>>15687465
Lermontov

>>15687474
this is coming in the mail. what am i in for?

>>15687474
>self-improvement books written by guys that don't have a steady marriage and 3+ kids

>>15687490
lmfao people still buying ebooks from grifters huh

>>15687474
take this L lmfao

Moby Dick and Brothers Karamazov

>lmfao

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>>15688530
That quote by that satanic bitch eliminated all my interest in the book.

>>15684770
haha funny!

>>15684713
De Sade books

>>15684713
Crime and Punishment
Musashi
New Testament

Meme Kampf

>>15688746
Why’s that?

>>15689114
i was kidding lol
that guy was a psycopath

>>15688936
This but unironically

>>15688530
maybe if you think live love laugh looks good on your wall and/or tattooed on you

>>15688936
>>15689291
best translation?

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>>15685536
I've been reading his short stories. I planned to read them for a flavour of Tolstoy and then move onto his longer works (want to read Anna Kareina and W&P at some point). How do works like AK and W&P compare to The Death of Ivan Ilych (and its collection of short stories).

As keen as I am, I'm not sure I want to marathon 2500 pages of Tolstoy. I'd grow weary. I like something light in the mix too.

why is 18th and 19th russian lit so fucking good bros?

>>15687474
>self-help American authors
Just end your life, honestly.

>>15687463
based

>>15687465
I've only read Dosto and a few short Checkov stories. What puts Tolstoy and Pushkin above them ?

>>15684713
Book of Disquiet

>>15685420
same here.

>>15687382
It triggered a profound change in me, but I can't say whether it was for the better. Re-reading it in spanish to find out.

>>15684713
Anna Karenina is genuinely one of the best pieces of feminist literature while also giving extraordinary insight into the human condition itself. The feminist part isn't even necessary to enjoy the text as Levin's story is so invigorating and joyful. One of my favourite books.

>>15684713
All of Plato. I should live a kinder and gentler life as in accordance with the justice of the soul.

>>15695420
>Levin and Kitty at the dinner table

>>15695458
>Levin and Kitty on the porch at the end

>>15687463

I had trouble empathizing with Anna. What does that say about me?

>>15695526
what did you have trouble with?

>>15695555

All of her actions appear to me primarily selfish in nature.

The Harry Potter series

>>15695623
As opposed to her husband, whom she was trying to leave? And Vronsky who loves her merely for selfish/lustful reasons?
Anna IS selfish and this is what leads to her doom but she cannot escape this nature. Levin struggles with this same thing problem: he cannot find meaning outside of his subjective - it isn't until the end during his Kierkegaard monologue that even though he cannot 'reason' meaning outside himself it is necessary all the same (just as Tolstoy experienced in his own life).

>>15695623
What about Vronsky, Alexis and Levin? Specifically Vronsky do you think his actions were primarily selfish? >>15695685
It's like this anon said but consider instead of nature her societal position. Compared to Vronsky who committed the same immoral act how well can she resume her old life or pursue anything else she wants compared to him?

>>15691811
just pick whatever you can buy and re-read paragrahps since most translations are shit. Unironically a good book, readed it in spanish and its worth it

Unironically the Bible
new testament only

>>15695512
The whole time reading the book I had the impression that Levin is such a child with barely any self regulation. Maybe I'm just cynical and bitter though. Tell me /lit/, is Levin as naive and overemotional as I thought, or are his responses to the given situations authentic and normal human condition?

>>15696561
He is indeed a bit infantile, as far as I remember that was explicitly pointed out by Tolstoy himself throughout the book. But, on the other hand, that is also what makes him more sincere, as opposed to Anna.

>>15696561
He is so serious about his life and actions that he becomes infantile and petty. But then, by the end he accepts his own ignorance as a part of who he his. Becoming a more well rounded person.

>>15691863
They were living under the Tsar, that's why.

>>15684713