/lit/ - Literature

Ma fackin boi

>>15875902
You never read those, and if you did you wouldn't enjoy them. That's my accurate judgement. You looked up famous novels that would give to "cred" and decided to parade them around in hopes others would admire how cultured you are.

Pic is my favorite author. He only wrote 2 books, and I didn't even read the other one.

>>15876059
8/10 bait

Tolstoy

>>15875902
Obviously great

>>15876053
Good although it sucks that his works feel unfinished

>>15876059
No idea who that is and I feel moderately offended by your insinuations. Probably a hack.

>>15876071
Kafka's best work are his short stories

>>15876071
>sucks that his works feel unfinished
If you haven't already then read his short stories, they're the only material which he actually put out during his lifetime, and therefore are finished unlike something like the trial or the castle, and in my so very 'umble and lowly opinion, are the best things he ever wrote.

>>15876065
>>15876071
Predictable.

>>15876087
>>15876088
I probably should have put a "some of" in there. I do enjoy his short stories, but a polished novel would have been top top tier.

>>15875902
My remaker in some parts after I deliberately destroyed myself a bit.

>>15875902
>>15876071
Guys. What books should I start with by Tolstoy? plz help

>>15876155
Anna Karenina is the best starter. Although The Death of Ivan is a short story and very good but not a masterpiece.

Start with Ivan if you want to dip your toe in the water, but you might as well go head first into Anna Karenina

>>15876105
read Invitation to a Beheading, it's like a Kafka novel but finished

>>15876171
>the death of ivan ilych is not a masterpiece
lol

>>15876512
Will never forget Nabokov mogging Orwell in the foreword to Beheading lol

>No doubt, there do exist certain stylistic links between this book and, say, my earlier stories (or my later Bend Sinister); but there are none between it and Le chateau or The Trial. Spiritual affinities have no place in my concept of literary criticism, but if I did have to choose a kindred soul, it would certainly be that great artist rather than G. H. Orwell or other popular purveyors of illustrated ideas and publicistic fiction.

>>15876957
Not compared to War & Peace ans Anna Karenina two of the most fleshed out works of literature

Stephenie Meyer 3>

Houellebecq

>>15877113
no shit, it's a short story not a 2 000 pages novel

>>15877631
So shit sts a short story snot a 2000 sage sovel

>>15875902
You already posted the objectively correct answer why is this a thread?

>>15877631
>Snit snit snit I only read chekhov snit snit snit

>>15875902
>>15876053
>>15876075
>>15876071
>>15877612
Based
>>15879074
Good storyteller, mediocre writer
>>15876113
Haven't read her yet, where to start?
>>15876059
>>15877332
Poor bait

>>15875902
I lament the fact that I do not know Russian so that I may read these in their original language.
>>15876059
Nice bait, you can't pretend to like Tolstoy.

>>15877031

Brutal

>>15879091
>mediocre writer
you don't know shit

>>15875902
I'm going to get called out as pleb on that so hard

>>15879103
>NOOOOOO YOU CANT INSULT MY FAVORITE WRITER LIKE THAT YOU JUST DONT UNDERSTAND HIM ONLY I DO IF YOU THINK OTHERWISE YOURE DUMB

sub 300 pages master race