/lit/ - Literature

Crime and Punishment.

Belladonna by Dasa Drndic if you want to feel repulsed

>>16698399
Try this
https://www.audible.com/pd/Child-Discipline-Audiobook/B07YLDZTCD?source_code=MSNGBWS0929169043&cvosrc=ppc.bing.&cvo_campaign=367588670&cvo_crid=77103379696863&Matchtype=e&msclkid=746b62d969a81439e5823d46d0438213&gclid=CIift96v4-wCFUHIfgodp7QBcQ&gclsrc=ds

>>16698399
I had a bad trip on LSD and accidentally discovered that I was the same person as everyone else which incidentally made me god, and that the world and everything in it had been created by me as an eternal distraction from the greatest pain of all: being an immortal, single being, alone for all of eternity.

At this realisation I caught myself in the mirror and my eyes looked exactly like the ones in that picture.

All one = Alone

>>16698399
Good. I hope you can appreciate art now, faggot.

>>16698399
Actually he didn't actually kill his actual son

Try everything by Dostoevsky, especially his five great novels, each of them has a scene or a moment that can be described with this look on the painting.

>>16698399
he shouldn't have killed his son

>>16698399
Read Garshin's short stories. He is actually the model for the son in this painting.
One of the greatest short stories I have ever read is from him. His stories are dark and mostly hopeless in this typical Russian fashion. He ended up killing himself.

>>16698399
Elie Wiesel's Night is the most dread I've ever felt while reading a book.

>>16700160
Yep.

>>16698399
A book cannot compliment a painting, you illiterate faggot. It's complement. Nice dubs though

>>16700185
what was the short story

>>16700092
damn bruh that all one = alone thing i realized also

also, when i had a mental breakdown kicking shit around house, the picture in the OP flashed in my mind
dunno what to make of it

>>16698399
Dostoevsky

>>16701089
I think it's that those eyes are a natural reaction to knowing, deep in your soul, that no, thing's don't work out in the end.

>>16700245
And the craziest part is that all that stuff definitely happened

>>16701043
The red flower. Another great one is the night. Honrable mention to the bears, four days and the signal.
He is fairly unkown, but if you can get your hands on his stories don't miss the chance.

>>16701439
It is indeed crazy to think that it's a true description of events.

>>16701439

>>16701486
Holy shit I love Jews now.

>>16701439
Maybe it did, but ot wasn't 6 million

It's crazy to think that in the middle of total war the Nazis would dedicate tons of precious resources to a complicated mass extermination program of people they had already imprisoned and rendered harmless. Just shows how evil they were, I guess.

ivan the terrible by tolstoj (the other one)

>>16698399
Rogozhin's eyes have the same effect throughout The Idiot

>>16701278
i think its the look you have when you fuck up beyond redemption and know it.
i dont think it happens to everyone at any point in their lives

>>16701520
Nobody claimed the Nazis were smart or master strategists

>>16701958
It seems like a lot of the deaths would be caused by Allied bombings of supply lines which were probably already poorly supplied due to the strain of war; but knowing how evil and stupid the Nazis were, it's perfectly understandable that instead of focusing on fighting, they'd put their efforts into executing as many harmless prisoners as possible. It's hard to believe such demons ever walked the earth.

>>16701981
you 1st world niggas are really bluepilled arent you
in the name of greater understanding, stop demonizing nazis

>>16702028

>>16702041
very well, sir
you win this one
i shall descend into a pit of chaos now and reorder my understanding of my surroundings
godspeed

>>16700092
I've heard this idea many times. Where does it come from?

>>16701520
Yeah, if the nazis wanted to exterminate the imprisoned jews, why didn't they just starve the jews to death?

>>16702135
That would have been too cruel for the most evil mass murderers to ever exist.

>>16700120
>five
>Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, The Brothers Karamazov, ????
What is the fifth?

>>16702173
He probably just meant Notes.

>>16701548
I always imagine this painting after Myshkin is shown Nastassya's body. This looks like the face of a man who will be driven insane by his grief.

>>16702179
That's the only one I haven't read yet. No time to finish it with my fucking classes. Is there really a moment like that in Notes?

>>16702186
I'm afraid I haven't read it either. This is /lit/ after all.

>>16702135
Many of them did starve to death
>>16702186
>>16702197
No there isn't really a moment like that in Notes, I just recently read it last week. I still highly recommend it though.

>>16702186
>>16702197
Its just a 150 pages or so. I think the whole book is a moment like that kek.

>>16702186
Kind of towards the end. Not as intense as his other works though, more of a slow, bitter, burn. It’s very short though, should be able to finish it rather quickly anon, even with classes

>>16702135
Uhh they did do that

>>16702220
When you send food and an allied plane blows up the transport does that count as starving someone?

>>16702129

Solipsism + pessimism, maybe?

>>16701486
What do these pictures of jews have to do with anything?

>>16702129
>>16702284
It comes from brushing shoulders with the real essence of life. Mystics and the like have had this understanding for millennia.

>>16702935
nothing, just your usual poltard trying to spark controversy with insipid antisemitism

>>16698399

I also love this picture. But there's a gif that gets posted one in a while with his face as a representation of "fear" and I have to rant about it. I don't think his expression is that of fear at all. In fact, I think what's so disturbing about the picture is that he is superficially expressing a kind of warped comforting. But it is so warped, given the context, that the picture cannot convey an emotion at all. All it can convey is that he is in fact insane, and so he is not even a candidate of our understanding in emotional terms.

>>16702129
I don't think its the origin, but it reminds me of Wahdat al-Wujud from Sufi Islam.