/lit/ - Literature

>>17674076
>What technique is this?
Russian literature.
Now go and read more

>>17674076
Tha...that...that image is moving...O_O

>>17674083
ok, russian literature is not a technique.

The power of good literature.

Now delete your insipid frog collection

>>17674090
It is.

>>17674093
>>17674099
oh my god, if you don't know the answer just skip the question.

>>17674117
Ok, the name of the technique is Tolstoyism or Tolstoyan movement

>>17674146
you tricked me. i ask a sincere and ardent question and you trick me.

Its unironically god

>>17674099
a wise kitty

>>17674076
Why do you think it's a tecnique?
Maybe it's the theme, the plot or the way they are displayed in the book?

>>17674076
all books reorganize your brain, that's why you have to be careful who you read you might reach psychosis

>>17674090
Yes it is, it goes "THIS WINTER IS COLD AND UNFORGIVING, JUST LIKE MY FATHER"

>>17674093
lel those frogs have infinitely more depth than the retarded weeb shit you post

>>17674117
You should try being more familiar with art anon, you'll come across many such great artworks. You'll also gradually develop your own mental framework in which to understand them; Jung for example, called them visionary works of art.

>>17675894
Ha!

>>17674093
Plz MOAR

>>17674093
No animu grills doe

>>17674089
sorry pal, you've been caught in his genjutsu

>>17674117
>I am not really a big reader
>No! You're wroooooong! That's not a literary technique!!!!!

My nigga it's just called being a talented writer. (I also heard that Tolstoy would describe things as if he were seeing them for the first time, so maybe that will help you)

>>17676056
NO NOT IN A GENJUTSU

NIGGERMAN I am going InSAinE!! 111

AAHAAHAABABABhHAah

>>17675905
wow you had to write a paragraph of text in order to express yourself through a picture. god tier imagery! youre totally an authority on this subject

>>17674076
What you are experiencing, through its masterly depiction in the work of L. Tolstoi, is the breakdown of your falling-prey to the They (inauthentic awareness of death as something that "happens to one" in the third-person) and the Call of Dasein's authenticity (being-towards-death). This is why Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilyich is the only work of fiction explicitly referenced in Heidegger's Sein und Zeit.

>>17676089
uh-oh, someone's getting catty.

>>17674076
It's because you're 15, OP, and your reading experience before russian literature was fantasy and fanfics.

Especially in comparison to English literature - hell, even in comparison to just American literature - Russian literature sucks.

It's extremely limited not only in scope (only at most a dozen interesting literary figures out of 200+ million people, in a period spanning just ~40 years out of 1000+ years of the history of Slavic people) but in thematic diversity as well - it's almost all "muh hardships in life and how i'm using spirituality/metaphysics/transcendence to overcome them." That's it.

There's no decent Russian realist book (with a different theme to the one mentioned above, at least). No decent sci-fi book (besides Roadside Picnic, maybe). No decent gothic book. No decent horror book. No decent modernist book. No decent post-modernist book. No decent.. well, almost anything really.

Russian literature is as barren and uninteresting as Russia's geographic, social and political landscape. It's sad to think that some people confine themselves completely within this culture's literature. Their brain must undergo extreme shrinkage as a result.

Hell, America alone has:
1. Herman Melville
2. Walt Whitman
3. William Faulkner
4. Edgar Allan Poe
5. Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. Philip K. Dick
7. Thomas Pynchon
8. William Gaddis
9. Cormac McCarthy
10. DFW
11. Kurt Vonnegut
12. Nathaniel Hawthorne
13. Henry David Thoreau
14. John Steinbeck
15. Ursula Le Guin
16. Ezra Pound
17. Frank Herbert
18. Ernest Hemingway
19. F. Scott Fitzgerald
20. Truman Capote
21. Mark Twain
22. Don DeLillo
23. Philip Roth
24. Allen Ginsberg
25. William Burroughs
26. Jack Kerouac
27. H.P. Lovecraft
28. Charles Bukowski
29. Hunter Thompson
30. William Gibson
And that's just America. Look how much diversity one nation of 200-300+ million people achieved in barely 200 years. Meanwhile Russia has been around for 1000 years, with a similar population, and there's none of that. Zero creativity. An entirely creatively bankrupt nation.

And I didn't even mention any British writers yet. Britain is a hefty opponent for America in terms of literary output, especially when it comes to classical literature. And that's an island nation of just ~50 million people - over 4 times fewer. I forgot to mention that of course both British and American literature use the same language, so in any meaningful comparisons langVSlang BOTH nations' outputs should be added to one tally - but that's just an unfair wreckage to any other literature in the world.

>>17676111
that would be the tripfag who spergs out over people not posting images she approves of in every thread for some reason

>>17676119
>Kurt Vonnegut
Ok buddy.

>>17676132
>for some reason
Pepe isn’t the board mascot. Blowjack is loathsome. You make the place less /lit/ every time post them

>>17676183
You are very active for the past few days.

>>17676119
What a sad pasta.

OP here, is psychological realism a technique?

>>17674076
>What technique is this?
Tolstoy is a natural writer and his train of thought is entrancing. There is no technique, just pure mojo.

>>17676183

both make for infinitely more expressive and versatile imagery than anything you've contributed by a catastrophically wide margin, why would your opinion on the matter be even remotely valid? why should anyone take you seriously when you do nothing but undermine yourself and provide nothing? if you think you can do better then prove it

>>17676119
the absolute state of angl*s
hope someone made this pasta to make fun of them because holy shit

>>17676089
just filter tripfags retard

>>17676119
In the slim case that this is not a joke, you don't know shit about Russian literature and should shut up and kill yourself.

>>17676119
>post modernism bad
>Allen Ginsberg good