/lit/ - Literature

I've read three dostoyevsky books and one of his shorts and didn't particularly like any of it. only really works if you relate to the characters on a moral and spiritual level. otherwise it comes off as as a morally insecure man trying to cope through fiction.

>>22326644
>only really works if you relate to the characters on a moral and spiritual level.
>Doesn't relate with the Underground Man
>Doesn't relate with Ivan's anguished soul
I envy you.

>>22326632
Literally how though? I read it and it was a bog-standard story with absolutely nothing special about it. And I'm not talking about the prose, I'm talking about the rest of what makes a novel a novel. There is nothing 'great' or 'magnificent' about it, it's just really long (and I like really long books) boring story with some good, interesting bits here and there, just not enough of them, nor any that do the rest justice.

I tried reading this book as a kid and after ten or 15 pages it became too heckin complicated. I look the word 'nihilist' too and didn't get it.

>>22326664
>/lit/ is a high IQ board

>>22326662
You can tell a lot about a man by which of the three brothers he relates to the most. I'm Mitya btw.

>>22326671
Dostoevsky's works are written for Christians by a Christian. If you're into a higher-level subjects such as Traditional metaphysics like me, then of course something so pointless as Dostoevsky will hold next-to-zero value or meaning.

>>22326683
>Traditional metaphysics

>>22326662
>>22326680
Dosto fanboys are such fags holy shit

>>22326662
my sense of morality has more in common with a wild animal than mr fyodor.

>>22326644
Imagine thinking morality is not interesting or deep enough of a concept to write literature about lmao. It's literally the questions of how we should act and what we should do in life.

>>22326694
t. hylic

>>22326763
>Imagine thinking morality is not interesting or deep enough of a concept to write literature about
Not when religion is involved. Religion is the enemy of fiction. Oil and water.

>>22326632
>80s synth dark wave electronic drum beat 120 bpm
Alyoshka
Alyoshka
Can you forgive, what I’ve done?
Alyoshka
Alyoshka
You’ll always be, my favorite son

>>22326763
I've gotten a lot more interesting and useful information on that subject from philosophical materials than I have from religious fiction.

>>22326632
>muh prose
a book that has such a bad prose like brothers karamazov can NEVER be the goat. D's prose sucks ass.

>>22327984
>D's prose sucks ass.
It does, and yet TBK is still the GOAT.
Prose fags need not apply.

>>22327984
Garnett's prose gets the job done, and is quite beautiful in its own right. P&Vfags need not apply.

>>22326632
>reading Put*n books
traitor