/lit/ - Literature

>>8699611
it autocorrected lit to kitty for some raisin

>>8699611
You don't, Russians aren't worth reading.

>>8699611
Start with Dostoyevski and stop at Dostoyevski.

>>8699611
dont ever fucking call me a kitty every again

>>8699611
I'm not a pussy mate

>>8699611
You should start with the Greeks, OP.

>>8699611
>kitty

Ass and upwards

>>8699611
Fuck off, Dolly.

>>8699611
>>8699737
top kek

Not a single real answer in the thread

>>8699907
Why don't you give one then kitty
It's not so hard, just pee near Anna Karenina or push it off a table with your paw

Depends on why you're reading him. Are you interested in examining him as a thinker, and his works as a corpus in this regard (as many approach Dostoevsky, but Tolstoy isn't really that rewarding in this)? Or are just reading him because he's known as a good writer and you want to check out his work? If the latter is your motivation, then you should simply start with whichever work peaks your interest.

>>8699611

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

>>8699611
w...why do you call me kitty

>>8699616
because you use more kitty than lit

>>8699931
>peaks

>>8700024
Constantine isn't known for his intellectual prowess

>>8699611
I recommend you read any collection of his short stories, any volume containing the likes of Three Deaths, Ivan Ilyich, The Woodfelling.

And then I recommend trying one of his shorter novels before approaching W&P and Karenina. I really enjoyed The Cossacks.

I have no experience with his essays and moral writing. But as a fiction writer he is a brilliant observer of people, and a poetic writer of landscapes, whose prose is pleasingly fluent even in translation.

>>8699621
>he hasn't read Dead Souls
Thou art a faggot

>>8699611

>>8699611
Go directly for Anna Karenina. No need to read other things before that. Read his Letter to a Hindu after that.

Ignore the guy recommending Dostoyevski. Tolstoi is an ocean to D's lake.

>>8699969
Bcuz u r purr-fect ;3 <(meow)

>>8699931
>but Tolstoy isn't really that rewarding in this
You clearly haven't read any of his sociological and philosophical essays, otherwise you'd never have said that.

>>8701012
>Go directly for Anna Karenina. No need to read other things before that.
This. I'm seconding that.

>>8699621
>Thinks Mark Twain is better than Dostoevsky
>Thinks Ray Bradbury can compare to Bulgakov
>Thinks George Orwell compares to Turgenev

>>8701022
I'd point out that many still aren't in English but isn't that dude meant to be a Slav or something?

>>8701047
>a Slav
You mean politically? Dostoyevski was the panslavist nationalist, not Tolstoi; his work displays somewhat anarchistic tendencies if anything, if that was your question.

>>8701058
No, the tripfag.

>>8701060
Ah, my bad.

>>8701012
>Ignore the guy recommending Dostoyevski. Tolstoi is an ocean to D's lake.
t. pseud

>>8701087
It's my personal perception. D might dwell on psychological detail and is undoubtably very sharp and intelligent in his observations, but the world he observes is a shoebox compared to the literal realms T is opening up to. Sorry if that oppinion offends you.

>>8701119
nice rhetoric, jackass.

>>8699635
>>8701012
>>8701058
>>8701087

FUCK OFF. ITS DOSTOEVSKY. SKY.

>>8700176
No it's shit anon.

>>8701037
Twain is actually better than Dostoevsky desu

>>8701022
I actually have, and that is why I say that.

>>8701230

>angry burgers telling us how we should spell the names of russian authors

forty keks

>>8701230
Lol

>Dostoye/v/sky

>>8701230
That's a strange way to spell Doestoevski

Death of Ivan Iliych.

Everything he wrote is worth reading.

>>8701230
>>8702354
That's a strange way to spell Dostoevskitty

>>8701230
It's Дocтoéвcкий.

>>8702362
This.

>>8702533
>>8702362
>Дocтoéвcкoт

I started with Anna Karenina, And I do not regret it at all...

>>8699611
>Alright kitty, where do I start with pic related?
>Alright kitty

Why is this so perfect? I can't stop laughing.