Are Russians the best writers? Is this generally accepted?

[Anonymous No.10204609]

Some exemplary writers are Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Chekov, Nabokov, etc.. The list goes on and on. Whenever I see a book written by a Russian author I am instantly intrigued as to it's contents. They seem to emphasize feelings very deeply (with sometimes cruel detail). I heard that this may be do to being hardened by their vast history of hardships.

[Anonymous No.10204617]

My mom explained it to me.
It's a genetic suffering.
Russia is so shit, that a melancholy disposition is ingrained in their social collective. Good breeding ground for the arts.

[Anonymous No.10204626]

There's plenty of good and even more bad Russian writers, just like in every great literary tradition. This thread will yield nothing but start an autistic pol/int shitfest.
t. pyccкий

[Anonymous No.10204629]

>>10204626
this
captcha: stop now

[Anonymous No.10204632]

>>10204609
There is a good case for this.

[Anonymous No.10204657]

>>10204632
yes there is.

[Anonymous No.10204678]

>>10204657
Marx was German, you fat fucking retard.

[Anonymous No.10204690]

>>10204678
I was pointing out the irony of your post. Rand was a fucking Jew, not Russian. It's the equivalent of saying an Arab living in France is an authentic Frenchman, it's simply not the case.

[Anonymous No.10204695]

>>10204617
Russia is very cold and therefore people spend more time inside. Inside without modern media they have more time to read and write. This, along with the amount of large Russians that there are compared to a similarly cold place like Norway, is why Russia has a great literary culture.

[Anonymous No.10204708]

>>10204690
It wasn't my post you responded to.
If the Arab was born in France to a French speaking family that act French, I think it is safe to call him French.

[Anonymous No.10204712]

They're some of the worst. They're popular here because /lit/ is filled with whiny children who think 'muh suffrin' is good writing.

[Anonymous No.10204713]

>>10204690
Shoo shoo, /pol/

[Anonymous No.10204721]

>>10204712
Would you care to provide some examples of Good Literature that includes no suffering?

[Anonymous No.10204722]

>>10204609
its contents*

[Anonymous No.10204723]

>>10204713
>/pol/
>hates Ayn Rand
I don't think so.

[Anonymous No.10204731]

>>10204721
That's not what I said.
Typical illierate russaboo.

[Anonymous No.10204736]

>>10204731
>because /lit/ is filled with whiny children who think 'muh suffrin' is good writing.

Ok defend what you said.

[Anonymous No.10204738]

>>10204695
I am a large Russian. You small insignificant people are nothing compared to me

[Anonymous No.10204743]

>>10204722
shut up

[Anonymous No.10204744]

>>10204708
In spirit maybe. An Irishman in China might perfectly adapt to the culture and even be a citizen, but at the end of the day he's an Irishman who's living in China. His blood is not Chinese and it never will be. All this being said, I'm not some stupid /pol/ ethnonationalist, I'm just stating reality.

[Anonymous No.10204747]

>>10204738
I meant to say the large amount of Russians. Fuck.

[Anonymous No.10204750]

prosto russkie umejut v pisatelskoe masterstvo, a ostalnie net

vot i vse

[Anonymous No.10204756]

>>10204632
Alisa Rosenbaum aka "Ayn Rand", Jewish immigrant to the USA. Idolized William Hickman, a serial killer who murdered and dismembered little girls. Based her main characters, such as John Galt, on Hickman. Railed incessantly about social welfare, then spent years living on social security checks. Second-rate writer, third-rate "philosopher," textbook example of sociopathic and narcissistic personality disorders.

Truly great Russian writers would turn over in their graves at being associated with that talentless hack.

[Anonymous No.10204759]

>>10204750
Beй нoт джycт юc Pyшиaн лeттpc?

[Anonymous No.10204762]

Russians are practical with all things even their emotions.
This is why so many people find russian lit useful.

[Anonymous No.10204763]

>>10204736
Look at /lit/, it is filled with whiny children obsessed with shallow 'muh suffin' realism.

[Anonymous No.10204778]

>>10204759
Πλεβ τεϊςτ, μαϊ νηγγερ.

[Anonymous No.10204782]

>>10204708
>that act French
the chances of this are negligible. very, very few arab families are so rootless and indifferent to their own heritage and culture that they're even capable of adopting another culture perfectly. the whole idea of easy, seamless 'assimilation' is a myth. it's a difficult, humiliating process of subjecting yourself to another people's ways, and it doesn't come naturally to people at all.

[Anonymous No.10204863]

>>10204609
>Some exemplary writers are Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Chekov, Nabokov

Chekhov is the only ethnic Russian here. Tolstoy and Nabokov weren’t even Slavs.

[Anonymous No.10204918]

>>10204863
Please explain how D, T and N are not Russian.

[Anonymous No.10204921]

>>10204863
ti eblan?

[Anonymous No.10204923]

>>10204921
PSSSHHH

[Anonymous No.10204983]

>>10204617
This. A Russian 12 year old girl is more Stoic than anyone here.

[Anonymous No.10205159]

>>10204918
Dostoyevsky was Polish-Lithuanian, Tolstoy and Nabokov were Germanics with some Russian admixture

[Anonymous No.10205166]

>>10204778
? Γαμώ το μουνί που σε ξέρασε, πουτάνας γιε.

[Anonymous No.10205223]

Actually I tend to find Russian writers wallow in pathos to the point that it drifts into bathos.

Endless complaining and nihilism is not, to me, good writing.

[Anonymous No.10205227]

>>10205159
dude If Dostoyevsky was really Polish he really hates his people hahaha, the hate for Pols coming out of his books is just astonishing

[Anonymous No.10205234]

>>10205223
I'm sorry, what have you been reading?

[Anonymous No.10205311]

>Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Chekov, Nabokov, etc

if you actually speak Russian and read the originals and not the english interpretation you will realize how shit they are

[Anonymous No.10205379]

>>10205311
>Rusky lit, the only lit better in translations than than original form

[Anonymous No.10205384]

>>10205311
Except Nabokov wrote in English (he could speak it before he could speak Russian) and translated his own works.

[Anonymous No.10205393]

>>10204609
Russia literally had one century of literature. England and France have had almost a millennium.

[Anonymous No.10206114]

>>10205393
>Muh Canterbury tales and Tristram Shandy

[Anonymous No.10206187]

>>10205311
Bullshit.

[Anonymous No.10206209]

>>10204609
>the list goes on
does it?

[Anonymous No.10206399]

>>10204617
This. Russians are also more passionate, sincere and have a rich history and culture to draw ideas from.

[Anonymous No.10206401]

>tfw Russian translates like shit

[Anonymous No.10206405]

>>10205311
Bullshit.

[Anonymous No.10206534]

>>10204756
Yawn http://www.objectobot.com/?cat=184
The fact that people keep bringing up what should be an obscure peice of information to smear Rand that sounds bad but isn't true is highly suspect. Really initializes my cashews man.

[Anonymous No.10207375]

>>10204609
Such a small natio

>>10204609
Population of 140 million. What do you expect

[Anonymous No.10207549]

>>10204756
>This is an obvious reference to a rather selective discussion of notes Ayn Rand made in her journals in 1928 about a murderer named William Hickman. Hickman’s defiance after his capture, and the reaction against him—a reaction she saw as being less about the evil of his crime than about his refusal to conform to social convention—caught her attention and caused her to work on a fictionalized version called The Little Street, a project she worked on for a while and then dropped.
>Hickman has been long forgotten everywhere else, but he will live forever in the minds of Ayn Rand’s detractors, because they can now cite her notes on his case as proof that she was an admirer of serial killers and probably a psychopath herself, which means that they can now safely ignore every argument she ever made. Isn’t that convenient?
>In fact, this is only proof that writers should burn their notes before they die, because inevitably some idiot is going to come along and use your half-thought-out ramblings as proof of what you really believed, in contradiction to the thousands of pages of meticulously edited work that you actually published. In this case, if we want to know what fascinated Ayn Rand about the case of a notorious criminal, we can look at what she actually said: http://thefederalist.com/2015/07/22/anti-ideal-a-critic-of-ayn-rands-lost-novel-proves-her-point/