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11004402 No.11004402 [Reply] [Original]

What should I know him?

>> No.11004409

>>11004402
he know you

>> No.11004410

>What should I know him?
What did OP mean by this?

>> No.11004413
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11004413

>>11004402
*before reading him.

>> No.11004414

>>11004402
Try to send him a friend request. It's worth a try, but he is hard to get a hold of.

>> No.11004424

>>11004413
If you really want an intro to what made him the way he is just read Notes from a Dead House. Another book on his life that's really good is Henry Troytat's Firebrand : The Life of Dostoevsky.

>> No.11004426

>>11004413
You should know that he was a cool guy.

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>>11004409

>> No.11004437

>>11004413
Any good edition of his books will tell you all you need to know about him in the introduction.

>> No.11004462

>hits head on desk
>dies
Some writer HE was....

>> No.11004595

>>11004402
He had the greatest prose of all time. It was easily accessible unlike Joyce’s, it was erratic, innovative, witty and profound. Probably THE greatest writer of all time, a real literary genius.

>> No.11004612

>>11004595
>accessible
If you have solid knowledge foundation of socio-cultural/political issues in 1860s Russia, then yes

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>>11004612

>> No.11004663

>>11004402
he almost died once, then he actually died.

>> No.11004746

>>11004623
prove me wrong

>> No.11004780

>>11004663
wow, he was just like me. maybe I am, too, a genius?

>> No.11004874

>>11004746
>Russia was dominated by the Czar, its Capital was Saint Petersburg, around the 1860 the serfs were freed and the religion is Eastern Orthodoxy.
Literally all the background you need and if you didn't already know it from life you should be in Elementary again.

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>>11004874

>> No.11004903 [DELETED] 

>>11004746
You don't need to know shit and any decent copy has all of the background you need in the footnotes/appendix you fuckhead

>> No.11004923

>>11004877
t. intimidated by russian literature by making mountains out of molehills
Then again I'm not surprised as this is the current state of the /lit/ pseud

>> No.11006005

>>11004409
Ebin