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As an American I was spoonfed English and American literature throughout my education. I only recently discovered Russian lit, specifically Dostoevsky, on my own. I've read most of his oeuvre and have started in on Pushkin and Bulgakov. I have never connected with classic literature on this level before, it puts most of what I was assigned in my youth to shame. Why?

>> No.11520457

Because it is superior.

>t. Reading Turgenev right now

>> No.11520563
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>>11520424
I get you.
I'm in the same situation since last year.
I'm done with the four bottom, and just about to finish Cancer Ward.
Russian lit is the comfiest ever.
Highly recommend Solzhenitsyn.
The others don't even need a recommendation.
I'm thinking of A Hero of our Time once I'm done with CW.

>> No.11521780

>>11520424
>I have never connected with classic literature on this level before
Congratulations, you've been just hit with the Slavic magical powers of words and storytelling.

Be careful, because you might be infected by Slavic melancholy and resignation, too.

And that eventually leads to vodka. A lot of. Like, A LOT.

>> No.11521853

>>11520424
i'm russian and really enjoy american literature of the beginning-mid 20th century
after years of Dostoevsky, pushkin and so on all of them seem really corny to me

>> No.11521855

Russian here
Official ranking of our writers:

Turgenev>Griboedov>Gogol>Ostrovsky>the rest

>> No.11521859

>>11521855
Wrong. Bulgakov is first.

>> No.11521860

team akhmatova here

>> No.11521869

>>11521853
Heard the same from an Ucrainian, wich had to read a lot of that from 14years on in School. So many might dislike it bc of that.

But otherwise I realy like the depths of human knowlege.

>> No.11522033

>>11520424
im not sure about you but im in it for the way they look at suffering and how it should be handled.

>> No.11522398

>>11521855
Of what I've read

Chekhov>Gogol>Dosto>Turgenev>Lermontov>Bulgakov

>> No.11522537

>>11520424
>Bulgakov.

what book should i start with ?

>> No.11522675

>>11521869
Imagine reading Russian literature in search for “the depths of human knowlege”, lmao

>> No.11522684

>>11521855
Goncharov beats them all.

>> No.11522688

>>11520424
The English literary tradition is objectively superior to the Russian one though. No Russian writer comes even close to Shakespeare, not even Pushkin.

>> No.11522689

>>11520563
Uhhhh Solzhenitsyn was an antisemite

>> No.11522698

>>11522689
Yeah, but that doesn’t make him a bad writer. His horrible prose does.

>> No.11522705

>>11522537
his only one

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>>11522688
>The English literary tradition is objectively superior to the Russian one though
>No Russian writer comes even close to Shakespeare

>> No.11523546

>>11520424
do you happen to have the other pic thats constructed in the same vein but with .. dosto I think? saw it here a couple days ago

>> No.11523556

>>11522722
Do you even know Russian or are you just one of those Westerners who likes Dostoyevsky because of “le deep Russian soul” meme?

>> No.11523650

>>11522688
>saying one literary tradition is better than the other
>can only hold up one writer as his argument

England isn't even nr. 2, maybe France or Germany

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>It's Anglos who have never heard of Bely romanticize muh deep russian soul because that autist from Notes from Underground appealed to them so much episode

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>>11523546

>> No.11523762

I picked up a copy of Dead Souls a while ago for cheap at a used book sale. What am I in for?

>> No.11523811

>>11523762
A comic romp. It's this smooth talker going round visiting a wide array of characters trying exploit a loophole in serfdom.

>> No.11523848

Anyone know how good is the P&V translation of Chekhov's short novels and short stories?

>>11523762
Gogol's short stories are also great if you want to check those out.

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>>11523546
It's not Dosto, it's just a random Imperial Russian soldier. These all originated on /k/ and /pol/. The idea is that the stern, military man is disgusted with what the person a user is replying to said and is asking a subordinate to get his service pistol so he can execute the offender.

For instance if I said:
>The Zulus did nothing wrong, disgusting Br*toids go back to your island

somebody might respond with pic related

>> No.11524158

>>11521859

Read more books.

>> No.11524744

>>11521855
Ignore this tard.
Pushkin=Tolstoy>Gogol>Bely=Chekhov