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12535558 No.12535558 [Reply] [Original]

>part II of Notes from Underground is better than part I

>> No.12535570

>>12535558
Who would ever think that?

>> No.12535595

>reading fiction is a waste of time
we all know that fucking guy

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>>12535570
Most people think the first part is unintelligible and they only praise A Propos of the Wet Snow.

>> No.12535615

>>12535558
>notes from Underground is an essential work to understand Dostoevky!!!

>> No.12535618

>In the current year books are one of the least efficient and least interesting mediums to absorb information. I can get what you get from your weeks of reading, in an hour of surfing the web.

>> No.12535641

>>12535615
But it absolutely is, although it's not among his top works. In fact, you can see many of his characters as iterations on the concept of the underground man.

>> No.12535650

>Books need to be under 200 pages long

>> No.12535723

>>12535650
Who the fuck says that?

>> No.12535745

>>12535723
not the guy you reply to, but I have heard it as well. I suppose it is meant to say that if the author cannot tell his story- or get his message across in under 200 pages, it is not worth bothering with. Idiocy of course.

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>>12535723
>"It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books — setting out in five hundred pages an idea that can be perfectly related orally in five minutes. The better way to go about it is pretend that those books already exist, and offer a summary, a commentary on them."

This guy.

>> No.12536339

>>12535558
They're both boring and shit

>> No.12536354

>>12535723
i do. or at most 300. the encyclopedic autist Great TM novel meme needs to die.

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>>12535558
>Harry Potter is overrated

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>>12535558
>Lord of the rings>Chronicles of Narnia

>> No.12537407

>>12536354
How is The Name of the Rose or Moby Dick encyclopedic/autistic?

>> No.12537522

>>12535794
> setting out in five hundred pages an idea that can be perfectly related orally in five minutes
lol what
Why wouldn't this apply to any length of book, or any form of literature at all. Fuck telling a story, just write down the basic idea or message. Jesus christ.

>> No.12537534

>>12537522
That's why he only wrote short stories, you dimwit. They're small, self-contained, and impactful. A lot of novelists could very well hear this advice and cut the crap when they write.

>> No.12537538

>>12537534
Why write a short story when you could just tell the same thing in a paragraph retard?

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>> No.12538161

>>12537407
>How is Moby Dick encyclopedic/autistic?
is this a joke?