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Let's end this right now

Crime & Punishment>War & Peace>Anna Karenina>The Brothers Karmazov>The Death of Ivan Ivylich>Demonds>The Idiot>The resurrection>Notes From Underground

Overall Tolstoys a better writer he has better characters, prose and story's. Dostoyevsky too on the nose with his philosophy but he's better at writing a characters anxietys and inner thoughts, dostoy is better at focusing on one little thing and perfecting it and Tolstoy goes everywhere but doesn't perfectly execute it.

>> No.15605620

>>15605569
Tolstoy is the better writer, but for some reason I just have a particular attachment to TBK. I don’t really have a desire to read through War and Peace or AK again but I know it will only be a short matter of time before I feel an itch to pick up with the Karamazovs again.

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Dostoevsky was undoubtedly a passionate man, but I have to wonder at anyone who puts him above Tolstoy. You may like Dostoevsky's religion or his politics or his psychology, but it must be admitted that as an artist he was third-rate. Tolstoy surpasses him at everything except comedy. He was even a better psychologist. He was one of the greatest artists in Western literature, next to whom Dostoevsky was a raving scribbler.

>> No.15605706

>>15605569
Nabokov is the thinking man’s answer.

>> No.15606272

>>15605706
He's probably better than both prose wise but he's not as good at anything else the others do

>> No.15606751

>>15605569
I prefer Leodor Tolstoyevsky's Crime & War: The Death Of The Idiot (Anna Karamazov)

>> No.15606787

>>15605569
Dosto is massively overrated, C&P and TBK are absolute trash compared with W&P and AK

>> No.15606789

>>15606787
>Dosto is massively overrated
You misspelled underrated.

>> No.15606797

>>15606787
Hello Nabby, r u good?

>> No.15606813

>>15605569
The coldest take on this board is to hate Dostoevsky. Go read your agnostic pedophile fantasies and tell me about pedo priests

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When did you realize it was his best work?