/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16153141]

Gogol bros where we at?

[Anonymous No.16153214]

>>16153141

I don’t care.

[Anonymous No.16153285]

>>16153141
Right here my man. If anyone hasn't read the Overcoat yet, do it right now. It's 18 measly pages and some of the best stuff ever put into a short story. Here's what Nabokov had to say about it:

>Vladimir Nabokov, writing in his Lectures on Russian Literature, gave the following appraisal of Gogol and his most famous story: "Steady Pushkin, matter-of-fact Tolstoy, restrained Chekhov have all had their moments of irrational insight which simultaneously blurred the sentence and disclosed a secret meaning worth the sudden focal shift. But with Gogol this shifting is the very basis of his art, so that whenever he tried to write in the round hand of literary tradition and to treat rational ideas in a logical way, he lost all trace of talent. When, as in the immortal The Overcoat, he really let himself go and pottered on the brink of his private abyss, he became the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced."

And here's a link to a pdf: http://www.fountainheadpress.com/expandingthearc/assets/gogolovercoat.pdf

[Anonymous No.16153357]

>>16153285
Thank you anon!

[Anonymous No.16153417]

Probably the best writer in the nineteenth century Russia. I love Dostoyevskii, but Gogol is so underrated.
This line made me cry and smile like an absolute idio the first time I read it, and it was one of the finest pieces of literature for me ever.
https://ilibrary.ru/text/1088/p.17/index.html

[Anonymous No.16153422]

>>16153141
Russian literature is shit. Also, Lovecraft is shit too. Read Poe.

[Anonymous No.16153425]

>>16153422
Cope harder

[Anonymous No.16153426]

>>16153141
Oh, hell yeah, a Gogol thread!
I recently bought The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol, which was one of the more complete editions I could find, and I'm absolutely loving it even if this translation is supposedly somewhat shitty.
I just got finished reading A Terrible Vengeance, and I really admire the balance he's able to strike between the fantastical, the terrifying, and the humorous.
What other Russian short story writers or collections should I check out. /lit/? I already know the major, canonical ones (Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Andreyev, Tolstoy. Turgenev).

[Anonymous No.16153428]

>>16153417
>I love Dostoyevskii, but Gogol is so underrated.
You read translations of both. You have no idea how good they were as writers. For all you know, they wrote like trash in Russian.

[Anonymous No.16153440]

>>16153425
Cope harder

[Anonymous No.16153448]

>>16153426
Nekrasov and Mamin-Sibiryak are pretty good. But it does not get much better than the ones listed by you anon.
Idk if he is translated into English but check out Ivan Yefremov. He is a later addition but a gigachad nonetheless.

[Anonymous No.16153455]

>>16153428
Russian is my second language, I am fluent in it and have spoken it since I am 5, thank you. Dostoyevsky's Russian is really not too beautiful, but if you dont like Gogol's language you must have дцп desu

[Anonymous No.16153457]

>>16153428
he linked the russian text

[Anonymous No.16153478]

>>16153455
Oh, okay very based then >:)))))) sorry i'm out here tryna BTFO translationfags to encourage more ppl to learn foreign languages, but i see i am in the presence of a patrician, my apologies

[Anonymous No.16153493]

>>16153478
Apologies accepted good sir, have a blessed day.

[Anonymous No.16153546]

>>16153422
Gogol is Ukrainian :^)

[Anonymous No.16153557]

>>16153546
He is literally not.

[Anonymous No.16153798]

>>16153285
as much as i like Nabokov's books , i disagree often with his views on different writers

[Anonymous No.16153809]

>>16153214
based CASposter

[Anonymous No.16154072]

>>16153141
I've never shipped someone as hard as I shipped Khoma and the Witch

[Anonymous No.16155439]

>>16153422
>Read Poe.
Pic related.

[Anonymous No.16155458]

The Nose was one of the few short stories which caused me to laugh with joy and pleasure. Dead Souls could've been a masterpiece if it had been finished, but is still a great piece of literature as is. So many good stories, can't decide if I prefer the Ukrainian tales or Petersburg tales.

[Anonymous No.16155469]

>>16155439
no need to bash poe because of faggot. Ruskies hard living has produced some of the most fantastic literature in the world.

[Anonymous No.16155476]

>>16155469
>no need to bash poe because of faggot.
I bash Poe because he's utter shit.

[Anonymous No.16155490]

>>16153422
>Russian literature is shit. Also, Lovecraft is shit too.
Based
>Read Poe.
Cringe

[Anonymous No.16155543]

>>16153141
Is gogol considered A horror writer or a fantasy writer? Because viy and the portrait was pretty spoopy

[Anonymous No.16155561]

>>16153417
God damn....I can't read any of this shit

[Anonymous No.16155572]

>>16155476
t. Coping ESL

[Anonymous No.16156441]

>>16155572
But the EFLs didn't care about Poe, it was only through the efforts of translators that his work received notoriety.

[Anonymous No.16157364]

>>16155439
based baki anon
opinion validated

[Anonymous No.16158596]

>>16153557
Why would you say that?
>Gogol was born in the Ukrainian Cossack town of Sorochyntsi,[15] in the Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire. His mother descended from Leonty Kosyarovsky, an officer of the Lubny Regiment in 1710. His father Vasili Gogol-Yanovsky, a descendant of Ukrainian Cossacks (see Lyzohub family) and who died when Gogol was 15 years old, belonged to the 'petty gentry', wrote poetry in Ukrainian and Russian, and was an amateur Ukrainian-language playwright. As was typical of the left-bank Ukrainian gentry of the early nineteenth century, the family spoke Ukrainian as well as Russian. As a child, Gogol helped stage Ukrainian-language plays in his uncle's home theater.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Gogol

[Anonymous No.16158624]

>>16153141
terrible revenge is kino

[Anonymous No.16158767]

Maybe some Gogol bros can explain this...
Pic related.

[Anonymous No.16158960]

>>16158596
ukraine doesn't real and is russian clay. checkmate.

[Anonymous No.16159926]

>>16158960
10 rub. deposited to your account Mr. Ivan Ivanovich