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I am Russian and only read Russian literature, I am literally better than you all.

>> No.17455664
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17455664

ты нe кoшкa, ты бaбyин

>> No.17455675

>>17455648
>most Russian writers larped as honorary Frenchmen
Uh huh

>> No.17455698

>>17455648
I am American and I have never even heard of any non-American writer besides Shakespeare. Topple this

>> No.17455708

>>17455698
Did you come to /lit/ just now for first time? Cause it's impossible to be here and not notice all those non-American authors people talk about.

>> No.17455723

>>17455664
Cпacибo Aбy!

>> No.17455730

>>17455648
Yet you still come here instead of trying to brag about it on 2ch.hk because you know you would be shitted on for your extremely bad taste. That's losing in my book.

>> No.17455747

>>17455648
бaceд
cлaвяни caмый лyчший

fuck them other niggas

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>>17455730
>Yet you still come here instead of trying to brag about it on 2ch.hk because you know you would be shitted on for your extremely bad taste. That's losing in my book.

>> No.17455764

>>17455708
Are you non-American? We're physically unable to empirically perceive any phenomena outside of our borders. The Canadian border, where forests and soil sharply disappear into white and blank empty infinity is an amazing view, try it. One of the most existential experiences of my life

>> No.17455770

>>17455648
You're missing out.

Russian literature sucks. It's extremely limited not only in scope (only at most a dozen interesting literary figures out of ~200+ million people from a period spanning ~40 years out of 1000+ years of the existence of slavic people) but in thematic diversity as well - it's almost all "muh hardships in life and how i'm using spirituality/metaphysics/transcendence to overcome them." That's it. There's no decent realist book (with a different theme to the one mentioned above, at least). No decent sci-fi book (besides Roadside Picnic, maybe). No decent gothic book. No decent horror book. No decent modernist book. No decent post-modernist book. No decent.. well, almost anything really.

Russian literature is as barren and uninteresting as Russia's geographic, social and political landscape is. It's sad that this is the entire world for you. Your brain must've undergone extreme shrinkage as a result.

America alone has:
1. Herman Melville
2. Walt Whitman
3. William Faulkner
4. Edgar Allan Poe
5. Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. Philip K. Dick
7. Thomas Pynchon
8. William Gaddis
9. Cormac McCarthy
10. DFW
11. Kurt Vonnegut
12. Nathaniel Hawthorne
13. Henry David Thoreau
14. John Steinbeck
15. Ursula Le Guin
16. Ezra Pound
17. Frank Herbert
18. Ernest Hemingway
19. F. Scott Fitzgerald
20. Truman Capote
21. Mark Twain
22. Don DeLillo
23. Philip Roth
24. Allen Ginsberg
25. William Burroughs
26. Jack Kerouac
27. Alexander Theroux
28. Charles Bukowski
29. Hunter Thompson
30. William Gibson
And that's just America. I didn't even mention any British writers yet. Pathetic.

>> No.17455778

>>17455770
absolutely based and keyed

>> No.17455786

>>17455770
Holy based.

>> No.17455789

>>17455648
Nice try, but I'm French. You can't even match my arrogance, let alone my personal value.

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>>17455770
>No decent sci-fi book

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>>17455789
>hon hon arbuste de fromage, au mon dieu un sapin et un lapin, mais comment ca se peut? qui vole un oeuf, vole un boeuf

>> No.17455827

>>17455770
grow up

>> No.17455831

russian frend I love russian history and language and I am starting to learn it.
and no I am not burgerking americano teenager russianphile just clarifying for the reddit tier fags who are going to respond with this.

>> No.17455833

>>17455805
Have sex

>> No.17455838

>>17455770
Should Pound and expats really count ?

>> No.17455842

>>17455816
T'essayes de parler français là ? Laisse tomber, une chèvre qui pète fait montre de davantage d'éloquence.

>> No.17455843

>>17455831
>and no I am not burgerking americano teenager russianphile just clarifying for the reddit tier fags who are going to respond with this
I don’t even know what that’s supposed to mean or imply or why it’s relevant.

>> No.17455854

>>17455770
Is american literature overrated?
The american mind is straightforward and hence lends itself to a simpler writing style and ideas. This is its' biggest strength but ultimately the cause of its' utter failure.
Apart from a few exceptions it seems that time is better spent reading European classics.
I am not here to bait people, ultimately I hope I have the wrong opinion.

>> No.17455859

>>17455843
yes

>> No.17455864

>>17455842
C'est une citation d'un de vos plus célèbres '''''''penseurs''''''' Mr Montaigne

>> No.17455866

>>17455648
You know what? You're right

>> No.17455871

>>17455833
If the User, under any circumstances, is unable to provide their virginity verification card, /lit/ Ltd. reserves the right to unilaterally terminate the terms of service

>> No.17455878

>>17455854
>The american mind is straightforward and hence lends itself to a simpler writing style and ideas
You have never read an American book in your life, which is quite pathetic considering that writers like Melville, PKD, Faulkner or Pynchon are of global renown.

>> No.17455879

>>17455878
I have read most of the classics

>> No.17455882

>>17455864
>arbuste de fromage
Montaigne was more psychedelic than I imagined, then.

>>17455854
Poe alone is enough to prove you wrong.

>> No.17455899

>>17455770
LOL most of the ones you listed are fucking trash

>> No.17455916

>>17455770
Are Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy literally the only Russian authors you’ve ever read? Authors like Chekhov and Turgenev do realism without the religion. Besides, novels like Anna Karenina and War and Peace are literally the best realism has to offer. Everyone recognises that Tolstoys moralism is a blot against his art, but everyone also recognises how aesthetically advanced his works are.

>> No.17455939

>>17455770
If this isn't THE inflammatory shitpost I don't know what is.
>No decent modernist book
If they are not well known in English that doesn't mean they don't exist. Have even heard of Mayakovsky?
>No decent sci-fi book
>No decent horror book
End my fucking life

>> No.17456008

>>17455916
>Authors like Chekhov and Turgenev do realism without the religion
No decent realist books though. My point still stands.
And that's because these realist books are still set within the same tired context of the same tired circle of life in muh repressive Russian Empire.

Ultimately, it's an extremely boring fucking setting.
>>17455939
Even a chink could name some modernist/sci-fi books written in his own language. Doesn't make your literature unique, nor that book interesting. I could read this mayonnaise guy, but he's a rando. I could as well read some chink or spic writer. It's all the same random bullshit to me.

>> No.17456014

>>17456008
>Ultimately, it's an extremely boring fucking setting.
jesus THANK YOU somebody finally said it

>> No.17456031

>>17456008
Read Hadji Murat or A hero of our times you fag

>> No.17456059

>>17456008
typical ignorant burger murrican fatass with shit taste

>> No.17456062

>>17456008
Ok now I see you're shitposting. Before I was a little bit disturbed I share the globe with someone who can type "X literature bad because no horror book" with a dead-serious face

>> No.17456076

>>17455648
I am Greek and only read the New Testament, I am a more vile worm and less worthy of God's love than any of you

>> No.17456082

>>17456059
ignorant burger murican fatasses with shit taste created a better literature and a stronger empire than you russians could ever dream of
>>17456062
you're the one who's simplifying messages, not me

>> No.17456094

>>17456059
Lol @ this Russian who thought he was better than an American

>> No.17456099

>>17455770
FUCK YOU MOTHER IDIOT
YOU SMUG AMERICAN YOU THINK YOU WRITE SOUL
AMERICAN ALWAYS ARROGANT FAT HEAD

>> No.17456113

>>17455878
>Pynchon
>Global renown
Lol. Newfag. Hemingway is more renowned than literally on your list.

>> No.17456116

>>17456076
Quite the contrary anon, you're a magnificent butterfly and a bee of Athens. At the same time, somehow.

>> No.17456151

>>17455770
Good Russian writers can be counted on two thumbless hands, but there's more blackpilled truth in their works than in the works of all those Americans put together.

>> No.17456172

>>17455770
You forgot Lovecraft

>> No.17456337

>>17456099
Calm down he's being ironic

>> No.17457775

bump

>> No.17457798

>>17455648
>дyмaeшь, чтo нa фopчe нe бyдeт peтapдoв из хиккaчa
>oни вce тyт

>> No.17457811

>>17455648
What do you think of Glukhovsky? Asking bc I assume he's the most popular current Russian author and I liked Metro 2033 in 8th grade

>> No.17458571

>>17457811
Where is he "most popular"

>> No.17458607

>>17455664
That's a compliment as far as I'm concerned.