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1953725 No.1953725 [Reply] [Original]

who's your favorite Russian writer and why?

>> No.1953737

none because fuck russia and they can't write for shti

>> No.1953747

Dostoyevsky

I read Notes From The Underground when I was 14, and to this day, I'm amazed at how well that book connected with my thoughts and feelings at the time.

>> No.1953749

>>1953747
>connecting with the underground man at 14
damn son you're edgy as fuck

TWO PLUS TWO = 4 ONLY BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT SAYS SO

gimme a break that book fuckin sucks

>> No.1953751
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Nabokov of course.

>> No.1953752

>>1953749

Benjamin, why do you arrive to ruin every thread the instant I step into it? Do you do it intentionally? Do you stand upon the edge of the chasm and look down, saying, "There. That thread. That one next."

Are you some creature of lore? Do old craftsmen herald your coming, hands shaking with the effort to remain breathing despite your inevitability? To Hungarian grandmothers use the vague notion of you to frighten their mountain-children into doors before the setting sun?

Who ARE you?

What do you WANT?

Go AWAY.

>> No.1953754

>>1953749

Idk, I think the fact that a crusty old Russian fucker could encapsulate feelings of alienation well enough that it connects with some suburbanite American whitebread decades later is pretty impressive.

>> No.1953756

>>1953751

isayshark.jpg

Chekhov's better. But then again so is Tolstoy. And Dostoevsky.

And Turgenev.

>> No.1953757

without a doubt tolstoy

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>>1953752
I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values.

>> No.1953759

Kharms

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Dostoyevsky considered Tolstoy his only superior, and complained of standing in his shadow.

On his deathbed, Tolstoy kept a copy of The Brothers Karamazov.

>> No.1953762

>>1953758

"Who are you" was a rhetorical.

Skip straight to "Go away."

>> No.1953768

Tolstoy

Because Death of Ivan Ilych made me cry. Srsly.

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>>1953762

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>>1953761

That's crazy. Where's Chekhov in this?

>> No.1953876

tchakovsky

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>>1953876

>> No.1953920

solzhenitsyn

Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich is amaing

>had to look up how to spell solzhenitsyn yeah thats right

>> No.1954335

Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Solzhenitsyn.

>> No.1954340

Lenin, because he rocks :D

>> No.1954348

Asimov

>> No.1954391

>>1954340

lol awful writer. Faux-revolutionary.

Yourtastesareshit.jpg

>> No.1954400

>>1954391

>faux-revolutionary
>Actually lead a revolution

What the hell does it take to please you people?

>> No.1954410

>>1954400
Revolutions are so mainstream.

>> No.1954493

>>1954410
How?

>> No.1954496

>>1953761
That's beautiful, man.

>> No.1955468

Gogol

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VLADMEER NAVELKOFF IS MY FAVORITE "RUSSIAN AUTHOR". HE IS IN FACT THE ONLY "RUSSIAN AUTHOR" THAT I LIKE & SYMPATHIZE WITH.

>> No.1955474

>>1955468
Gogol is not Russian, and is important in literary history for that fact.

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1955476

Bulgakov
or
Lermontov

>> No.1955478

I liked Fyodor Sologub

>> No.1955491
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God Tier

Dostoievsky
Tolstoy
Nabokov

Regular Tier

Gogol
Gorki

>> No.1955697

>>1954400

lol, he didn't actually lead a revolution. He did nothing that qualifies as revolutionary, he was just a politician and a political opportunist who stepped in and talked a lot of bullshit during a class revolt in Russia. The Bolsheviks had virtually nothing to do with the Czars actual downfall, and played only a negative role in the restructuring of Russian society afterward.

>> No.1955714

Bulgakov, definitely Bulgakov.