Russian novels be like

[Anonymous No.20019860]

>Hello, my name is Alyona Lipovsky Barinov
>Hello, Alyona Lipovsky Barinov, I'm Artem Litvin Belov and his is my friend Nikolai Abashidze Artyomov.
>Why, Nikolai Abashidze Artyomov, you rascal. Your mother Galina Balakirev Antonov told me all about your runnings with Daniil Zaitsev Kozlov.
>Oh, mon cher, pain au chocolat, omelette du fromage, ui, ui.
>Why, you remind me of my cousin Yuri Preobrazhensky Stepanchikov and the way he treated poor Ulyana Nikitin Vinogradov.
>Alyona Lipovsky Barinov, please, you're bothering my dear friend Steve. Let's go see Ivan Balakin Agafonov; we're expecting news regarding the baby.

[Anonymous No.20019867]

>>20019860
lmao

[Anonymous No.20019874]

kek.

[Anonymous No.20019881]

I personally liked Andrei, but I think his friend Bolkonsky was a bad influence.

[Anonymous No.20019893]

I do not care for Russian literature

[Anonymous No.20019913]

>>20019860
>Start reading
>There are 30 characters introduced in the first chapter
With the cold and the bears outside old Russian people had to pack selves all up in one room all together. This tradition also in Russian novel

[Anonymous No.20019922]

>>20019913
My novel starts like that and I just hope if someone starts reading this shit one day they won't be intimidated.

[Anonymous No.20020244]

>>20019913
30 characters that you realize at the end are all the same dude because Russians have like 100 names they call each other

[Anonymous No.20020250]

>>20019860
It really do be like that

[Anonymous No.20020353]

>>20019860
>Oh, mon cher, pain au chocolat, omelette du fromage, ui, ui.
bullseye, reading French shit in the middle of a conversation disrupts my flow so much

[Anonymous No.20020611]

why are english monoglots like this?

[Anonymous No.20020650]

They love their names so much that they put up a name as a title.
>Brothers Karamozov
>Anna Karenina
>Onegin

[Anonymous No.20020653]

>>20020650
Everyone does this nephew

[Anonymous No.20020710]

>>20020653
Western literature does it less.

[Anonymous No.20020772]

>>20020710
Not true.

[Anonymous No.20020773]

the nick names are the worst part.
How am I supposed to know Mitja is the nickname of Dimitri?

[Anonymous No.20022148]

>>20019860
kek

[Anonymous No.20022250]

>>20019860
Don't forget how every character has half a dozen nicknames that are nothing like their actual name

[Anonymous No.20023037]

Lol this is how I felt reading Demons. Dropped it after about 100 pages, I was just confused.

[Anonymous No.20023049]

>>20020244
this lmao. niggas be using the first, middle and last name AND some fucking nickname for each interchangeably. Pick a single goddamn name and stick to it