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20252323 No.20252323 [Reply] [Original]

how in the fuck do i prepare myself for this?

>> No.20252325

You dont. Pick a favourite character and immerse yourself.

>> No.20252326

lube up your anus and spread it out to putin

>> No.20252347

prepare to be bored

>> No.20252352

>>20252323
English classes do you can read.
If you know Russian, read that.

>> No.20252458

>>20252347
This was one of the few "classics" where I was not bored through the whole thing.

>> No.20252473

start with the sumerians :)

>> No.20252482

You need to learn Russian before you can read this. Otherwise, gtfo /lit/.

>> No.20252552

Don't worry, this is a very simple book to understand.

The only thing I think it would be important to keep in mind is that Dostoevsky's novelistic technique is practically dramaturgical, that is, he writes novels that look like great plays. There is more talking, more conversation, more dialogue than narration.

Crime and Punishment is more like a Shakespeare play or a Greek Tragedy than like other 19th century novels.

You will find several chapters where characters engage in verbal conflict and clash of ideas, often with characters speaking through long monologues, much like what you find in Shakespeare. It is also normal for characters to think by talking to themselves in a way that resembles dramatic soliloquy.

Dostoevsky, unfortunately, was not a poet, he did not manipulate words with the same force, beauty and creativity as Shakespeare or Aeschylus, but he is as strong as they are in revealing some of the most desperate aspects of the violence of poverty and human degradation.

>> No.20252565

>>20252347
Still don't understand this meme. It's an over-the-top melodrama about a man who hallucinates and wanders through the streets rambling to himself. The language isn't even difficult.

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20252569

>>20252323
Start with the Americans.

>> No.20252570

most people read this as a teenager as one of their first "big" books, you don't gotta prepare shit
maybe watch some columbo

>> No.20252576

>>20252323
I was about to say you don't need preparation but if you ask maybe you do need preparation

>> No.20252590

>>20252347
it's not boring.
i wish nietzsche retards would read this instead

>> No.20252878

>>20252576
im just memeing

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20252995

What the fuck was Svidrigailov's deal? The character never really made sense to me.

>> No.20253055

>>20252565
>It's an over-the-top melodrama about a man who hallucinates and wanders through the streets rambling to himself.
boring as shit. but if it's your bag more power to you

>> No.20253255

>>20252323
it's not hard to read at all, don't worry. if you're reading in translation, don't get the Pevear & Volokhonsky translation. people will tell you that it's good but it absolutely is not. they completely butcher the style of whoever they're translating and miss a lot of nuance in the writing. the Oliver Ready translation is well done, or David McDuff is good too

>>20252458
go back to to /r/books

>> No.20253264

>>20253255
lol im reading demons in P&V and its the driest prose. I read brothers and his prison memoir in Garnetts hand and it was much smoother and charming.

>> No.20253323

>>20253264
yeah absolutely. if people compare translations and somehow prefer P&V then good for them i guess, but the fact that they're the first recommendation nearly 100% of the time when people ask is so annoying. Norton at some point published Garnett translations revised by Ralph Matlaw, which are by far my favourite way to read Dosto, highly recommended if you can find them on abehbooks or whatever