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Post novels you consider underrated. I think this is one of Dostoevsky's best but I rarely hear anyone talk about it.

>> No.22205952

I read and enjoyed in but best one? The fact that it's auto-biographical makes it too unfocused on the themes and light on deep characterisation

>> No.22205985

>>22205952
I like the fish out of water experience it provides, seeing this simpy author try to coexist with a bunch of violent, drunken thieves and murderers.

>> No.22206238

>>22205927
Yes, this one is very good.
Not really novels, but I like Aldous Huxley's Grey Eminence. It's the biography of a French diplomat who helped insert France into the Thirty Years' War.
I also enjoyed Chekhov's Sakhalin Island.
Calvino's essays about classic literature are fantastic, too.

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It's his best but even (exceedingly rare) Hawkes fans don't read it. Sad!

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>>22205927
I have a few

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>>22205927
>>22206350

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>>22205927
>>22206350
>>22206355

>> No.22206864

>>22205927
Oblomov

>> No.22207012

>>22206864
How? If youre going with Goncharov I would choose The Precipice which is extremely underrated

>> No.22208060

>>22205927
I don't know if this is a hot take, but I think that The Unbearable LIghtness of Being is pretty underrated as far as novels go.