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[Anonymous No.2701790]

Where do I start with Dostoevsky? I tried reading notes from underground but fuck. Are there any other easier authors I should read before I begin him? I liked Kafka so far so is that a good place?

[Anonymous No.2701801]

>Dostoevsky
>Hard

I started with Crime and Punishment, maybe you should too?

[Anonymous No.2701860]

Which translation did you try?

[Anonymous No.2701880]

>liked kafka
>cannot into dostojewski

shit aint logical, broseph

[Anonymous No.2701906]

Relavent to my interests right here. I have The Brothers Karamazov coming in the next couple days, good first choice?

[Anonymous No.2701909]

maybe he tried to read it in russian. i dont know , just a thought that popped up in my head.

[Anonymous No.2701913]

>>2701906
No, start with the Idiot, then C&P, then Bro's

This is the way the universe wants us to read Dosto

[Anonymous No.2701914]

>>2701906
Meh. There are worse choices.

[Anonymous No.2701916]

>>2701906
No, start with anything but Karamazov

[Anonymous No.2701920]

>>2701914
>>2701913
>>2701916
Why is it this bad of a choice? I remember reading somewhere that it's considered his best novel.

[Anonymous No.2701924]

>>2701906
Don't listen to this (>>2701913) faggot, skip the idiot, do notes from the underground, then c&p and bros and if you want more demons and the adolescent have priority over the idiot.

[Anonymous No.2701927]

>>2701920
yeah, so if you want to appreciate it at its finest you should familiarize (?) yourself with his work and style first by reading stuff like the idiot and C&P

[Anonymous No.2701933]

>>2701924
wow, looks like someone is a huge noob. its you. you are the noob.

read the idiot OP, its a great place to start

[Anonymous No.2701937]

>>2701927
Makes sense. I can put of The Super Karamazov Bros until later then. I guess I'll do Notes, C&P then Brothers.

[Anonymous No.2701940]

>>2701933
>noob

what is this, 2007? fuck off.

[Anonymous No.2701944]

Notes from Underground is the novel he wrote after which he said to himself: "Damn, I'm going to write like this from now on."

[Anonymous No.2701946]

>>2701940
i will rape you

[Anonymous No.2701953]

>>2701860
Richard pevear and Larissa volokhonsky

[Anonymous No.2701956]

>>2701946

[Anonymous No.2701963]

>>2701924
>Skip the idiot
>Priority over the idiot
Give me one reason why. One.

[Anonymous No.2701967]

>>2701956
i am ready

[Anonymous No.2701975]

I've read C+P, Notes, The Idiot and the Possessed and the latter two are my favorites. Hippolyte and Kirilov are some of the greatest characters I've ever read.

[Anonymous No.2701976]

>>2701963
One? How about the Idiot = Alyosha: The Novel.

[Anonymous No.2701979]

>>2701940
You are mentally retarded fetal alcohol baby, yes?

You have absolutely no comprehension of good writing... Why the fuck are you on lit, retard?
GTFO LIT NOW. Stupid fucking faggot.

[Anonymous No.2701986]

>>2701976
wrong, you are so wrong. how can you even be this wrong? i dont know how. but you did it. good job.

[Anonymous No.2701990]

>>2701979

[Anonymous No.2701991]

>>2701790
Notes from underground was one of the least difficult books I've ever read, the concept isn't even that hard, he goes on for pages and the prose isn't even complicated

Not even trolling

[Anonymous No.2701993]

>>2701986
You deny the similarities between the prince and alyosha? Have you even read these books?

[Anonymous No.2701995]

>>2701993
what prince? are you a retard?

maybe its you who is the idiot

[Anonymous No.2702001]

>>2701995
>confirmed for poser

Prince Myshkin, obviously. Stop talking about shit you clearly have no clue about.

[Anonymous No.2702004]

Slightly off topic here, but is "The Idiot" by Dostoevsky in any way related to "Ivan the Fool" by Tolstoy?

[Anonymous No.2702010]

>>2702001
where do you think we are?

[Anonymous No.2702015]

>>2702004
they are related in the way that they are both brilliant books

[Anonymous No.2702026]

>>2702010

[Anonymous No.2702033]

>>2702026
i remember the sound