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4050825 No.4050825 [Reply] [Original]

Was Dostoyevsky a god or a genius?

>> No.4050844

i don't get scaruffi's literature page

>Bratya Karamazovy/ Karamazov Brothers (1880) is a philosophical novel narrated by an "omniscient" invisible character. It is overlong and several episodes seem to have been improvised just to make it more convoluted. The final speeches at the trial are redundant just like many other lengthy discussions.

but it tops his best Russian novels of all time

maybe he did these at different times and he just changed his mind

>> No.4050851

I do like what he says about IJ

>It's an avalanche of bad English that distracts from the meaning (if any) of the story. Many of the characters are irrelevant. Wallace keeps exploding the cast, perhaps because he doesn't quite know what to do with the cast. Once he introduces a character, Wallace doesn't know how to make him or her interact with the others. Dialogues are, in fact, the weakest part of the novel. Vast sections of the book are irrelevant. They don't add anything to the story, they are not particularly well written, they contain no major meditation. "Verbose" doesn't even come close to describing Wallace's style. Most of the book is a chaotic heap of details that are both redundant and poorly written.

>> No.4050866

>>4050844
>>4050851
Scruff is a philosopher of mind. His literary and music critiques are not very useful.

Dostoyevsky was just a good author.

>> No.4050905

>>4050844

Woah, whoever wrote that is the most mentally retarded cunt that ever lived.

>narrated by an omniscient invisible character

Seriously? Does this CUNT of a whore know nothing of 19th century narrative traditions?

Grow the fuck up, cuntard.

>> No.4050929

None of the above. He was a one hit wonder--Notes from Underground being his only good work.

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>> No.4051485

>>4050929
I felt the two haves of Notes were too disjointed, with the latter halves' narrative falling flat compared to the philosophies espoused in the first half.