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/lit/, I am completely overwhelmed with empathy for all humankind after having read Tolstoys War and Peave. I've never felt this way before Anons, I'm so amazed.

What do I even read after this?

>> No.8341978

a decent translation, or preferrably in russian.

then anna karenina

>> No.8341980

>>8341974
tolstoi a hack
read dosto

>> No.8341981 [DELETED] 

>>8341974
cuck

Now take the redpill and realize women, blacks, Jews, liberals, socialists, libertarians, vegetarians, degenerates, poor people, and the handicapped are inherently inferior to you as a white heterosexual conservative man, and ought to be brutally subjugated or even killed

>> No.8341982

>>8341974
Tolstoy, Leo. A favorite between the ages of 10 and 15, and thereafter. Read complete works between 14 and 15. Nobody takes his utilitarian moralism seriously. A genius.

>>8341980
Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his reactionary journalism seriously.

>> No.8341985

>>8341980
I have and I loved Crime and Punishment, but it just seems like an introduction now compared to this masterpiece.

>> No.8341987

>>8341981
This is the green pill, Anon. The antidote. Take it. Your heart will be filled with warmth.

>> No.8341991

>>8341982
wtf is going on in this post
0/10 for terrible prose

>> No.8342040

>>8341982
>Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing
Have to agree with Nabokov on this. More than once I found myself laughing out loud when reading Dostoevsky.

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>>8341991
>terrible prose

>> No.8342053

>>8341981
If this isn't bait please kill yourself

>>8341982
Daily remainder that Nabokov, even in his reviewing of others' literature, was an unreliable narrator

>>8341974
Which translation did you read? I read Garnett's during my adolescence and it wasn't nearly as impactful as I had experienced

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>>8342053
>it wasn't nearly as impactful as I had experienced
What does this even *mean*?

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>>8342046
>terrible prose

>> No.8342217

>>8342185
Nabokov didn't say that about Joyce. He just didn't like FW because it was too avant-garde for him.

>> No.8342255

>>8342217
was kinda just making a meme of joyce being called out for terrible prose in FW and Ulysses

>> No.8342273

is maude the best translation?

>> No.8342279

>>8342273
yes

>> No.8342851

dostoe and tolstoi are literal and easy to translate, hence the ubiquity of translations done by total dolty mark rubes (looking at you P&V).

if you want real russian hours, then read pushkin and bulgakov. near impossible to translate bc they are v idiosyncratic and highly referential to russian culture/language of the time.
they write like poets.
the former write like reporters.

>> No.8342869

More Tolstoy

maybe some Chekhov

"The Student" is a nice one by Chekhov

>> No.8342885

>>8342869
i found The Duel boring as death. do i just not like chekov or is the student better?

>> No.8343244

>>8341974
What is objectively the best translation? I hope it's Maude because I want the hardcover boxed set.

>> No.8343348

>>8343244
I would read either the Maudes or P&V. If you really like it and plan in a re-read, go for both.

>> No.8343360

Something fun.

>> No.8343508

i will read P&V translation because it has the best cover (which is also the one on the meme chart)