/lit/ - Literature

>>11462828
Good riddance to nihilism, I guess. Tough luck seeking redemption in the Gospels without the actual Gospels, tho.

DUDE SUFFERING LMAO

Is Part 1 the best part of this book? I’m halfway through part 2 and nodding off from boredom.

https://www.strawpoll.me/15794495

>>11156222
>>11156287
This. Nabokov was trash and I hate him mainly just for bashing Dosto.

Anyway, Crime and Punishment taught me that everybody is worth something and should treated with respect. Now I believe that everybody is worth something and that I should treat them with respect. Sonya's also my gf haha. Nah just kidding, she's fictional character really.

>>11021906
How is this shit even legal?
10 pages in and it's blatant murder.

Does anyone know a good literary analysis i can read along with while reading Crime and Punishment? thank you

>>10904430
Crime and Punishment Is my favorite book. I loved the story and all of the characters. The ending and the epilogue hit me hard in my heart.

Damn, I'm not a Nietzschean superman unencumbered by traditional moral qualms after all.

wtf I want to be treated like a dog now

When you read a translation of a novel, say, Crime and Punishment, are you reading Dostoevsky’s work or are you reading the translator’s work?
Have I really read Dostoevsky if I can’t read Russian?

>Love yourself before all, because everything in the world is based off self-interest. If you love only yourself you will set your affairs up properly, and your caftan will also remain in one piece. And economic truth adds that the more properly arranged personal affairs and, so to speak, whole caftans there are in society, the firmer its foundations are and the better arranged its common cause. It follows that by acquiring solely and exclusively for myself, I am thereby precisely acquiring for everyone, as it were, and working so that my neighbor will have something more than a torn caftan, not from private, isolated generosities now, but as a result of universal prosperity.
Dostoevsky utterly and unequivocally btfo communists before communists even existed.

>>10746656
This

You know it's true

I really wish I knew Russian because I feel like there is a melodramtic flair to this that just doesn't translate to English

Just finished C&P. Is Adrea Semenovitch a cuck?

Holy shit, it's so fucking tense.

I just finished this. Where should I go from here?

Dostoevski, who dealt with themes accepted by most readers as universal in both scope and significance, is considered one of the world's great authors. Yet you have described him as "a cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. " Why?

Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoevski as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist. He was a prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. I admit that some of his scenes, some of his tremendous, farcical rows are extraordinarily amusing. But his sensitive murderers and soulful prostitutes are not to be endured for one moment-- by this reader anyway.

anyone else got the gay vibes from Porfiry Petrovich?