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I think a lot of Russian authors are pretty to-the-point. Turgenev, Chekhov and Tolstoy come to mind, as opposed to e.g. Gogol who has a more playful style and
by gnulinux 8y ago
I think a lot of Russian authors are pretty to-the-point. Turgenev, Chekhov and Tolstoy come to mind, as opposed to e.g. Gogol who has a more playful style and can write pages about anything and everything.
- mikestew 8y agoTolstoy’s best-known work is the poster child for long reads, and at the forefront of my mind when I wrote the sentence. I feel I’m being trolled. :-)
- gnulinux 8y agoI didn't know we were discussing "long" I thought it was about writing 5 pages on something that can be written in 1 page (did you read OC?). I would say Tolstoy's writing style cannot be characterized as such. Tolstoy's work are long but they cover a whole lot, information density is very high.
- akanet 8y agoI, and I think probably many others, would disagree. Tolstoy is a lot of things, but to-the-point is not one of them.