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Dostoyevsky wrote the most boring unpalatable stuff i had the misfortunate to read in school. Nabokov’s assessment was 100% correct.
by yatopifo 2y ago
Dostoyevsky wrote the most boring unpalatable stuff i had the misfortunate to read in school. Nabokov’s assessment was 100% correct.
- zdragnar 2y agoNot by a long shot. War and peace is the classic long read, but outside of Russian literature you also get authors like Victor Hugo and Les Miserables. Also, depending on your tastes, Charlotte Bronte and other similar period writers were equally bland or significant.
- throwup238 2y agoOr Proust’s seven volumes.
- whythre 2y agoI read Crime and Punishment as a teenager and I enjoyed it quite a bit. Raskolnikov’s misadventures are not ‘fun’ but as a psychological exploration of guilt (or lack thereof), it was very interesting. I like Notes from the Underground and his other short stories (like the Double) even more.
- greenie_beans 2y agoi disagree. i'm reading the brothers karamazov right now and i find it so entertaining. such rich drama and conflict.