dunno, Crime and Punishment was kinda shitty

>>25622635 He didn't write that

I would rather read Gogol, but there are no good e-book translations of him.

>>25622675 There are literally 10s of different translations of Gogol into German.

>>25622675 No decent .pdfs anywhere on Anna's Archive or Soulseek?

>>25622680 Don't read e-books, they're bad for your eyes.

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Chekkov, Gogol > short stories by Tolstoy and Dostoevsky > normal works of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky

>>25622727 zoomer attention span

>>25622680 <pdf I'll never understand boomers.

I prefer Dostoevsky. The Brothers Karamazov is the greatest book ever written. Anna Karenina is the second best.

>>25622741 Read Resurrection.

>>25622728 Nah. I'm soon to be 35 and read a lot of russian literature. Truth is, brevity is the sister of talent and real genius is the ability to describe complex things by simple language without losing the tint of correctness.

>>25622749 Length of a book and complexity of the language are two different things.

>>25622750 Somewhat. Yet most if not all religious teachings are fables, tales and stories, not novels.

>>25622680 >>25622675 I've downloaded some but they all have shitty text formation on my kindle

>>25622636 Zamgars are retarded halfliterate subhumans from village. Don‘t discuss high matters with them.

>>25622812 >Zamgars Причина тряски, порк? Корёжит тебя?

>>25622728 I agree with him. I can not read war and peace and dostoevskyi. It is too long. Gogols stories are more entertainment.

>>25622816 >рвоньк Ок

>>25622827 I'm interested in art rather than entertainment, that's why I read Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.

>>25622833 If I remember it right Tolstoy gives a lot of descriptive details why dostoyevskyi is more of a philosopher.

>>25622833 >I'm interested in art rather than entertainment Short stories are better for art. Long stories are boring, because they only milk one specific theme over hundreds of pages. It's intellectual masturbation to write long stories.

He called war and peace "manyword nonsense"

Harry Potter is unironically better

>>25622909 If you have iq of underaged.

No, Leo Tolstoy wrote very boring. I haven't read it, though. He was just hyped up. There are more interesting Russian writers.

>>25622895 Low IQ

I'm more impressed by the likes of Michelangelo

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>>25622954 Kholmogorov>Dontsova>Zorichi>Lukyanenko>...shit>piss...>Tolstoi>Dostoevskiy

>>25622618 >The greatest writer who has ever lived? such discussions are useless if you enjoy his writings the most, he is the greatest writer to you if you enjoy some pokemon fanfiction author the most, he is the greatest writer to you it won't change it someone proclaims that Tolkien is the greatest writer ever, I still did not particualrly like LOTR

for me, the writer who made the biggest impression on my psyche was a spic charlatan cult leader

Yes I think War and Peace is the best book ever written, however you need to read the version where you clearly see which part was written in Russian and which in French, and not just have everything translated to English. I heard many people critize Tolstoy, because there is too of his own opinions about the world included in the book, too much moralizing. But this is exactly why I'm a huge fan of Tolstoy. I think an author should speak his mind clearly. I go to theater sometimes and it annoys me how a play discusses some real life issue, and the author doesn't want to state what is his opinion about who is wrong and who is right, and what he would do about it!! It's seen as unartistic, and beneath them!!! That's ridiculous!!! It's cowardly and lazy!!!

I like the other Tolstoy - Tema Lebedev's grandpa, the one who translated Buratino

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The Holy Spirit is the greatest writer who ever lived You don't need more

Shut the fuck up, Igor. You've never read a book in your life.

my fav movie when i was a little boy

Not even the top 3 of the greatest Russian writers of the XIX century.

>>25622980 > Kholmogorov>Dontsova>Zorichi>Lukyanenko Literally who?

He was a keen observer of human psychology, but cannot be considered superior in this latter aspect to Montaigne, Machiavelli, the French moralists, Leopardi, Nietzsche, etc. As for his stories, they are indeed very good. I believe Anna Karenina, in particular, is a very great novel, but I fail to see how it "rises above" the other very good novels that were written around the same era, including those of Stendhal, Conrad, Flaubert, Balzac, Dickens etc. It seems to be a question of personal preference, and my preference lies with Flaubert and Dickens for style, and Conrad for subject matter.

Neil Gaiman is the best, nothing beats the sandman