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Is this peak Russian literature?

>> No.16125443

>>16125313

I really like that it was never properly finished, the Dante's Inferno parallel shtick would have been interesting but in it's unfinished state its a fantastic moral comedy, I haven't laughed reading a book so hard since reading Celine.

>> No.16125462

>>16125313
It is among those at the top of the peak, certainly.

>> No.16125475

I prefer it to Dosto, but it would probably be hard to argue that it's better than Tolstoy

>> No.16125529

i'm reading dostoevsky; what are some other russian authors worth reading?

>> No.16125550

>>16125529
Chekhov,Pushkin,Tolstoy,Grossman

>> No.16125554

>>16125550
thank you

>> No.16125558

>>16125529
lermontov, tolstoy, chekhov, turgenev
NOT BULGAKOV
NOT SOLZHENITSYN
the above two are embarrassing MIDWIT literature - caution

>> No.16125560

>>16125313
i really wanna read this

>> No.16125564

>>16125529
Bely

>> No.16125585

>>16125558
Solzhenitsyn is a great writer, Ivan Denisovich is one of my favorite novels
Bulgalov is constantly on lit top 100s and M&M is considered by all to be an amazing work

>> No.16125641

>>16125558
Solzhenitsyn Is definitely a mediocre writer propped up by glownigger nonsense, but Bulgakov is god-tier

>> No.16125901

It is the great epic of the last 500 years. Successor of Homer and Dante

>> No.16125920

>>16125901
I'm curious why you rate it so highly

>> No.16126211

>>16125313
good question. very few writers address this issue. dead souls, NPCs, normies, zombies, tyrants (carlos castaneda), dead (jesus christ, let dead bury their dead), house animals (Nietzsche).

>> No.16126338

>>16125920
The only successful attempt by a genius writer to build a colossal epic poem, only this time in prose (apt given the onset of the age of the novel), in a synthesis of the picaresque novel and a national epic, of satire and poetry, an ode to the indomitable yet all too flawed spirit of the Russian everyman and his ultimate apotheosis (inevitable, but ironically ellipted by the text's incompleteness).

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16126341

for me it's Sologub

>> No.16126477

Who are the best Gogol and Pushkin translators?

>> No.16126794

>>16125529
Read Tolstoy next he's probably the best russian writter. Zoomers seem to forget about him and just stick to Dostoyevsky

>> No.16126918

>>16125529
Try looking into Oblomov by Goncharov, which I think, has anticipated the surge of popularity of procrastination as a phenomena. There is also Doctor Zhivago by Pasternak, although I must admit I have not read it yet.