TWO MEN ENTER!

ONE MAN LEAVES!

Dostoevsky. The Brothers Karamazov is one of the strangest things I've ever read.

haven't read enough Tolstoy yet to weigh in on this.

Eierdiebe wrote:haven't read enough Tolstoy yet to weigh in on this.

Me either. Dostoevsky is the shit, though. If you are feeling misanthropic...

Dostevoesky.

Notes from the Underground, Brothers Karamazov. Need I say more?

I could never get into Tolstoy. It was just too much for me at the time of attempt. Always meant to go back and check it out but...

Tolstoy gets no love!

I should point out that Nabokov absolutely hated Dostoevsky.

Dostoevsky...Crime and Punishment was absolutely great...The Brothers Karamazov was a little disappointing though...i haven't read anything else yet...as for Tolstoy years ago i tried to make it through one of his "short" stories and only got halfway through...i'm more resilient now, i plan on trying that "The Death of Ivan Ilych" and Other Stories again in the near future...we'll see if i change my mind...i can't see any of his stuff being as good as Crime and Punishment though...

as for Nabokov, you know he absolutely hated EVERYTHING...it's almost pointless to single any one writer out...even with the ones he DID like, his compliments were generally somewhat backhanded dealing with one of X's stuff being great and the other half being terrible...not a man of many kind words (as far as literature goes...)

connor wrote:Tolstoy gets no love!

Maybe this thread should diverge over to "recommend some Tolstoy"...

i don't think Dos. is misanthropic. if anything he lieks people ("most people") too much. i consider him a very conservative writer, actually. he shouldn't be confused at all with his most liberated, out-there characters. at one point he may have been like raskolnikov or ivan, but you can tell from the way he presents these chacters that their view poitns are far removed from his own.

Eierdiebe wrote:i don't think Dos. is misanthropic. if anything he lieks people ("most people") too much.

Usually that is the case. 'Misanthropy' is the symptom. Celine is a shining example of this, even through the interpretations...