!bookworms !classics what's some “high-browed” literature you can't stand or just can't “get” despite the critical acclaim?

https://twitter.com/SimonSchfe45703/status/1799016360238088400

lmao @ humanities

(IDK the context of this and he might be replying to another philosopher and applying their logic to show something is ridiculous but that doesn't help my agenda so that possibility getting ignored)

To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.

!bookworms !classics

I'm started readings some Chekhov's short-stories. First one was “The Kiss”.

!bookworms !classics

What are your hot takes on some of “The Great Books”, those considered part of the Western Canon. I'm not limiting it to the Enciclopedia Britannica volumes, you can talk about any of the renowned works on 19th and 20th century literature.

Not gonna elaborate.

!bookworms thoughts?

Here is Vladimir Nabokov's on why Dostoyevsky was a writer

https://old.reddit.com/r/literature/comments/17n8lrt/why_did_nabakov_dislike_dostoyevsky_so_much/

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/23/magazine/nabokov-on-dostoyevsky.html

@TR

One of the key facts about Nabokov is that he was a cranky old man his whole life.

Lmao

Hemingway talks about Dostoyevsky's unique style quite a lot in A Moveable Feast.

One famous quote is: “I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and yet make you feel so deeply.”