To discuss and recommend authors and books from the 20th century in general.
A few great modern authors that come to mind and who’s works I’m quite familiarized are Albert Camus, Vladimir Nabokov, F Scott Fitzgerald, Jorge Luis Borges and even though they are still alive and publishing Mario Vargas Llosa (his older works are fantastic) and Kazuo Ishiguro (haven’t read Ishiguro yet, but i have “never let me go” on my reading list)
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I'm looking to get into some classic Russian lit. Should I read Tolstoy or Dostoevsky first?
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I'm reading The Idiot right now at its bretty good
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Do different translations make a huge difference?
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Supposedly yes, and the worst part is I have no idea how good the translations i have are, I read him years ago and downloaded some old free translation. I don’t speak russian, but apparently the idioms used by the author are kind of lost in translation. If it is anything like Moby Dic it’s kind of a problem as I can’t imagine reading a Moby Dic portuguese translation, like half of the book’s aesthetic is lost.
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Hmm good to know. I'll have to research it then
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Use the Pevear/Volokhonsky translations, they've done all the majors works from Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (In addition to Gogol and Chekov)
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Oh sorry can't tell you about that, I'm proficient in moon runes so I'm reading it in original language
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Also
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Я не знал, что ты умеешь читать по-русски. EDIT: God darn it way to bypass caps doesn't work for other alphabets
TRANS LIVES MATTER YOU BIGOTED CHUDS
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Дуде бусси лмао
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That’s 19th century lit, but great lit nevertheless. Both authors are very different. Tolstoy was an aristocratic “christian anarchist”, his books are all about the russian upper class. War and Peace for instance starts in 1805 and goes all the way to 1820, through the napoleonic wars and includes lots of romance and numerous characters. Dostoesvky was a reactionary russian conservative who wrote mainly about the plight of the common people mixed with his philosophical ideas, i joked along with another dramanaut on the last thread about him being "incelcore literature", he's great and better than Tolstoy imo, but some of his main characters do look and talk like 4chan users.
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I was hoping no one would notice
Thanks for the food for thought though
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The Neurodivergent is pretty great.
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Notes from the underground?
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Was referring to The Idiot, havent read that one
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I personally love Dostoevksy and don't care much about Tolstoy.
The Idiot by Doestoevksy is probably the closest thing I have to a favorite book. As someone mentioned above, his dialogues are somewhat weird/unrealistic, but it's overall great nonetheless
I would heavily recommed both Crime & punishment and The Idiot
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Rodion from C&P comparing himself to Napoleon was peak delusional
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Chad Napoleon causes hundreds of thousands of deaths and everyone worship him
x virgin student who murders one old jewish woman and is plagued by guilt 
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Was she
? I remember she was a loan shark described as “rich as a jew”, but don’t recall if she was actually a member of the Tribe 
He was also kind of a c*nt to Razumikhin who was such a bro the entire book.
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I don't remember tbh, it's been almost 10 years since I read it
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I think I'm going to read The Idiot first once I figure out which translation is best
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I recently started going down this rabbit hole and from what I can tell people seem to recommend translations done by Pevear and Volokhonsky
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Pevear and Volokhonsky are pretty much the best quality you can get for the Russian authors.
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If you want to go with 19th cent lit, might as well start with Gogol
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