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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If you want to go with 19th cent lit, might as well start with Gogol
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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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Thanks for the food for thought though
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The Autist 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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I'm reading The Idiot right now at its bretty good
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