What's your opinion on this guy?

What's your opinion on this guy?

Who?

he gets it after 40 years and has too many words

retard

Based af.
Despite being a trained engineer, he turned to writing and wrote some of the most perceptive works on the human condition that have ever been written. You won't find anyone that wrote with such razor sharp precision about fundamental moral questions.

Nationalist period of his works is mostly priceless.
Late statism period is mostly worthless.

Dostoevsky is perfect, his words about russian liberals are still actual

>They talked of the abolition of the censorship, and of phonetic spelling, of the substitution of the Latin characters for the Russian alphabet, of some one's having been sent into exile the day before, of some scandal, of the advantage of splitting Russia into nationalities united in a free federation, of the abolition of the army and the navy, of the restoration of Poland as far as the Dnieper, of the peasant reforms, and of the manifestoes, of the abolition of the hereditary principle, of the family, of children, and of priests, of women's rights, of Kraevsky's house, for which no one ever seemed able to forgive Mr. Kraevsky, and so on, and so on.

>Wew look at me only posting a picture and expecting people to know who I mean. Look how edgy and smart I am

>t.Smerdyakov

Everytime some faggot on here says "slave are not white and have contributed nothing!", I always retort that Dostoevksy contributed more than their entire country.

Slavs*

> t. smerdstein

He morphed from liberal westerner to conservative slavophile even though he almost got executed and spent some years in katorga, so he is pretty fine by me.
I've only read Crime & Punishment

Vasily Perov is based too.

Don't you know that's Dostoevsky? Are you retarded?

Dostoevsky was redpilled asf.

He was a wicked Russian. Nothing unusual

The best Russian novelist

>what is google image search
>what is the most famous portrait of one of the most famous novelists in the Western Canon

The ultimate redpill.

The fact, that we`d be better off without Anglo attention, makes me question the value tho.

You are clueless, faggot.

I am of Russian descent from one side of my family anyway. Full muzhik.

Dude, Бecы was one of his most greatest work.
Anyway, he is /ourguy/.

Depressed cuck with graphomania.

>By the way, a Bulgarian I met lately in Moscow," Ivan went on, seeming not to hear his brother's words, "told me about the crimes committed by Turks and Circassians in all parts of Bulgaria through fear of a general rising of the Slavs. They burn villages, murder, outrage women and children, they nail their prisoners by the ears to the fences, leave them so till morning, and in the morning they hang them- all sorts of things you can't imagine. People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.
These Turks took a pleasure in torturing children, -too; cutting the unborn child from the mothers womb, and tossing babies up in the air and catching them on the points of their bayonets before their mothers' eyes. Doing it before the mothers' eyes was what gave zest to the amusement. Here is another scene that I thought very interesting. Imagine a trembling mother with her baby in her arms, a circle of invading Turks around her. They've planned a diversion: they pet the baby, laugh to make it laugh. They succeed, the baby laughs. At that moment a Turk points a pistol four inches from the baby's face. The baby laughs with glee, holds out its little hands to the pistol, and he pulls the trigger in the baby's face and blows out its brains. Artistic, wasn't it? By the way, Turks are particularly fond of sweet things, they say.

>I repeat: after their liberation they will begin their new life by asking Europe—England and Germany, for instance—for guarantees and protection of their freedom, and even though Russia will also be part of the concert of European powers, they will do this precisely as a means of defense against Russia. They will certainly begin by announcing banner she raised among humanity. But those people, especially at the beginning, will be in such a pitiful minority that they will be subject to mockery, hatred, and even political persecution. It will be particularly pleasant for the liberated Slavs to announce and trumpet to the whole world that they are educated peoples capable of attaining the heights of European culture, while Russia is a barbaric country, a gloomy northern colossus) that she does not even have pure Slavic blood and is the oppressor and hater of European civilization.

He got a very different view of western liberalism. In the west the liberal transformation aided by science took several centuries, while in Russia it basically happened in one generation. Half the society turned from traditional religious values basically over night.

be more specific

he criticizes liberals for being phoney western-cock-lickers. fine. but he supported the most reactionary movement, pobedonostsev, who lead romanovs, idiot that they were, to continuously undermine even the slightest push for constitutional representative democracy. not even after 1905 did the Duma

by undermining loyal and moderate forces like kadets, romanovs ensured continous and growing support for radical revolutionists. they ensured october 1917 would happen by undermining constitutionalist opposition.

so dostoevsky was wrong to support pobedonostsev.

*not even after 1905 did the Duma mean much.

>american education

>I didn't know
>expecting everyone to know what you know
You must be a delight to talk to irl.

One of the greatest writers ever

Bolsheviks through russian civil war and great patriotic war turned to russian saviors, it was absolutely based party, cuckdets and esers were shit

maybe, but that wasnt my point. Dostoevsky was more opposed to moderate liberals than to extremists (that he describes in Bessy), forefathers of bolsheviks (he died before the RSDP split). My point was this extreme reactionary viewpoint paved the way to Bolshevik success.

He used to stick too much Christ on every page, he was always too hysterical, he totally lacked a writing style and he always tried to make his novels longer than they should've been because he was paid by the page count.

Overall, Dostoevsky is greatly overrated.

"...we will push drunkenness, debauchery, gossip, we will choke every genius in his infancy, we will drag everyone to the lowest common denominator, absolute equality!"

-Demons, 1877

Was he trying to tell us something Sup Forums?

islam is the religion of the most merciful and powerful, allah, and muhammed (pbuh) is his final messanger

When you reach a certain station in life, there are certain cultural expectations. It would be like not recognizing a portrait of Mark Twain or Hemingway in terms of famous authors. We're not talking anything obscure here. Blame yourself for being illiterate.

Dostoevsky is beautiful and before his time. Demons is one of the funniest (and darkest) political books I've read, and Brothers Karamazov will be something I revisit periodically throughout my life. Spengler said that Dostoevsky's Christianity will be the future of the Russian soul, and the world will be a good place if that is true.

Bless you, burger.

Spengler is too subjective. He didn't understand russian culture and people at all. But his ideas about western civilization are absolutely right.
sry for my poor language

I want to begin with Russian classics. What should I pick?

War and Peace
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Dostoyevski

You would know Spengler's relation to Russian culture better than I would, so I will take your word into consideration, but I liked his assessment of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. And your language is fine, no worries man.

>The Brothers Dostoyevski
start with 'The Nutcracker' by Rachmaninoff

>taking anonymous ramblings into consideration because their signature feature a certain flag
what if I am Russian, but visiting Serbia?

checked

his diaries are awesome

I didn't say to what extent. Are you that butthurt Serb who posts the antifa and Hillary shit?

how dare you
i gave 18 months of my life in the struggle to have Big Don elected
Proud veteran of the meme war

Dostoevsky hated Polaks because to him they were too active and lacked humility like muzhiks. He was simply butthurt and was looking for a justification

also that one CTR shill has been located and exiled to Sweden, worry not

>War and Peace
stories about noble cucks
>Anna Karenina
stories about noble cucks
>Crime and Punishment
poor student want to kill someone to find out if he is possible to do it
best choice from list
>The Brothers
Karamazovs?
stories about god and degeneracy also noble cucks
with fun detective sub-plot.

t. smierdzi:DDD

Most based and one of the greatest authors who ever lived. Meant to finally finish Crime and Punishment. I should do it over the holidays.

But best choice is probably "Diary of a Writer"
It's literally Diary where he talks about old Russia, libturds, jews and things like that

He didn't like Poles because you revolted against Russian government instead of forming glorious pan-Slavic union under power of Russian Imperator because MUH POLAND STRONK MUH COMMONWEALTH

I wish people of West would pay more attention to someone who isn't Dostoevsky of Tolstoy. There is so much more in our priceless literature tradition, including today's books even. I wonder if there is another country where two truly classic writers are alive at the same time.

Pleasure serving with you then.

With quads like that, I have to ask, who would you recommend? I'm always looking for more to read.

Actually he hated you because you were obnoxious assholes all talking about europe but with zero achevements.

Poles have many achievements actually.

Is that Sean Bean in the middle?

>drunken degenerate gambler
>cucked by his brother
>mfw brothers karamazov ends with "HOORAH KARAMAZOV"

poles are of course assholes, but they did had achievements

Crime and Punishment is boring af.

Patrician Dostoevsky is Notes from Underground and The Idiot.

Classic literature we learn in schools:
1) Anton Chekhov "The Cherry Orchard".
2) Ivan Turgenev "Fathers and Sons"
3) Boris Pasternak

Modern literature:
1) Viktor Pelevin, anything you can find.
2) Dmitry Bykov "Justification" book about Sup Forums
3) Zakhar Prilepin.

KEKED

>Ivan Turgenev "Fathers and Sons"
Great book.

A post to enspire a revival of European traditions.

Wtf is it with you guys? Either you have retards who unorinically praise the (((Bolsheviks))) and go full Stalin dindu nuffin or blame all of gommunism on Germany.

Fucking retarded!

>Either you have retards who unorinically praise the (((Bolsheviks))) and go full Stalin dindu nuffin
you would be surprised...

Thank you. Any translations you would recommend above others?

Well, then go back to gommunism, if you like it so much.

Marx made it pretty clear Socialism/Communism could not start in Russia and the he also stressed it would meed to be a world system. Russia was not advanced enough and had not yet even implemented capitalism properly.

This. I know it's not a popular opinion but I think The Idiot is his best work. It hit me the hardest, at any rate.

No Solzhenitsyn?

>It hit me the hardest,
Why?
I haven't read it yet.

>needs a worldwide revolution
>it would need to be a world system
>it does not work in some countries
>in fact it never worked in any countries.

Dazraperma Vladlenovna, you have to go back.

If I'm being academic, I'd say it's because the story's conclusion is Dostoevsky's absolute best work. Tragic and deeply fulfilling.

If I'm being honest, it's because I thoroughly relate to the titular character.

his novels are hate speech against rationalists, atheists, socialists, utilitarians, jews, liberals, progressives, modernists...

>>needs a worldwide revolution
>>it would need to be a world system
>>it does not work in some countries
>>in fact it never worked in any countries.

Communism is a system that supersedes capitalism, how can it exist if capitalism exists?

Probably the best ever, hes deep as fuck. Everyword he wrote its an masterwork.

Dude, thats embarrasing. Its fucking Fiodor.

And the gambler, and Karamazovs brothers, Dosto its amazing.

>unironically advising Pelevin or anyone out there in modern list

Spare them, Vlad.

Don't you mean if capitalism does not exist?

try with the Sukakok Archipielago