08-24-2007, 03:06 AM | #1 |
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Why is Russian Literature such a pain in the ass?
I have been trying to read most of the well know classics. I have found this to be a very rewarding experience on the whole. However, I tried to read War and Peace and for the first time in my life I got so bored I stopped reading. I felt bad so I picked it up again a few months later and soldiered on but after about 200 pages I found it so utterly boring that I gave it up. I recently read Crime and Punishment and once again I found it to be a boring drawn out waste of time. I would have stopped reading it too if it hadn't been so short.
I mean come on am I missing something? They teach university courses on russian lit. but my first 2 russian books have sucked. Any suggestions or will The Brothers Karamazoff be more of the same? |
08-24-2007, 03:29 AM | #2 |
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Many years ago I tried working through Crime and Punishment and it just wore me down with boredom. I couldn't finish it.
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08-24-2007, 03:37 AM | #3 |
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My favorite novels are War and Peace and The Brothers Karamazov. Russion literaterure is the best. It influenced even so many great American and British writers. It does take a frame of mind I suppose.
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Can you give me your top two reasons for loving War and Peace? perhaps I will give it a third try. |
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I think the Russian novelists get religion about right (more so Tolstoy than Dostoyevsky).
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The description of the murders and the emotions right after in Crime and Punishment creeped me out. I thought that only a man who had commited a murder could have described it so vividly. It was the 300 pages after that ruined it for me. |
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I started The Brothers Karamazov about a month ago but I never could get into it. It didn't help that I was trying to read it on a business trip when I only had a spare 20 minutes here and there. I'll have to give another try when I have more time to focus on it. |
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I never read War and Peace. Too long. |
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