Thoughts on Dostoevsky?

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Thoughts on Dostoevsky? Anonymous 2021-05-08 (Sat) 06:50:59 No.5615

Writer worth reading or reactionary garbage?

Lenin apparently wasn't a fan; from "The Other Lenin" by Alexander Maysuryan:
> ["Demons" is] Evidently reactionary filth, like Krestovsky's "Flock of Panurge", I have absolutely no desire to waste time on it. I have no need for such literature; what could it possibly give me? […] I have no free time for this garbage."
Demons isn't the only book he doesn't like:
>I am familiar with the content of both these pungent works, and that is more than enough for me. I just about began reading the "Brothers Karamazov" and then dropped it: the scenes in the monastery made me sick."

However, Stalin apparently enjoyed Dostoevsky greatly. He had a heavily annotated copy of "The Brothers Karamasov" and at least once referred to Dostoevsky as a "great philosopher." Quote:
> [Dostoevsky is] a great writer and a great reactionary. We don't publish him because he is a bad influence on the youth. But he is a great author.

Anonymous 2021-05-10 (Mon) 14:48:57 No.5662

Bump.
>>5615
I don't have much to add, but I really liked "The Idiot" when I read it in high school. My main takeaway from that and "Crime and Punishment" was his focus on psychology, which I assume was fairly novel for when Dostoevsky was writing. Surprised to learn that Stalin was a fan.

Anonymous 2021-05-11 (Tue) 03:45:01 No.5670

>>5615
>We don't publish him because he is a bad influence on the youth. But he is a great author.
KEK

Anonymous 2021-05-11 (Tue) 06:25:57 No.5673

I've read Notes from Underground, I thought it would be about some loser but that guy had a better life than I do.

Anonymous 2021-05-11 (Tue) 07:06:27 No.5674

>>5673
>that guy had a better life than I do.
in what way

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