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[OU81myth2many]

What a glorious writer. Few could match his ability to describe in detail the most mundane of objects and activities. His life was so paradoxical and even hypocritical. He aspired to live an almost unreachable Christianity and yet treated his wife very poorly. An enigmatic character, to say the least. If his longer books appear daunting, dip into his short stories. You will not regret it.

[MariThePoet]

the greatest writer of all times, yes

I am happy to see Him :)

THANK YOU.

[glakshmiratan]

@3439uahset

I don't think you have to apologize..What Fyodor did is echo the voice of this age. Tolstoy would have been hailed as a monument in the middle ages---But this age, we are all the children of Byron, and Dostoevsky understood that. Like Lermontov, Pushkin and Goncharov, he brought forth Byron in his books--and we love him for it

[glakshmiratan]

I might be the only one, but I prefer Tolstoy's short stories to his 3 big novels. Death o Ivan Ilych, Master and Man, Father Sergius are my top 3 Tolstoy fiction stuff. I love his Confessions. I prefer Jean's Confessions, but Tolstoy's is certainly a step up from Augustine

I just got 3 plays by Tolstoy. Excited to read it--I as disappointed by his trilogy, childhood, adol...Hope this pans out better

Oh, by the way, I hate his What is Art? Thought the great soul missed the point

[Eladas334]

My favourite Tolstoy novels are War and Peace, Resurrection and Anne Karenina.

My favourite Dostoevsky works are Devils, Memoirs from the House of the Dead and Crime and Punishment. I got along reasonably well with The Idiot, but I hated The Brothers Karamazov. Like C.S. Lewis, I respect Dostoevsky's religion, but please, Fyodor, don't stick it down our throats.

[Eladas334]

I think that it's unfair to compare Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. They were two very different author who wrote in two very different fields, as anybody who's read them will know.

[gloi2]

tolstoy is angel dost is fucktard,thats the different

[ruderevival]

your saying tolstoy was a muslim?

[loveandonions]

thanks for posting this. i love tolstoy's work, both the long and short stories. for newcomers to his ideas and incomparable gift for detail and psychological description, check out The Death of Ivan Ilych, and the Kreutzer Sonata. Both are fairly short, very entertaining, and intellectually provocative.

I also like Dostoyevsky alot. Too bad the two writers never met in real life.

[bigassballsyes]

Just finnished WnP, amazing piece of work. Nikolai Gogol is another great, a writer these guys respected also, I love his work.