Where does Tolstoy objectively rank?

Where does Tolstoy objectively rank?

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below dosto

>objectively
what is this? 2014 Yea Forums?

Above any burger, that's for sure.

Well his fg% is lacking this season but he really seems to have found his shot beyond the arc.

In the forest, it seems

t. burger

As someone who has read both of them in the original, I can assure you that William Gass was a better prose stylist than Tolstoy

Prose style is not everything, you know.

I actually pity Gass for wasting 26 years in a book like The Tunnel, when he could have written literature that actually has human understanding and long lasting impact.

>human understanding and long lasting impact

cringe

He's a big guy

And yet nobody reads The Tunnel, it’s a mere curiosity, while War and Peace and Anna Karenina are widely read and loved by the public and considered to be some of the greatest novels of all time by all critics.

> implying anyone here has the ability to rank Tolstoy
Heh.

Greatest novelist. Sixth greatest writer of all time

>appealing to the public
Lmfao what

I’m not sure who you’d rank above him, but I think I’d agree. For me, he comes very close to absolutely perfect. Perhaps equal with Shakespeare and Dante.

Oй дa иди нaхyй.

Below Shakespeare ;)

1. Shakespeare
2. Dante
3. Homer
4. Virgil
5. Goethe
6. Tolstoy
Is probably a traditional ranking. But what do I know, I'm a massive gay.

Shakespeare is nowhere near the top 10. He is a high school indoctrinated meme. MAYBE top 50

This is pretty accurate and if you're looking for anything else you're going to be forcing it. Voltaire, Schopenhauer, and a part of Nietzsche would keep the top three as is (maybe even scooting Virgil up a bit and Goethe, too). Shakespeare can almost in consensus stay at the top unless you talk to Tolstoy. Unfortunately to rank Tolstoy we can't turn to the thinkers I've listed, and the same goes for Proust and Joyce. But I'd stick all three of these guys right next to each other and somewhere near the top.

Tolstoy is superior to all of thembut Shakespeare. War and Pece is greater than the Iliad. Goethe nd Virgil then...are you kidding?

Caм иди нaхyй, нeocилятop

cringe

>Voltaire, Schopenhauer, and a part of Nietzsche

Yikes

>2. Dante

I can understand why he is admired, but no mtter how much I force myself I simply cant love him. He isfar too cold and somwhat devoided of a real understanding of humanity.

He is a master of rhyme, form, economy and simmetry, though (but his smaller poems and sonnets are mediocre).

for you