Why is Russian literature so fucking good?

why is Russian literature so fucking good?

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Because.

suffering

because their tv blows

Soul

Because it shatters you in all the right ways and offers quite a catharsis.

Name some good Russian writers aside from the three or four obvious ones everybody circlejerks like Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, etc.

There are at least 6 russian writers that are frequently circlejerked around.

fag

that's a reader's perspective, I think OP is asking from the writer/ cultural landscape.

Strong and intertwined suffering and faith makes for a perfect storm.

Also Russian is an exquisite language, thoroughly able in mapping both earth and sky while having melody.


The 19th century sure was a bad time for TV shows.

>20th russian/soviet tv blows

(you)

Defamiliarization 101

Turgenev, Gogol, Solzhenitsyn

>God tier
Russian and British literature
>Okay tier
German, Austrian and Japanese literature
>gaynigger tier
American literature

What about ascended scandinavian literature?

-Anna Akhmatova
-Vasily Aksyonov
-Leonid Andreyev
-Mikhail Artsybashev
-Isaac Babel
-Andrei Bely
-Andrei Bitov
-Ivan Bunin
-Lydia Chukovskaya
-Sergei Dovlatov
-Venedikt Erofeev
-Afanasy Fet
-Vsevolod Garshin
-Aleksander Griboyedov
-Vasily Grossman
-Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov
-Daniil Kharms
-Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
-Mikhail Kuzmin
-Nikolai Leskov
-Vladimir Makanin
-Yuri Mamleev
-Osip Mandelstam
-Vladimir Mayakovsky
-Yury Olesha
-Nikolai Ostrovsky
-Victor Pelevin
-Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
-Boris Pilnyak
-Andrei Platonov
-Zakhar Prilepin
-Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
-Victor Serge
-Varlam Shalamov
-Mikhail Sholokhov
-Fyodor Sologub
-Vladimir Sorokin
-Tatyana Tolstaya
-Lyudmila Ulitskaya
-Mikhail Zoshchenko

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Valery Briusov

The Strugatsky brothers

I'm so jealous of that shelf

>jealous of another mans possessions
Faggot

Is there a more underrated Russian author than Bely?

Thoughts on The Madhouse by Zinoviev?

this

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