Whenever I start to read something by Dostojevsky, after a few pages I complitely lose focus and start thinking about naked russian teen girls, instead of concentrated on the finer details of the life of Stephan Trofimovitsh Verhovenski or some such. Yes, my eyes are reading the lines, but I pay no attention to them as my mind is filled with russian teen girls WTF ??? THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN WITH OTHER AUTHORS
First fap to Russian teen girls. Then after coming you should feel that post-masturbation depression/whatever. After that it's time for Dostoevsky.
I'm reading The Brothers Karamazov right now, but I'm not exactly making a lot of progress either. It's not really boring or anything, but it's pretty much the first Literature I've ever tried reading.
read "The Idiot" and you WILL be thinking about a 12-year-old fiance sitting on your lap, giggling... just think Ludlum or Melville and you won't find him so wordy... just deeply moody...
I get this with most Russian literature, even gayish stuff like Turgenev with a lot of man-on-man action.
I think it's the attitude of Russians towards women. Westerners aren't used to it, so it bleeds through the pages onto our cocks and hardens us up.
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Anonymous2006-08-03 2:02
10 here, and you know the last thing I really thought of reading Crime and Punishment was Soviet loli.
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Anonymous2006-08-05 14:36
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That's because there wasn't any Soviet loli around at that time. The soviet thing came in the 20th century with Lenin, Stalin and co. Before that, it was simply Russian loli and shota (The tsar Peter I the Great loved them shotas)
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Anonymous2006-08-07 3:42
I think it's easier to read Dostoevsky when you appreciate the magnanimity of his characters and the general theme of the grace of God.
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seconded - short stories are fine for a start >>25
he wasn't "soviet" at the time he designed his first scetch for "Lolita" (it firstly appeared as a short story, when he was in France after moving from Russia), neither when he wrote it - he was US citizein then => NOT SOVIET!!!1
Anyways, >1, try to re-read (or start from) "Crime and Punishment", since it's one of D.'s more "digestable" novels. At least it broke the barrier to his works for me.
nyoron~n.
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Anonymous2006-09-06 0:17
It could be a problem of which translation you're reading. I always thought that the old school Constance Garnet translations were godawful.
(Our decidedly non-soviet friend Nabokov agrees.)
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Anonymous2006-09-10 21:31
First book I read by Dostoevsky was Crime and Punishment earlier this year on recommendation of a friend, after that followed Brothers K which I recently finished, and now I've started on The Idiot. I think had I tried to read Dostoevsky even seven months earlier, or a year, or anything (I started reading D. when I was 18), I wouldn't have been 'ready' and wouldn't have been able to appreciate it. Maybe you are more in favor of appreciating Russian loli, in which case I suggest you try later.
Maybe you should read Lolita or The Enchanter til then
-Lola
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