I'm a frequenter on the Russian literature imageboard and we had a discussion lately where many posters said Russian literature is completely irrelevant in the western world nowadays.
Have you read any of it?
What are your impressions and opinions?
Have you read any contemporary Russian authors?
Finally, do you consider it an important part of the western literature world, or just some exotic literature like Japanese or Indian authors?
Russian literature is the best. Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoesvsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bely, Zamyatin, Solzhenitsin, etc. And if you go down to second tier writers they're still brilliant
The only poetry I like since ww2ish is Russian, seriously just go to one of their contemporary poets sites and click on random people, it's all great, even somehow they do Modernism and stuff properly
Also learn Russian because it's based
Whenever i meet Russians they seem retarded however
you may like this board if you are learning Russian then
2ch dot hk/bo/
also, any more opinions?
Is this a meme or something? One of the dominant themes of many Russian classics is the saturation of their own culture by the cultures of western society. Of course Russian lit has a place in western culture, anyone who thinks otherwise hasn't actually read it, I've never heard something so uninformed and ridiculous.
>Russian literature is completely irrelevant in the western world nowadays.
Bullshit
>Have you read any contemporary Russian authors?
That, on the other hand... no, and I don't think anyone cares about anything post-revolution (unless you count Svetlana Alexievich as "Russian literature")
In all the time I've spent here I would say that Bros K is in the top 3 most influential(on a personal level) novels among Veeky Forumsizens.
>anything post-revolution
Pasternak, Bulgakov, Solzhenitsyn, Sholochov, Ilf & Petrov oh you're baitimg aren't you
Russian literature are part by extension of the western canon thanks to a plethora of good authors.
Nowadays people masturbate and watch tv all day, but addressing readers, not reading Russian is a sin
heart of a dog is great. i'm reading the master and margarita right now. i loved the first half, but so far the second hasn't been as great-- the episodic adventures of the devil in moscow was much more interesting than margarita turning into a witch.