Dostoevsky is objectively better than Tolstoy

Discuss.

He is

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i objectively fucked your mom lol

You're right, what is there to discuss?

Tolstoy's still great though.

Well that's wrapped up.

Tolstoy had a much better ability to convey exactly lol jk these

Yup. Tolstoy is the worst "best writer of all time" of all time

doesn't sound very objective if you can't even clarify why.
I do like Doesto better though.

It's not that Tolstoy is inept at portraying inner motivations (see "Master and Man" and "Kreutzer Sonata") he just doesn't have Dostoyevsky's genius at portraying psychological abnormalities (Underground Man) and narcissism.

These sides of mine

>Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his reactionary journalism seriously.

>The Double. His best work, though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's "Nose."
>The Brothers Karamazov. Dislike it intensely.
>Crime and Punishment. Dislike it intensely. Ghastly rigmarole.

What's it like being unable to form an opinion of your own?

>Ghastly rigmarole.

Tolstoy, Leo. A favorite between the ages of 10 and 15, and thereafter. Read complete works between 14 and 15. Nobody takes his utilitarian moralism seriously. A genius.

Anna Karenina. Incomparable prose artistry. The supreme masterpiece of 19th-century literature.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich. A close second to Anna Karenina.
Resurrection. Detest it.
The Kreutzer Sonata. Detest it.
War and Peace. A little too long. A rollicking historical novel written for the general reader, specifically for the young. Artistically unsatisfying. Cumbersome messages, didactic interludes, artificial coincidences. Uncritical of its historical sources.

What's it like having not lurked this board for a while before posting?

You tell me, friend

He's obviously been here long enough to recognize nabokovs criticism and realize you copied it verbatim without any of your own thought or opinion.

It's a meme and wasn't meant in earnest.

>Nabokov's opinion is a meme
You are the one that should lurk more.

Cancer thread, sage and report

>Suggesting it doesn't appear in every Dostoevsky thread on /lit
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He's objectively better because he was a man of God.

>A thread about literature.
>Starting a Dosto vs Tolstoy discussion.

Vs.

>That one retard that spams John Green threads.

I agree on Anna Karenina being the best Tolstoy book by far.

What about Chekhov? How does he compare with these two?

Even intellectuals argue childishly about who's better.

Apples are objectively better than oranges