Did literature peak with Tolstoy?

>Tolstoy
>Tolsti
>Fatty

>Count Tolstoi
>Nore like Cunt Tolstop

ok. ok. wow. just... ok. ever hear of james joyce?

No. There have been many great authors after him. You are just to much of a brainlet to understand them.

>tfw don't speak russian
>tfw can't read tolstoy

>speak
Books can't talk.
I suggest you try reading it.

>Read A Confession
>Crippling depression

Thanks old man

>Tolstoy
>Tolstory
>Toy Story 3

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STPROU
TPROUS

>implying literature is not peaking with John Green as we speak

Meanwhile in Russian literature:
1. Is cold
2. No longer love my wife
3. I miss my baboushka
4. God is dead, what is life
5. Gulag is hard work

Oh well. I'll bight. Longfellow's unread short novel Kavanaugh (a surprise for anyone who deigns) reminded me, in shape, of Tolstoy's great short Cossacks. Otherwise, it IS fair to have this kind of venetation for Tolstoy (or Dickens who, in some ways, is comparable). I, however, do not-- though freely recognize that the three major novels, and well over half the minor novels are all 'great'--

reddit is that way

10/10

In terms of "body of work," maybe nobody after Tolstoy has been as great. But to say that literature peaked with Tolstoy is to ignore the novels and stories (and plays) as good or better that were written after him.

A mountain Ridge has many peaks.

wtf was anna karenina all about anyway? A girl I know who read it told me it was a tragic story about love and hate.

1. Shakespeare
2. Proust
3. Cervantes
4. Goethe
5. Homer

prove me wrong

it's about farming and provincial politics

Swap 2 and 3, and allow Homer to be re-absorbed back into the negative, or rather the contextual, space (where, presumably, God love it, the Vulgate is) and there'd be no need to. Pretty much.

Gogol and Dante.

JOYCE
FLAUBERT

it's actually about ethics in russian agriculture

>implying it didn't peak with Shakespeare

I'd have to read first and this Veeky Forums so no lol

It's about scraggly old muzhiks beating the iron, pounding it, kneading it.

Get with it bro.

;^)

What characters are good, which are bad?... general terms? Is Anna a tragic hero tortured by her husband's furtive malice? Is Stephan Oblonsky just too cool for dolly?

How much I liked each character:
Levin>Stephan>The Prince>Dolly>Anna>Vronsky>Alexei, can't remember anymore, Laska the doggo was good as well, Tolstoy even gave him some doggy thoughts. Stephan falls in love with every woman he meets but is too good natured not to like, can't really blame Anna for cucking her ugly cold husband (if he was a living person in the 21st century he definitely would have been a Veeky Forums user).

Ah fuck forgot Kitty, definitely marriage material, second nicest character after Levin.

They're all good characters. Part of what makes the book so good is that Tolstoy makes them all incredibly realistic. They all have their bad qualities and their good qualities. E.g. there are parts where you hate Anna for being a slut, then later you sympathise with her. Same with Alexi (Anna's husband) who isn't very charismatic, but has some nice moments.

My favourite character was probably Levin though.

Are Tolstoy's other works just as good as his two greatest works?

Should I go with Resurrection next?

What about these? Any thoughts?
>The Death of Ivan Ilyich
>The Kreutzer Sonata
>Hajid Murat
>The Cossacks
>Family Happiness
>Sevastopol Sketches

I might pick up the Everyman's collection.

That's a complaint someone who has never read Tolstoy would have. He is actually very sparing with his words. Chapters are only 2-3 pages long usually, and a lot usually happens in those 2-3 pages.

Resurrection is just as good as AK and WaP. But then again I fell for the Jesus meme.

Boooooooooooooring

Nobody cares who you think is marriageable you 40 year old neckbeard.

t. r

Tolstoy is based, but you're right. In fact, most of the military descriptions are boring as hell.

woman spotted

kekted

go with ivan ilyich

then resurrection and hadji murat

after that pick any of kreutzer, cossacks, etc

cossacks is my personal favorite

>cossacks is my personal favorite

Really? What do you like so much about it?

>The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Very forgettable, for some reason.

You wish.

The Kingdom of God is Within you is interesting.

Tolstoy makes religion patrician.

It's been all downhill since the Quixote

Read the first page of Maupassant's Boule de Suif.

Muzhik Tier:
Muzhik that kneads the iron
Muzhik with the sack
Regular, real world Muzhiks
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God Tier:
Levin
Laska
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High Tier:
Dolly
Kitty
Kozynshev ( Veeky Forums )
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Good Tier:
Varenka
Nikolaevna
Seryozha
Anna
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Meh Tier:
Nikolai
Yashvin
Ivanovna
Landau ( /x/ )
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Fuckboy Tier
Vronsky
Stiva ( /s/ )
Betsy
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Literal Cuckold Tier:
Alexei Alexandrovich