Why does Veeky Forums jack off to this hack? He's utter shit

noted

What is there to criticize?

You do know what Marx thought about shitty socialist writers vs bourgeois swine like Balzac, right?

What did he think, Porky?

>13 year old user just read dostoyevsky's wikipedia article and found out he wrote a book critical of secularism and revolutionary socialism

uh, wasn't Balzac one of Engel's favorite writers? come on, broe

Sadly this

>Marxists
>cultured

I think he may seem over sensationalized at times. The Idiot took about 4 months to grow on me, because it is definitely not a typical novel.

I fell in love with Crime and Punishment right from the start, but I'm also one of the weird people who sympathizes with Raskolnikov throughout the book.

My biggest issue with C&P has to be that it contradicts itself. A major theme is Raskolnikov thinking he's equal to Napoleon, but we see that he lacks the drive or the moral strength to go through with his actions. The very Christian themes of the novel should in theory reinforce the idea of human pettiness, but the scene structure does the opposite.

As I mentioned before, Dostoevsky is a very dramatic and sensationalizing writer. Nabokov called him a journalist, and at times it may seem like he really was writing for a heightened sense of storytelling. For example, the usage of suddenly is very overplayed in his stories. That just kind of bothers me a little. Everything in his novels seems to be catered towards his protagonist. The Idiot allows this to work best, what with the messiah symbolism and all, but it does sometimes fall flat on his face, most notably in the role of women in C&P. They are only reactors to all of Raskolnivkov's actions. It seems to me like a missed opportunity to show the fallibility of man, but he is the writer and the genius, so what do I know?

There is a poetry to his writing at times. One of my favourite pages in literature is Myshkin's telling of the man who was to face his hanging, and also of the painting of christ in his tomb. Beautiful, just some of the most well-fitting stuff I've ever read.

Ok, I got carried away. Basically, the issue a lot of people have with his work would probably have to be the transparency in the writing. I think that may sometimes be just an issue with not reading enough, or perhaps in the critic's appreciation of the writing process and the influences of the time.

His work holds a lot of unviersal feelings and cultural oopmh that so little else has. There is nothing like it.

>My biggest issue with C&P has to be that it contradicts itself. A major theme is Raskolnikov thinking he's equal to Napoleon, but we see that he lacks the drive or the moral strength to go through with his actions.

Raskolnikov's self-image conflicting with his actions is not a contradiction, it's a crucial element of the book.

What the fuck I hate dostoevsky now