The two year old's guide to Dostoevsky

oh yeah the biting the fingers off! oh man!

I really want to read this, but I keep telling myself I need to read it in the original. However, reading Dostoevsky is much, much harder than chatting about work and blokes and stuff which is all I get to do in Russian these days. As a result I never finished it, which is silly. But it also feels silly to read it in English when I could tackle it in Russian if only I had either endless patience and capacity for filling in from context, or the dictionary by my bed and endless time.

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1243205.ece

this was not really 'about' dostoevsky but it's a really really good read though long

So this is where the ILB borad description came from. Who knew?

E5 is now reading notes from underground, and also plans to write a parody entitled notes from underpound by fydo dogstoevsky

oh yeah the biting the fingers off! oh man!

― send Lawyers (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, December 6, 2012 11:57 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

UGH STILL THIS SCENE. it's like the scene in the basement bar in inglourious basterds but with god.

Lol, just coming to this thread now. I'm ready to go back and belatedly read and re-read Dostoevsky (I had the same post-high school Nabokov induced snobbery noted above).

I was talking with my wife about reading more about the historical context in which he wrote alongside the novels. Has anyone read any of Joseph Frank's books on him? Or the abridged, one-volume version? The consensus seems to be that they're the best - English language, at least - on D and his world.

https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8976.html

E5 is now reading notes from underground, and also plans to write a parody entitled notes from underpound by fydo dogstoevsky

― unprepared guitar (Edward III), Saturday, May 4, 2013 3:47 PM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

underrated update

holy shit this kid must be in high school now

I've read most of the abridged version. It's a combination of biography and literary analysis. The bio stuff is great, he had a wild life. The lit crit stuff is slower going and bogged me down a bit.

oh so THIS is where "Dusty Dusty Him Sad" comes from!

classic

Nice, thanks Moodles, think I'll pick it up.

oh so THIS is where "Dusty Dusty Him Sad" comes from!

― Οὖτις

!!!

been wondering for a while ...

Just started Demons the other day. First time. Majorly important writer to me on the basis of The Bros K alone, but it's been a few years since I've read any FD and I'm very much enjoying it.

sad man in him room is now an injoke between me and some of my record collector friends, used to describe a certain style of singer-songwriter music.

omg i did not know either, and now i do. but it so long past, so even now, the remembering is a kind of shame for me

Anyone read the new Katz Brothers K translation?

Demons an absolutely stunning book

My injoke with friends on singer-songwriters is saying “someone shoulda bought this bloke/lass a diary” halfway through the song. I’d say the same for dusty dusty, but he didn’t even spare us from his diary (diary of a writer, also great, well worth reading if you like dusty)

all time classic thread