Anonymous
Post 09/15/2023 13:29     Subject: Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy?
Dostoyevsky all day every day. Extremely readable. Tolstoy is so long winded.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2023 20:52     Subject: Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy?
I do love the line “I am a sick man. I am an angry man. I am an unattractive man. There’s something wrong with my liver.”
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2023 20:47     Subject: Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy?
Dostoyevsky, the Brothers K
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2023 20:36     Subject: Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy?
Dostoyevsky. Read The Gambler.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2023 20:27     Subject: Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy?
Dosotevsky
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2023 19:31     Subject: Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy?
Tolstoy. Much more engaging and less dense
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2023 19:30     Subject: Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy?
Dostoyevsky. More intimate storytelling.

But I prefer Gogol over both.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2023 19:18     Subject: Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy?
Tolstoy. His characters are so well developed, and his observations on human nature are brilliant.

But yes, long-winded. I always skip Levin’s treatise on Russian agriculture in the middle of Anna Karenina. Ditto the appendix on history at the end of War and Peace.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2023 19:10     Subject: Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy?
They are such totally different writers ….

My Russian prof had a real thing against Tolstoy—in particular with death of Ivan kitchen she would say “90 pages of a king painful death? For what? Because he was an ordinary man?” (Imagine it in Russian) she found him very, very judgmental and hypocritical.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2023 18:53     Subject: Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy?
Dostoyevsky for his satire / humor - The Nose, The Idiot etc.

Tolstoy is too long winded.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2023 17:31     Subject: Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy?
I honestly like both. Depends on my mood. They are both amazing.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2023 17:27     Subject: Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy?
Probably Dostoyevsky. I love Tolstoy of course, but Dostoyevsky just speaks to me.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2023 17:25     Subject: Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy?
Tolstoy for me!
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2023 17:21     Subject: Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy?
tolstoy: because he wrote the greatest line ever, "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

and The Death of Ivan Ilyich is just such a good story
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2023 17:13     Subject: Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy?
Of these two Russian literary giants, who do you prefer and why?