#Russian literature

[metamorphesque]

"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

[aroundmes1tsthen1ght]

edited, (x).

“Do not allow me to condemn or to speak of what I do not know or do not understand.”

— Anton Chekhov, from Notebooks

[dostovs]

[fatherdmitri]

my psychiatrist just diagnosed me with 19th century russian literature character

[thornfield-library]

After recently having finished Nikolai Gogol’s short story, The Nose, I wish that we could have been given a more detailed description of what the nose actually looks like, specifically in scenes where the nose is wearing a uniform. I understand why Kovalev only pays attention to his clothing, after all, he is humiliated that a walking, talking, nose could have a higher rank than he does. The story as a whole has a lot to do with society only looking at the clothing on one’s back and what rank and respectability that means that person deserves rather than seeing the person underneath the clothes. But I still do wish I could fully visualize what Gogol had in mind for his sentient nose, even if it was just a bit more detailed

Bookish Question of the Week:

Regardless of whether you're a writer or not, pick a book that you would want to rewrite or expand upon. Maybe you want to add a new ending, change a character's traits, remove a scene you disliked, etc. Talk about what you would change.

[intothedreamverse]

White Nights, Fyodor Dostoevsky

[sutekooooo]

Pro and Contra

Hope you enjoy💕😈🕊

[joytri]

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

[creantzy]

Back with a redraw of these losers

[sovietpostcards]

[metamorphesque]

"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

[mournfulroses]

Marina Tsvetaeva, from The Essential Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva; "For Anna Akhmatova,"

[vile-wizard]

[dostovs]

[vintage-russia]

Russian fairytale "The Frog Princess" (1914)

[deadpoet-skull]

" It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader. "

- Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights