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4.31 AVERAGE
4.31 AVERAGE
slow-paced
challenging
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
“Hurrah for Karamazov!”
MAN. the most challenging book i have ever read, long and wordy and complex, but so so so damn good. people say this is the greatest novel of all time and there is a great amount of weight that comes with that title, but holy shit they might be right. truly a “towering masterpiece of literature”
MAN. the most challenging book i have ever read, long and wordy and complex, but so so so damn good. people say this is the greatest novel of all time and there is a great amount of weight that comes with that title, but holy shit they might be right. truly a “towering masterpiece of literature”
There are flashes of brilliance here, but there are also pockets of sentimentality that make me cringe. I enjoyed the novel, but I have to stop short of calling it a masterpiece. I don't always agree with Vladimir Nabokov, but I think he nails it in [b:Lectures on Russian Literature|631671|Lectures on Russian Literature|Vladimir Nabokov|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1328876450s/631671.jpg|956479]:
Dostoyevsky as we know is a great seeker after truth, a genius of spiritual morbidity, but as we also know he is not a great writer in the sense Tolstoy, Pushkin and Chekhov are. And, I repeat, not because the world he creates is unreal -all the worlds of writers are unreal - but because it is created too hastily without any sense of that harmony and economy which the most irrational masterpiece is bound to comply with (in order to be a masterpiece). Indeed, in a sense Dostoyevsky is much too rational in his crude methods, and though his facts are but spiritual facts and his characters mere ideas in the likeness of people, their interplay and development are actuated by the mechanical methods of the earthbound and conventional novels of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Dostoyevsky as we know is a great seeker after truth, a genius of spiritual morbidity, but as we also know he is not a great writer in the sense Tolstoy, Pushkin and Chekhov are. And, I repeat, not because the world he creates is unreal -all the worlds of writers are unreal - but because it is created too hastily without any sense of that harmony and economy which the most irrational masterpiece is bound to comply with (in order to be a masterpiece). Indeed, in a sense Dostoyevsky is much too rational in his crude methods, and though his facts are but spiritual facts and his characters mere ideas in the likeness of people, their interplay and development are actuated by the mechanical methods of the earthbound and conventional novels of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Loveable characters:
Yes
protect Aloysha at all costs <3
challenging
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character