#russian authors

[the-portrait-of-seraph]

Another week I probably won't survive and the author who will get me through it.

I've been revisiting the work of Dostoevsky! It's been especially fun after reading a few biographies and bibliographies on him; I love these little things about reading!

Another book I'd like to recommend (not pictured) is The Sinner and The Saint by Kevin Birmingham! Wonderful biography and account of the murder that inspired Crime and Punishment.

Hope everyone has been doing well! Senior year of high school certainly hasn't been kind to me, but we can handle that.

[freeartzombie]

To live without hope is to cease to live.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Insulted and the Injured"

[rabskinnie]

I was ranting to my friends about the novels that I finished reading and its author and I had to make sure several times that they understood I wasn't talking about the BSD anime characters but the actual novelists and that was the most hilarious thing that happened to me today.

[usatyimysh]

hi for all! especially for the guys from AO3!

don't be surprised if about 50,000 - 100,000 new users come to site.

everything is fine! these are not bots.

it's just russian authors escaping russia's biggest fanfiction site. The country passed a new law to completely ban information about LGBT+ people. And this Russian site banned the publication of works with LGBT themes and promised to give personal data of users to the police.

Russian fanfic authors don't bite.

please be kind to them, they are already scared.

[loiladadiani]

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

[unhingedwomenapologist]

this book is so interesting but it’s hard to binge. anyway love seeing what the past owner found interesting too

[homkamiro]

EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP!!! I need to tell just how running blind fanfiction by @thetriggeredhappy fucked me up

I'm not joking when I say that this is my favourite fic ever made, I literally don't, everything about it is so perfect, so detailed and so emotional,, i cried a lot, i laughed a lot, and I was really amazed by some of the plot twitsts

EVERYONE needs to read it, and if you don't imma bust yo damn kneecaps

[dostoevskyordoesntshe]

[haveyoureadthispoll]

One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunderstandings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator.Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous hero of this enchanting novel evokes the reader’s deepest protective instinct.Serialized in The New Yorker and published in book form in 1957, Pnin brought Nabokov both his first National Book Award nomination and hitherto unprecedented popularity.

[tolstoesky]

Raskolnikov: I know a lot about criminals and the criminal mindset. For example, one of the most frequent things criminals do that makes them get caught is return to the scene of their crime.

Raskolnikov: So obviously, I returned to the scene of the crime.

[yvehattan]

Nikolai Gogol (the author)

[tapokuwu]

Something weird, but okay 😕. The main thing is that he is happy❤️❤️❤️.

Что то странное, но ладно 😕. Главное что он счастлив❤️❤️❤️.

[freeartzombie]

Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Insulted and the Injured"

[queenlucythevaliant]

Do you ever get so overwhelmed by all the books that you want to read that you're convinced that one life could never, ever be enough?

[girlmetamorphed]

people often talk about how dostoevsky’s characters are constantly sabotaging themselves, seeking suffering But Also pleasure and how paranoiac they are and that all of this might be rooted in their need to feel they have control because of all the trauma they have endured, which i agree, but have you also considered that most of these characters are in their 20s ?

[loiladadiani]