Sep 22
The Student Batkolnikov
It sort of works, somehow. Though Robin as a Russian hooker is kind of stretching it.
Then the Dostoyevsky fans wade in:
you americans are so stupid. 85% of your nation are retards and that is your own statistic. you think all of you are so dump because of the major evil? no. you are so dump because you have no culture, only comics.
It should be noted, though, that not all Russians are enamoured with Dostoyevky. Vladimir Nabokov:
Dostoevski, who dealt with themes accepted by most readers as universal in both scope and significance, is considered one of the world’s great authors. Yet you have described him as “a cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar.” Why?Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoevski as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist. He was a prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. I admit that some of his scenes, some of his tremendous, farcical rows are extraordinarily amusing. But his sensitive murderers and soulful prostitutes are not to be endured for one moment—by this reader anyway.
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