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Notcoded419 t1_jacx9ov wrote

That's kind of how Dostoevsky rolled. Everyone acts with a level of angst that makes 90s grunge look stoic.

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wordyshipmate82 t1_jadfbp4 wrote

Indeed, and I love Dostoevsky, but this is one of the main reasons that Nabakov was not a fan, and taught his Russian Lit students that D was a lesser Russian writer. I enjoy him more than Tolstoy, for instance, but I understand the critique.

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thrasymacus2000 t1_jae9tyo wrote

This is reassuring to me. OP is experiencing the exact same thing I went through. Every sentence is a long slobbering rambling soliloquy. I thought maybe novels were imitating theatre plays and so this is what people were expecting at the time, but I know other books from the time and much older that still read as more conversationally contemporary than Brothers K.

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