Why do Russians have the best prose?

Starvation.

Their keen familiarity with human suffering. A bloody history marked by political instability. The stark contrast between a largely uneducated, rural population and the educated elite who had conformed to an imported, European culture. Living in a giant, frozen wasteland. A deeply ingrained religious tradition. Etc.

No one will ever explain how that little country in the nineteenth century produced FIVE writers we read today. It's astonishing.

"Cyka blyad"
- Russians

>>8866508
>says the faggot who reads translations

>>8866508
Most Russian authors and intellectuals were either Christian and or very familiar with the Bible which has arguably the best prose of all.

Do you know what? The Russians, they'd only be an eight o'clock breakfast for the Japanese.

>>8866552
>that little country in the nineteenth century
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire
>One of the largest empires in world history, stretching over three continents, the Russian Empire was surpassed in landmass only by the British and Mongol empires.

>>8866576
Not him, but the talent pool was small. Land mass isn't important when it comes to writers.

>>8866570
which japanese in particular?

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>>8866508
>thar road

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>>8866508
vodka is good for the brains

>>8866570
>>8866970
he was obviously talking out his ass

I misread prose as proles

>>8866576
That's the joke.

I don't know because I don't know russian but the sentences seem to go on forever.

>>8866508
They don't.

>>8866970
Probably Mishima, given which board this is