Why is Russian literature so good?

>>8995129
because russia wasn't completely commited to western literally tradition, but was starting to look west. being from the peripheria awlays help to come up with great stuff.
Borges argued that the Irish and Jews were succesful becasue they were not chained to any tradition.
Borges himself wasnt commited to argentinean tradition and wrote about retarded vikings and so on

>>8995147
>Jews were succesful becasue they were not chained to any tradition.
What did he mean by this

we don't speak russian so we never hear about the shitty russian authors

>Christian aristocrats in a crumbling society surrounded by oppression, warfare, and betrayal

They had everything art is born out of

>>8995150
Jews in America iirc, were able to transgress american cultural norms, just like the Irish in great brutain. similarily you have the Frech-algerian writers, Kipling and other examples.
im talking out of my ass btw :)

>>8995129

Because there is no truly good literature written without struggle.

And Russians have shitty lives.

>>8995150
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_ZTt_JQXRU

Why aren't there anymore great russian writers? I mean was Bulgakow really the last one whos work was worth reading?

>>8995333
what might have happened in the 20th century to disrupt the pattern of russian art?

>>8995176
Subs are garbage but the part about "the rivering waters of, hitherandthithering waters of. Night!" Is beautiful. Listening to what he has to say show what a great mind is required to really enjoy and make so much from a work this complex.

>>8995333
Because of Soviet HEAVY focus on cinema, I guess.

>>8995333
Check out Dovlatov, Pelevin, and the Strugatsky brothers.