Was he right /lit/?

>>9760931
>[...] is the best [...] who has ever lived.

no

>>9760931
intimidated? norm is the funniest but he really is a pleb

>>9760931
I forget where I read this, but I read somewhere that among the collected opinions of a bunch of notable literary authors, Shakespeare was regarded most often as the greatest English language writer, and Tolstoy as the greatest writer among all languages. I will try to find the source.

>>9760931
Who is the best writer who ever died?

>>9760931
he was a good writer but kinda had shit opinions

w&p has higher peaks than AK but has his stupid stuff about history which can be fairly easily critiqued. AK some say is perfect but the more i reread it the less i care about anna and vronsky.

kreutzer sonata is underrated, hadji murad is overrated, ivan ilych is probably his most perfect. his stuff on religion is overrated

>>9760965
Eh, I think I found it, it's kinda dumb. Take this kind of clickbait article with a grain of salt. https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/01/the-greatest-books-of-all-time-as-voted-by-125-famous-authors/252209/

>>9760978
dang, a lot of correct opinions are in this post

>>9760972
Dosto for sure

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>>9760978
The pleb is strong with this one

>In reading any of Shakespeare's dramas whatever, I was, from the very first, instantly convinced that he was lacking in the most important, if not the only, means of portraying characters: individuality of language, i.e., the style of speech of every person being natural to his character. This is absent from Shakespeare. All his characters speak, not their own, but always one and the same Shakespearian, pretentious, and unnatural language, in which not only they could not speak, but in which no living man ever has spoken or does speak.

>>9760997
t. i love hadji murad because harold bloom told me to

>>9761022
i like tolstoy a lot but who gives a fuck, man

just sit back and enjoy shakespeares double adjectives

>>9761022
who wrote that plebish thing?

norm thread?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_RKqQXwcWQ

>>9761022
Is it really possible for 19th century Russian man to decide whether or not 1600's English is pretentious?

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>>9761022

t. jealous of Shakespeare

>>9761022
>realism is the height of art in language
YUCK

>>9761057
My sides holy fuck
Norm really is great

Macdonald, Norman. Feeble, second-rate. His shaggy dog antics conceal a uniquely lazy strain of conservatism. Let him protest charges of anti-humor by all means, but his Canuck sneer and lunar physiognomy betray him. Timid in the large sense.

>>9761075
Reddit is that way buddy >>>reddit

>>9761075
"no"

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>>9761075
Is this a "Nabokov critique" format? I hope to see more of these in the future.

>>9760978
>>9760993
>samefagging pleb
>doesnt mention tolstoy's objectively best work (because he hasnt read it)

go back to r/books

>>9761120
im not that guy, what do you think his best is?

alyosha the pot?

He wasn't even the best 19th century Russian writer

>>9760931
No.

>>9760931

clever pun as facts aren't intimidating

>>9760931
It's always subjective.

>>9760931
It was clearly Dostoevsky.

>>9760931

>WRITERS EVER LIVE EXCEPT THROUGH THEIR WORKS

posting a tweet on /lit/ get rekt this is absurd

the best
ever lived
some people
intimidated
fact

will it blend/

>>9760978
>kreutzer sonata is underrated, hadji murad is overrated
>his stuff on religion is overrated
underated t b h

>>9760931
Why do people to think that their opinion on someone matters to others?

>>9760931
Absolutely correct one hundred percent as far as I'm concerned

You can at least make the case for Tolstoy being the best writer; only true plebs deny this