wordyshipmate82 t1_jadfbp4 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 5:16 PM

Reply to comment by Notcoded419 in [No spoilers] The dialogue in The Brothers Karamazov is giving me whiplash by FlyingPasta

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.

thrasymacus2000 t1_jae9tyo wrote on February 28, 2023 at 8:28 PM

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.