Favourite story by Dostoevsky

[Kyriakos]

Another of the authors i mostly read in my late teens, Dostoevsky's main body of work consisted of large novels. In the poll i will include all of the ones i have read, along with some of his greatest shorter stories
You can also say why you picked that particular work.

I chose the Pitiful tale, because it is quite short, around 50 pages, and i like smaller stories. It is about a person of high rank who is of the view that people of his social class should treat lower class citizents in a friendly and encouradging way. But one night he discovers that "in practice" this is not that easy

 

[holy king]

they may be good, but they're definitely not fun to read.

since i cant read russian anyway, i thus really dont bother reading him in translated versions.
started crime and punishment once, gave up.

 

[Kyriakos]

The novels are not really fun to read, no, but some of the shorter works are
You could look for a short story titled The Crocodile. It is about a sophist who gets swallowed up by a crocodile in a fair, and then becomes a better philosopher from inside the creature's belly (or at least he thinks so) Also i forgot the wonderful short story "dream of a ridiculous man". Definately worth a reading

 

[Lone Wolf]

they may be good, but they're definitely not fun to read.

since i cant read russian anyway, i thus really dont bother reading him in translated versions.
started crime and punishment once, gave up.

But you are aware that it makes you a brutish uneducated boar who insults the whole world literature by his disgusting behaviour, right? Right?

I confess that I've only read "Crime and Punishment".

 

[holy king]

what good is it to me if his style is great if i cant read it in russian anyway?

 

[REDY]

Crime and punishment is my favorite book at all.

 

[gugalpm]

I've read a lot of Dostoyevsky, but my favorite still remains the first book I've read from him - Crime and Punishment.

 

[Mise]

I've only read his short stories because the novels are too many words but of his short stories I like The Eternal Husband most. I think that's what it was called anyway

I also liked White Nights. It was like a bitter-sweet romance version of Notes from Underground.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

The Brothers Karamazov was a fantastic story. I also like Crime and Punishment a lot, but the Brothers was better.

 

[Kyriakos]

The brothers Karamazov were the first book by him i ever read, when i was 17. Infact i wanted to take a break from reading the magic mountain, by Thomas Mann, and so thought i could read another novel. But i never went back to the magic mountain, never finished reading it

 

[gugalpm]

I'm actually reading The Brothers Karamazov right now, that's why I can't choose it.

 

[Harvin87]

I love Raskolnikov and his ways. yesterday I bought a compilation of Dostoevsky which I intend to read sometime this year... I've only read crime and punishment to date.

 

[Kyriakos]

As with Kafka and the Metamorphosis, it seems that most people have read Crime and Punishment from Dostoevsky
Perhaps it is his most famous work.

 

[West 36]

Are you stalking me? I just recently bought the Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment, and I belive at least part of Notes from Underground is included in another book I got. So I'll have to get back to you once I'm done with those.

 

[Ecofarm]

As with Kafka and the Metamorphosis, it seems that most people have read Crime and Punishment from Dostoevsky
Perhaps it is his most famous work.

It certainly is. It's, like, a top 100 novel of all time. Brothers is not.


ps. Kafka is miserable suckage.

 

[Loppan Torkel]

Of those I've read, I'd rate The Brothers Karamazov as the best, then Crime and Punishment and last The Idiot which wasn't at all as good as the other two.
CaP had a more coherent and tighter story, but overall I thought TBK was more interesting and a greater work.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

At some point I'd love to read The Idiot, someone (Fifty, I think) said it was good.

 

[Integral]

Notes from Underground. I re-read it every January.

 

[gugalpm]

It certainly is. It's, like, a top 100 novel of all time. Brothers is not.


ps. Kafka is miserable suckage.

The Brothers Karamazov are considered Dostoyevsky's greatest work. Crime and Punishment is just not as huge - therefore more people have read it.

At some point I'd love to read The Idiot, someone (Fifty, I think) said it was good.

It's as good as anything Dostoyevsky has ever written.

 

[Agent327]

Crime and Punishment gives an excellent insight into the twisted reasoning of someone ending up becoming a murderer. It sticks in the mind.

ps. Kafka is miserable suckage.

That seems more to qualify your understanding of Kafka, I'm afraid...