The Russkies Can Write a Good Fucking Novel

[lavender]

Discuss.

 

[KillerMuffin]

They make good borscht, too.

 

[lavender]

Their liquor ain't half bad either.

 

[modest mouse]

I am not familiar with any good Russian novels about fucking, or erotica in general.

 

[lavender]

You're not fun.

 

[REDWAVE]

Mad Feodor

My favorite Russian novel is Crime and Punishment, by Feodor Dostoevsky. The existential killer, Raskolnikov, an impoverished student, commits a murder essentially just to find out what it's like to take another human being's life. He is then hounded mercilessly until he cracks and confesses by the philosophizing detective, Whatshisname.

 

[miles]

Their dressing is to die for.

 

[lavender]

I want a tacky Russian fuckslut as an avatar.

 

[70/30]

I've lost my 1000+ page patience---I read Borges' Labyrinths (quintessential Borges story, The Library of Babel) http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/library_of_babel.html over and over. Sometimes fast, sometimes slow. Sometimes wide awake, sometimes almost asleep. The same with Cesar Calvo's The Three Halves of Ino Moxo. Turgenev's ultrashort Mumu and Tolstoy's The Godson http://www.ccel.org/t/tolstoy/23_tales/htm/vii.v.htm are profoundly short enough for multiple views.

C&P and TBK are perfect---I just have to wait a while to read them again. Maybe when I'm old and settled I'll give WP and AK another read and remember times past.

 

[Weevil]

I've always been a big fan of that Steven Kingski.

 

[KillerMuffin]

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