Why Nabokov Couldn’t Stand Dostoevsky

Vladimir Nabokov, one of the most brilliant prose stylists of the twentieth century, stood in front of his students at Cornell University and told them something that stopped the room. He told them that Dostoevsky was a mediocre writer. Sentimental. Melodramatic. Morally pompous. An author of cheap psychological theatrics and shrill religious hysteria, whose characters were not human beings but cartoons of suffering, whose prose was not literature but journalism dressed in philosophical clothing. ------    • The most misread novel of all time | Why e...      • Notes from Underground: Dostoevsky's Guide...      • 7 Dostoevsky Truths You Can’t Outsmart      • Dostoevsky vs. Nietzsche: Two Men Who Made...      • The Literary Duel of the Century | The Ult...   Psychological autopsies of society, through literature. The books you were taught to read told you what they meant. This channel tells you what they diagnosed. Books of Radiance investigates the darker patterns of modern life through the writers who saw them first. Classic texts, one psychological concept per video, zero comfort reading. Not about reading more. About seeing more. If you're looking for book summaries, this isn't it. If you're looking for a mirror, stay. #BookTube #BooksOfRadiance #Literature #LiteraryAnalysis #ClassicLiterature #PhilosophicalBooks #BooksThatMakeYouThink #Authors #BannedBooks #ClassicBooks