I think Dostoevsky's pain is very male, very much about the impossibility of achievement in a morally or socially perfect way. Tolstoy's pain, the too slow, too fast passing of time, the inevitable falling apart of familial and social structures, is female.https://twitter.com/questionaware/status/1209106012055252992 …
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Ah! My nongendered take tends to be that Dostoevsky is a hopeless caricaturist, while Tolstoy is capable of charitable interpretations. I think in general I prefer writers who like people since I am a person.
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Ah. I agree, but I basically find any writer who isn’t a polemicist depressing. Pure observation of the human condition is fatalist, and even when I respect the skill it makes me disapprove of the author.
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Dostoevsky seems to resonate with those who have a "writer's mentality" in one way or another
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