alt Hacker NewsRussian literature is based on suffering. Someone always suffers - either the protagonist, the author or the reader. If all of them are suffering you have a masterpiece of Russian literature.
I guess it is because it prepares you quite well to suffer endless corporate memos.
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grey-area • today at 7:32 AM
Very droll.
It does unfortunately fit most of the examples I can think of. Even in comedy like Gogol people suffer.
konart • today at 9:21 AM
I understand where you coming from, but both Russia classics Soviet and modern authors have decent comedy pieces.
Not to mention works that are just not about suffering but life.
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> suffer endless corporate memos
I think classic russian literature can be everything, but not an exercise in formal double-speak incantations.