The DU Lounge

I believe you may be right about being more engaging when read aloud. I might have just been impatient, but I did like Dostoevsky, but I don’t know if my patience came from reading Notes From Underground and Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons first. I think it warmed me up to Russian literature of the era by being short and odd enough for my attention span. I know you don’t have to take sides, but Notes From Underground gave me more patience with Dostoevsky than Tolstoy. I should try Anna Karenina another try in audio form. I understand Austen and the Brontés sisters literary importance, but have not revisited them or Hardy, Conrad, Hawthorne, Melville, and others I’m sure. I have not read Kristin Lavransdatter, but your reply piqued my interest. I do like literature and recognize the 50 year old biases should be revisited, but there are so many novels I know I still want to read.