Life Lessons from Russian Literature. Viv Groskop

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/mustreader

My TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@gregmustreader 

Collabs: mazdrid@gmail.com 

00:00 — Intro

0:51 — Tolstoy or Dostoevsky?

3:54 — How foreigners perceive Russian literature

16:01 — Why Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky are the best

22:20 — Canceling Russian literature

33:44 — Connection between Russian literature and politics

37:19 — Russian literature in the world

42:46 — Is Nabokov an American writer?

46:44 — Like Bunin

Tolstoy party or Dostoevsky party? Will Russian language and Russian literature be cancelled? Is it possible today for Russian writers to not care about politics? We discuss this and many other questions with Viv Groskop!

#tolstoy #russianliterature #dostoevsky